Cartoons
Bennet Omeke – 2019 Poll Budget
In this piece, Bennett Omeke comments on the controversy about the 2019 Polls Budget between the executive and the legislature. While the controversy was still ongoing in June, the Senate adjourns plenary till September.
In this cartoon, the caricatures of President Buhari (with a hat and pair of glasses) and Mr. Adams Oshiomole (the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress – APC) are seen fishing.
The fish they are trying to catch is the caricature of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Saraki, on the other hand, seems to know what the fishermen are trying to do. Unlike the fishermen, he looks unbothered. He is smiling.
Bennett Omeke – PDP, APC
Here, Bennet Omeke captures the reality of party politics in Nigeria in creatively, as one would expect. This piece highlights a usual cycle in Nigerian politics: politicians defecting from one party to another.
However, instead of policians, Omeke uses worms. There are two apples. An infested and a rotten one labeled PDP (People’s Democratic Party) and a soon-to-be-rotten and -infested one labeled APC (All Progressives Congress).
The worms – the politicians – have already infested and sucked vitality out of the rotten apple and now they are on their way to their next victim: the apple that is being infested.
The other part of the cartoon is a reversal of the first. It shows what happens after a cycle of infestation is complete. Another cycle begins.
Bennet Omeke – Towards 2019
Pot calling kettle black. Here are two men engaging in a mudslinging game. Each man has a bucket of mud beside him, dipping his hands into it, scooping some mud, and throwing it at his opponent. This is a classic example of what happens when politicians are preparing for elections. By all indication, these men look like members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition: the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
