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GOVERNORS ARE NIGERIA’S ALBATROSS – ACTIVISTS


In the backdrop of the sad news that Nigeria has finally landed in recession with skyrocketing food prices and closure of major Airlines, the appeal by President Mohammadu Buhari to Nigerians for patience does not seem to hold water.  The reason is simple: Nigerians have exhausted their patience.  A report said: the appeal is patently misplaced and inherently shallow; regarded more as semantics, a contrived Public Relations Stunt bereft of human face.  “For 34 years, that’s what they have been saying; they struggle for political office and at the end when they get it, go to sleep”, charged Mr. Afe-Ikaghe, a Lagos based activists.  Now with a bag of beans rising from N18,000 to N27,000 and rice hitting N20,000 from N10,000 the time for handshake is over.

Taking a hard look at the administrative performance of appointed officials, the activists became enraged: “The nation has been robbed, raped and forced into recession; they are never sincere, dishonest and uncaring”, he told the Expose News.

However, looking back, the nation has indeed been subjected to raw deals. From 1983 to present day, it has been a litany of failed promises, abandoned projects, probes upon probes, from which the nation has never really recovered.

Against this frightening spectacle, Buhari, the activist’s feel, ought to have dwelt more on Nigerian Governors who still behave as shylocks with their retinue of aides and convoys of expensive cars.  “Shouldn’t Buhari have told the Governors the truth to cut down on their expenses rather than appeal to the masses? Mr. Ikhaghe questioned

Nevertheless, that appeal is now old story; with the well documented fact that unlike before, the maxim that a “patient dog eats the fattest bone”, has been rendered impotent, Nigerians may no longer want to remain hewers of wood and drawers of water.  They now know that it is all smokescreens when they hear of such vocabulary; that the times they waited only produced untold hardship, poverty and hunger.  They now know that politicians speak from both sides of their mouth; that while Rome burns, they Jet out for shopping extravaganza.  “So now, without Governors cutting down on their outrageous life styles, dubious borrowing, Nigerians must brace up for the worst”, disclosed Mr. Ikhaghe.  And evidently, that is the picture on ground.







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