 The results of the last presidential and governorship elections inquire state dealt another blow to the Syracuse dynasty. On imaginably the governorship election became the second successive electoral defeat for the former senate president and the living head of the Syracuse dynasty Dr. Bukola Syracuse since he inherited the structure of his late father. Now the election which returned Governor Abdul-Rakman Abdul-Rakzak to power for a second term left Bukola Syracuse led PDP was only a state parliamentary seat out of 24 in a near repeat of the 2019 autogate which is in office enough tsunami where the all-progressive Congress had a clean sweep. According to a political scientist the election is gone and governance will commence on May 29. Now one of the mistakes of the Syracuse dynasty may have been that they went into their shell immediately after they lost the 2019 election and waited till another election was around the corner to come out. Well joining us to discuss this more is Biotto Shoumi he's a public affairs analyst. Mr Shoumi it's so good to have you join us good evening. Thank you for having me. Good evening. Yes this might not be the same you know a pedestal but this looks to me like a bush dynasty if we were comparing it to the American you know system but we've seen the father of this man create a dynasty a political dynasty of sorts where a lot of people are querying if it's dying off or they're losing steam over you know over the years especially with the big blow he received again after the just concluded election but let's just throw back a bit to the father of the former senate president Mr Syracuse. How do you think that he gradually got to where he got to to be able to have such a dynasty in choir state and how well have his children held up that dynasty so far? Yes what has happened to the Syracuse is in line with the loss of social development. It's not strange every good thing comes to an end at a point in time. It reminds me more of the Kennedy family in the United States which is a journey that traversed to leadership of the country down to Edward Kennedy himself being in the senate in the congress in America to the extent that only do you hear the Kennedys anymore. They have actually let the same before the bush the bush is actually to cover. Now with the Syracuse family we started with the father who was known to be philanthropist and also a politician. He started his political career and he became the leader of the senate. When he became the leader of the senate of course he was well done prior to that time and he was also keeping the company of the father P in choir state at that time and he was able to build a strong dynasty political family in a way that without the Syracuse backing you hardly can become anything in choir state politics. But at a point in time we had this challenge for power from the son. Bukola Syracuse actually challenged the father and he won. That was I became the inheritor of that very dynasty. Of course along with them you still have his Syracuse sister who is now in APC and you have his cousin who is also Syracuse who is also in APC. But along the line something snapped with the Otoghe rally. The Otoghe rallying cry was so powerful to the extent that the Syracuse were caught sleeping and the lost power to the the current incubation governor. Upon assumption of office Syracuse was not given a break in the sense that is it that there were allegations bordering on financial practices or a major robbery incident you know which one way or the other some aids of Syracuse were linked to it you know became so fatal to his political dynasty in a way that many of the his left hand decided to pitch tense with the opposition that it's with the ruling APC party in choir state. Since then he has even though he kept protesting his innocence and he has not been fined guilty or indicted in any court in relation to that robbery incident that happened in a fact. But it was politically fatally not to the extent that Syracuse did not have the time you know to even think of building his war machine because most of his associates were trying to keep some distance. So that was when the the the dynasty started unraveling up to the last election and at the last election what made it worse for Syracuse was the Tinubu bad wangong effect you know in choir state which is largely populated by the universe and they felt they had to align you know and support Tinubu. The other factor is also you know the the the family the family got splitted you have the the famous Syracuse and the cousin up where you know moving to APC while Bokola was left on his own with him on his return back to PDP and in addition to that there was also the role of Lime Muamed. Lime Muamed also played a major role in the sense that he tried to fight a battle with the governor. At a point in time many people in choir state disagreed with Lime Muamed and saw him as kind of trying to wage a battle and align with the Syracuse and because of that Bokola Syracuse it affected his political fortune to some extent and all these factors you know culminated in this second defeat of the Syracuse family. In reality we are beginning to see the end of that dynasty in my view. Wow there are some pundits who have said that he had he had made a major blunder uh that you know which was the beginning of the crash but then some are also saying that maybe if he decided you know to change or re-jig his leadership style that this might one way or the other you know bring him back to the top but what kind of change of strategy do you do for his dynasty just as you said could this really be the end? Yes Bokola or like the father Bokola is a very good politician very solid but he lacks the dexterity you know the political dexterity of the father and Bokola is not consultative in his approach like the father in the case of the father I remember you know people like Dr. Amuda Luku and so many other people in Kuala state the Madawaki of Iran so many of them are routinely consulted you know by Dr. Bokola Syracuse sorry but the Dr. Syracuse the father before making up his mind Dr. Lishola Syracuse on who to back and quite often he tends to back the popular candidate a candidate that seems to be more acceptable to the people in the case of Bokola Syracuse Bokola Syracuse you know wielded the big stick and decides um although it will be unfair to say unilateral or he tends to have his way and he does not have the same depth touch of the father in trying to get carry the people along he's seen rightly or wrongly has been the one taking the decision um in in a way that they did not think um he was consulting enough and that was a major problem for many people they could not do otherwise other than to tell Bokola what he wants to hear um so at the end of the day all these factors you know actually affected them Bokola a lot but is a very strong solid politician unfortunately he has lost touch with the realities in Kuala state. This would not be the first time that Senator Bokola Syracuse would be jumping ship like you said in your opener he has moved to the APC and back to the PDP now of course the PDP has back to back lost to the ruling party which is the APC and again still looking at ways that he can you know call his way back to the top um do we see him aligning with the president-elect in um you know years to come to one way or the other find his way back into you know the steam of things and and how will this help him to get back all of his loyal men or loyal soldiers yes um that is not impossible but the Bokola I know probably will push you know for a rebut of the big PDP because PDP needs to re-brand as a brand without doing that they may not be able to regain lost ground in the south south southeast and southwest and that could be fatal for any ambition to rule the country because PDP on its own has now proven to be incapable of even winning overwhelmingly the the votes in the north so therefore there may be the needs to re-brand the PDP which I suspect Bokola Sarake will push from if he is unable to achieve that he probably may end up feeling frustrated and going back to um APC I cannot see him going to join the labor party because these are guys who are used to power uh they like to be where the power is because for for for so many reasons he has to have the ability you know to dispense like you see it was a different thing when he was the senate president he was still able to do you know dispense like you see but this time around being out in the cold and if PDP fails to re-brand I cannot see Sarake remaining in PDP he probably would see more with the other two Sarakeis um in APC at the end of the day let's quickly talk about his shot at the president who we've seen him try many times I think in 2017 he pushed to also be a presidential candidate in the PDP of course they all ended up you know being won by Atikua Bubakahu again this time around was given the ticket even amidst all of the row and the misunderstanding within the party do we see him doing it again and does he really even stand a chance have a shot at the presidency and does he have the notoriety across the board and I'm talking about the north south east and west east and west of the country to be able to pull that weight for the PDP or do we see him just you know taking a back seat and pushing for someone else to run yes Sarakei is quite a very ambitious man nothing is wrong with that and he has tried to contest the price of PDP you know and he couldn't make any headway there it's not impossible that he's still not seeing the ambition to be the president of the country because what else remains for him after being the two-time governor of Karastit and in addition to that he had been the number three citizen in the country the Senate president so the only two things that may be attractive to him is either vice presidency or presidency so within this context he is probably because his state is located in the geographical zone known as the north even though he's not central he's more likely going to end up having to compare with somebody in future elections and that depends on whether he stays within the PDP if he stays within the PDP he probably will aspire to team up with a candidate from the south because I can also be not you know representing somebody from from the north you know to challenge Numbu in in the next election so we are likely going to have PDP now fielding somebody from the south but you might have Sarakei wanting to do the north and back up whether this will be acceptable you know to the caucuses in the north particularly in particularly in the core north which is the north west is a different matter because there are so many powerful gladiators from that zone who may also want to pair up with somebody from the southern part of the country to challenge Numbu in 2027 so all these are still up in the air a lot of it depends on what the PDP intends to do whether they are repranding and then what Sarakei intends to do whether to stay within the PDP or to move to APC moving to APC will spell you know a death knell it's like a death knell for his presidential ambition because Numbu is still there and it's from the south and then you have Shetima who is also from the north east so there's no way the party would dump Shetima for Sarakei so if he still has the presidential ambition or to be the presidency he probably will stay within the PDP and fight to get PDP to make it a new or a pointy game part well all that remains to be seen but I want to say thank you Biada Shoumi is a public affairs analyst always a pleasure to have you dig up some history and politics thank you very much for being here it's my pleasure thank you for having me all right great well that's the show tonight and I want to thank you all for being part of the conversation don't forget violence is never the answer to solving our problems in this country we can only solve all our problems in a peaceful manner I'm Mary Annico and have a good night