A crack is all it takes for the edifice of integrity to crash. Anyone in doubt should ask Farouk Lawan. The former leader of the cacaus of self-proclaimed integrity campaigners in the House of Representatives and poster boy of progressive politics has been stranded in a desert of political irrelevance since he was implicated in a bribery scandal that rocked the House.
Although he has been part and parcel of the political equation since 1999, Lawan rose to fame when he and his group took the then Speaker of the House, Patricia Etteh, to the cleaners over a $620,000 renovation scandal. Occurring at a time the nation was looking for credible leaders, the revelation instantly shot Lawan to the stratosphere of public adulation where he remained until he came crashing back to earth after he was implicated in a $620,000 bribery scandal involving oil magnate Femi Otedola.
Gone with the scandal was Lawan’s ambition to rule Kano State and even his bid to represent his constituency for the fifth time. Now abandoned by those that formerly paraded themselves as his friends and rejected by erstwhile supporters, he is now in every sense in political cocoon.
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