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Senior politician humiliated after younger lawmaker takes over his job

The Swahili people have a saying that when a "stupid" man gets enlightened, the elite are in deep trouble. The is true for a senior politician who chaperoned a younger lawmaker in the last parliament was thoroughly humiliated when the student became a master and elbowed him out of office.

We are whispers of how the senior politician was literally thrown out of his coveted office after his understudy upset tables and secured the seat through supermajority. In happier days the two would ride in choppers together but now they can’t see eye to eye the student became the master. In politics just like in nature there is no vacuum and neither are friendships supposed to be permanent

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