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SUMMARY
What this essay has achieved in the previous chapters is to discuss the presence of Satire in Omoni Oboli's , Love is War and Funke Akindele's, Your Excellency through the use of irony, humor, parody, hyperbole and sarcasm. Both films resonates issues such as inter and intra party conflicts, personal use of public funds, electoral violence, exploitation in Nigerian politics. Film influences individual perspective and propagates a means for the wider spread of satire. Both movies successfully run a social commentary on in politics. Although, politics in itself is broad, this films streamlines to those in government and a little of religion. Through Irony, truth on how power is shared and the process involved is conveyed. Through humor a means to be comfortable to laugh at this truth is created. Through parody, a comical representation of those in power is displayed. Through hyperbole, a means to exaggerate mediocrity in the political system. Lastly through sarcasm, the space to forge attacks to ridicule Nigeria politicians and their mode of operation. Aristotle opines that man by nature is a political animal and this essay resonates that.
