Understanding Fubara’s Opossum Strategy 

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Austin Tam-George


The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, seems to have a strategy for surviving political storms. We may call this the “Opossum Strategy.”


In the animal kingdom, the opossum survives through a combination of tact, patience, and strategy. When threatened by a pack of predators, the opossum collapses into stillness, mouth open, tongue out — pretending to be dead and even emitting an unbearably foul smell.

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