I slept early and woke up 2:34 am ET. I decided to call two sources to know what was happening on ground in Nigeria. With each sentence we exchanged, I grew more despondent. I saw all these happening over a year ago when I wrote; "Buhari Always Needs An Idiagbon." I think intensely about Nigeria, it probably is the reason why everything I predict happens.

Saraki is effectively an Iroko. An Iroko that takes daily sacrifice. Did I not say he is Buhari's first mistake? Now we know, given the sheer ennui of the Nigerian state. Saraki knows the game. Buhari will not gratify anyone, Saraki will and he does. With hungry Senators who came on board to milk the nation, they soon found out the gravy train has left the station. Saraki created scores of committee and bought their loyalty. He bought them SUV'S befitting their status. Without Ghana must go, he led the fight to make constituency project a percentage of the budget. Wetin remain? The Senators lined up behind him while Buhari gropes in the dark with Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari riding him like a donkey.

The fight for 2019 is on and it is not for the faint-hearted. It is going to be bloody! It will be fought with sabotage, treachery, subterfuge, blackmail and good old money. Where are those who wrote I belong to nobody for Buhari? They have mellowed! They ran for cover! This battle is not for small boys. It is for big boys with deep pockets. No stone will be left unturned.

Let no one tell me we have any power. We have power to choose with what money produces. Do you know how Buhari emerged? Were you a delegate? Money is the name of the game. If Kwakwanso had emerged, you would have voted him. The primaries is where the battle is fought. It is where the money gets spent. It is where power is deployed, the rest is cakewalk.

Buhari has the heart. We elected him. We also elected the legislators. In thinking out this update, I went into my knowledge of human anatomy.  I thought of the heart and its valves. Saraki is Buhari's pulmonary valve. 

There are only two options open to Buhari now. Remove Saraki or make peace with him. Buhari can't do either because you can't give what you don't have. He loathes Saraki yet he is a man who relies on others to act. He does not have the ruthlessness and ruffle me not that is a critical requirement for a President. Buhari in his second coming does not have an Idiagbon. His Idiagbon is sitting on the sidelines enjoying the result of Buhari's folly and their folly.

Saraki will not stop. He will inflict maximum pain. A president that cannot issue query to his Chief of Staff will never take on a Saraki. I will reiterate here yet again. Integrity alone is not enough to govern. That is the tragedy of our pyrrhic victory of 2015. A defeat in victory.