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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.
Lito Silva – Bloco da Oposição Parlamentar
Exclamations from the opposition group of: “Stop wasting our country’s resources!”, “We live poorly!”, “Lots of Corruption!”, “The people are suffering”, “Too Much war”, “Social justice!”
The seated giant figure says: “It’s okay, it’s okay, we’re going to finally approve a measure to improve the rights of ALL deputies.”
One man from the opposition group: “Huh…! But… What about the people?..”
Opposition group: “You want to throw us out?!”, “What’re you doing?!”, “Those are the guys embarressing parliament!” “Savimbista!!” (referring to the leader of the UNITA military faction, Jonas Savimbi), “What people??! The elections haven’t even been validated…I don’t even have an office yet!!”
The seated giant figure: “Oh, oh, this opposition is always such a mess.”