It's quite like when the chef shows you a menu that has only fried rice and jollof rice as the only options and you decide to mess around and order for fried yam and noodles, just because.

Amosun's consensus produced a list of candidates that named him the party's flag bearer for the Ogun Central senatorial district (his second term as governor ends in May) to replace incumbent, Lanre Tejuoso, and also named a current House of Representatives member, Adekunle Akinlade, as the party's consensus candidate to contest in the governorship election.

The list also named dozens of others to contest for several elective seats in the state and in the National Assembly, leading to in-fighting in the state chapter about the fairness of the process.

APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, described the governor as an emperor who won't find a home in the party and the governor in turn called the former Edo governor a dictator and the stage was set for some really interesting war of words over the months that followed.

Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has been a divisive figure in the APC over the past five months

The Ogun chapter split into two factions and each eventually conducted primary elections that produced different sets of winners in almost all the categories. Even though Amosun was recognised as the party's senatorial candidate in the final list accepted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), his preferred successor lost the governorship ticket to Dapo Abiodun.

Akinlade soon left the APC to pitch his tent with the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) with the full backing of Amosun who has not made his support for him secret while engaging in a very public feud with Oshiomhole and the APC leadership.

[TL;DR] Basically, Amosun, a current APC governor, and flagbearer for the Ogun Central senatorial district, is supporting the party to win the presidential election, and (of course) senatorial election, but he's publicly campaigned against the party in the governorship election that has his preferred candidate contesting from an opposition party against the APC flag bearer. It's like how, if you stress your brain really hard, two plus two is sometimes equals to 22 and not four.

But everyone can agree that 4+4 = 10 [Twitter/@BuhariCentre]

Now that we're all caught up, let's talk about the insanity of Monday's rally that should deeply embarrass the ruling party.

The crowd of APC supporters, torn between loyalty to the party and loyalty to Amosun, became a tool of disgrace, pawns in the game of power played by megalomaniacs.

Long before Buhari's arrival at the venue, violence had broken out between Abiodun's supporters and Akinlade's supporters, for whom it makes no sense to be at an APC rally but let's roll with it for a minute.

The crowd only got worse as the program progressed. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, was the first to feel its stinging ire after he triggered the crowd's anger by suggesting that they should only vote for APC candidates in the forthcoming elections.

"This is an APC rally. I belong to APC and I'll vote APC, and I expect that for all of us who are here, we vote for the APC from beginning to the end," he said but was drowned out by chants of "APM!" from the crowd.

Former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, was the next to fall as he came on stage to beg the crowd, like a bunch of obstinate children, to toe the party line and only vote for its candidates.

The biggest jeers of the day were reserved for Oshiomhole who came on the stage to chants of "Ole! Ole! (Yoruba for 'thief')", a situation that only worsened when he mentioned Abiodun's name as the party's choice.

APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, was jeered by the party's hostile crowd at the Ogun State rally

He was soon swarmed by security operatives after a projectile was launched at the stage and his speech had to be brought to an abrupt end.

To save face, Amosun, the resident master puppeteer and Architect-in-Chief, made a return to the stage to appeal to the crowd to behave itself, like little children on a short leash, in the presence of the president.

"I beg you in the name of God. Please, our father (Buhari) is here, please don't disgrace me here," he told the unruly crowd.

When Buhari eventually made his way to the stage, he was more cautious about the big elephant in the room and, rather spinelessly, told the crowd to vote for whomever it chooses for the elections.

"I appeal to you to practice your civil rights to come out next Saturday and on the 2nd of March and choose whoever you like across the parties. This is your right and I have no problem about it," he said as the crowd cheered his tacit approval.

However, the president's next action, an unavoidable campaign rally ritual, was to raise Abiodun's hand as endorsement of his candidacy as the party's flag bearer.