First, it was a politically childish spat with the influential former President and hitherto one of the leading stakeholders of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olusegun Obasanjo, then an open face-to-face confrontation with the globally acclaimed former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamidu Sanusi over an alleged missing US$20bn of oil revenue and then to the factional and sectarian free-for-all within the ruling PDP leading to disaffection and mass defections of senators, governors and other leading members to the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).