i'm not going to say much today, not because the general news around the country has suddenly become positive (well, it has for our foreign affairs minister, chief maduekwe) but because only very few things are worth my thought process...
i have been accused severally of taking sides with governor raji fashola in a battle that is uneven...uneven because there is no way i can tell if, say, obanikoro would have done a better job were he elected governor instead. basically, i am told there is nothing to compare fashola with. and i agree...
i agree that in nigeria today, there is indeed nothing to compare fashola with. in the last one week, all i have heard about other government officials are
1. The Federal Executive council could not hold its weekly meeting because ministers had not submitted their memos for deliberation, as many of them hadnt returned from the sallah break (really? sirs, the rest of the country which you govern were back at their desks almost immediately after) and yes sirs, sallah did finish on Tuesday 22ns September...ask your P.A
2. yaradua is off to saudi arabia to commission a university (a university, people!)
3. minister of justice responds to every single allegation made by nuhu ribadu (nuhu: he wants to kill me; aondoakaa: he's a liar)...last i checked he's minister of justice, not the president's hitman
4. police only finally admits that kaduna secretary to state government was kidnapped after 48 hours because it insists that "it is wrong for anyone to declare someone missing until after 48 hours" (even when phonecalls demanding ransome had already been received by the man's family as soon as he was kidnapped)...right
5. Segun Oni, governor of Ekiti State brags about his ambition to ensure that each student of senior secondary level will have a laptop (yes sir, thats ekiti state's most pressing problem at the moment - laptops for all kids)
6. Fashola is busy in New York attending to the session on infrastructure of the Clinton Global Initiative (obviously seeking to attract attention to the infrastructure needs of lagos state by meeting potential global investors) - Front page Thisday 25/09/2009
Can someone then remind me again, why i should compare this great man who clearly has a vision for lagos state and remains unfaltering in his resolve even after this long, to anyone else? truth is, anyone with a strong godfather and a rich political party (think alao-akala, governor of oyo state) can become governor of a state, but it takes a true leader to actually conspicuously implement change in the state that he governs after being given the power to lead.
so please, i know its asking a little too much but i need you to express your support for this single functioning state official...the louder the noise we make, the more impossible it will be for the wrong godfathers or richer party to wrest the state in 2011 and turn it into a milking cow, ruining all the progress we have made thus far.
On Segun Oni, sir, you need to change your entire cabinet. they must be bereft of ideas to have advised you to make the comment you did about the laptops. Ekiti State is in dire need of a lot more than electronic equipment that will serve largely to distract the kids from paying attention to a boring subject like mathematics (okay, i admit that i hated maths)
Also, can somebody please tell Andy Uba that i can smell his desperation from all the way here in Lagos?!!! How many times will the courts entertain this raging apparently semi-delusional fellow who thinks that anambra's seat of government is his God-given birth right which he must occupy either which way?
By the way, God bless you Governor Oshiomole (Edo State), for removing your governorship toga and wading into this ASUU matter...once a union leader, always a public hero.
till tomorrow peeps...keep your ear out for more outrageous nigeria news. if its unbelievable, it can only be in nigeria.
i have been accused severally of taking sides with governor raji fashola in a battle that is uneven...uneven because there is no way i can tell if, say, obanikoro would have done a better job were he elected governor instead. basically, i am told there is nothing to compare fashola with. and i agree...
i agree that in nigeria today, there is indeed nothing to compare fashola with. in the last one week, all i have heard about other government officials are
1. The Federal Executive council could not hold its weekly meeting because ministers had not submitted their memos for deliberation, as many of them hadnt returned from the sallah break (really? sirs, the rest of the country which you govern were back at their desks almost immediately after) and yes sirs, sallah did finish on Tuesday 22ns September...ask your P.A
2. yaradua is off to saudi arabia to commission a university (a university, people!)
3. minister of justice responds to every single allegation made by nuhu ribadu (nuhu: he wants to kill me; aondoakaa: he's a liar)...last i checked he's minister of justice, not the president's hitman
4. police only finally admits that kaduna secretary to state government was kidnapped after 48 hours because it insists that "it is wrong for anyone to declare someone missing until after 48 hours" (even when phonecalls demanding ransome had already been received by the man's family as soon as he was kidnapped)...right
5. Segun Oni, governor of Ekiti State brags about his ambition to ensure that each student of senior secondary level will have a laptop (yes sir, thats ekiti state's most pressing problem at the moment - laptops for all kids)
6. Fashola is busy in New York attending to the session on infrastructure of the Clinton Global Initiative (obviously seeking to attract attention to the infrastructure needs of lagos state by meeting potential global investors) - Front page Thisday 25/09/2009
Can someone then remind me again, why i should compare this great man who clearly has a vision for lagos state and remains unfaltering in his resolve even after this long, to anyone else? truth is, anyone with a strong godfather and a rich political party (think alao-akala, governor of oyo state) can become governor of a state, but it takes a true leader to actually conspicuously implement change in the state that he governs after being given the power to lead.
so please, i know its asking a little too much but i need you to express your support for this single functioning state official...the louder the noise we make, the more impossible it will be for the wrong godfathers or richer party to wrest the state in 2011 and turn it into a milking cow, ruining all the progress we have made thus far.
On Segun Oni, sir, you need to change your entire cabinet. they must be bereft of ideas to have advised you to make the comment you did about the laptops. Ekiti State is in dire need of a lot more than electronic equipment that will serve largely to distract the kids from paying attention to a boring subject like mathematics (okay, i admit that i hated maths)
Also, can somebody please tell Andy Uba that i can smell his desperation from all the way here in Lagos?!!! How many times will the courts entertain this raging apparently semi-delusional fellow who thinks that anambra's seat of government is his God-given birth right which he must occupy either which way?
By the way, God bless you Governor Oshiomole (Edo State), for removing your governorship toga and wading into this ASUU matter...once a union leader, always a public hero.
till tomorrow peeps...keep your ear out for more outrageous nigeria news. if its unbelievable, it can only be in nigeria.
Comments
How can a whole president leave Nigeria to commission a university in Saudi Arabia? This is ridiculous! He also left at a time ASUU and SSANU are on strike; no university is presently working except the overglorified private universities. Do we really have a government in Nigeria?
The only prayer I have for Nigeria everyday is for the military boys to seize power, wipe off these sets of corrupt politicians and call a sovereign national conference for every nation (ethnic groups) to choose an all-embracing constitution. Otherwise, hell will continue to let loose.