Phd. Umar Ardo  The Axiom Restated Jesus of Nazareth, in the Sermon on the Mount, delivers one of history's most devastating political theorems: "Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Therefore by their fruits thou shall know them." (Matthew 7:17–20, NKJV)  2. This is not mere moralistic poetry. It is a claim about ontological continuity - the insistence that essence precedes and determines expression, that being conditions doing, that the architecture of a thing's origin constitutes the DNA of its destiny. The tree does not choose its fruit arbitrarily; the fruit is the visible syntax of the tree's invisible grammar. To examine the fruit is to perform an autopsy on the root.   3. What, then, are we to make of politicians of national stature, such as Gov. Peter Obi, Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso, Gov. Kabiru Gaya, Sen. A'ishatu Ahmed Binani and a host of othe...