Everywhere you look, the ruling classes, represented by the ruling party – at all levels – have become the enemies of the people – meaning the nation itself. It has taken over two thousand years for the people of the world to understand that nobody, and I mean nobody, can be trusted with power for too long without breeding corruption…
The former Director General of the Nigeria Stock Exchange, Dr Ndi-Onyiuke, was supposed to be charged last week, in Lagos, for embezzling, along with others, N3 billion. Her lawyers are still doing what lawyers do best – they are stalling the trial.
Let me use this occasion to re-assure Nigerians and members of the international community that we now have strong leads as to those involved in this terror war against Nigeria and Nigerians. I have directed security operatives to go after them no matter where they may be hiding”.
If you hope to see the end of this case you must have more than nine lives. It will most probably outlast the life of this administration and distract its attention for as long as it lasts. You can bet on that!
Let me use this occasion to reassure Nigerians and the international community that we now have strong leads to those involved in this terror war on Nigeria and Nigerians. I have directed security operatives to go after them no matter where they may be hiding…There shall be no sacred cows”.
I am filled with the “milk of human kindness” today, so, I am just presenting Cardinal Arogundade’s text message without comments. We had a lively discussion on the phone and we agreed to disagree. That is the beauty of democracy which “Third term to Life term”, as planned by Obasanjo, would have destroyed as Mubarak and Mugabe did. That the man could even think of the third term idea is horrible enough.
This article could have been titled “SECOND CHILDISHNESS SETS IN” and it would still be apt. Baba Iyabo who claims to be 76, but whose son, Gbenga, had also told us that “my father does not know his real age” and who on top of that parades two birthdays, is in “The last scene of all,/That ends this [his] strange eventful history,/ [Which] is second childishness and mere oblivion,/ Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything”.
One of the reasons we are getting nowhere in Nigeria lies in the fact that too often our conversations, discussions or disagreements are conducted with dubious data as the basis for discussion.
