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Between Alex Otti and Okezie Ikpeazu, who is lying to us?
By Sunny Igboanugo
There are few names in Nigeria today frequently mentioned as performing governors. Alex Otti, Governor of Abia State is one of them. The echoes from the din in Umuahia are as loud as the Big Ben, the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, in the heart of London, which, by the way, chimed for the first time on July 11, 1859.
I haven’t heard anyone list the names of five performing governors in the country without mentioning his name, no matter from what political nuances and convictions. In fact, in most cases, he comes in as number one or two or at the worst, the third position. I have also seen several images, either in form of videos of jubilating crowds of people cheering him to project sites or at other auspicious occasions.
Let me digress. I must confess that I have lost touch with the God’s Own State in recent years. Indeed, I was a friend of the house in the Abia State Government at a point in time. I became a regular face from the time of Orji Uzor Kalu. I was there when the great transition happened, through the Progressives Peoples Alliance (PPA).
In fact, I was so close that I broke the news about the formation of that party, because I was fed the information by the aides of ex-governor, now a Senator. A caveat: I wasn’t particularly close to him. It was more of his aides. I recall it was after a breakfast with him in Lagos arranged by them that they broke news of the new party to me. Don’t forget that, that PPA went ahead to win two states in the South East – Abia and Imo.
Let me confess also my admiration of his politics superseded my interest in his performance in office, because I practically got sucked into his bold, courageous and fire-eating pronouncements and moves on the political scene at that time.
I was not alone. At a point OUK was the new genie of Nigerian politics. I recall that particular scene in 2001 at the Cinema Hall of Hotel Presidential Enugu – how people soaked each other’s sweat just to listen to him. It was his lecture at that year’s edition of World Igbo Day, organised by the World Igbo Congress (WIC), a powerful group propelled by the Igbo intelligentsia based all over the world.
The only person I know, who came close to pulling that unique spectacle was the late Ikemba Nnewi, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. But not even the Ikemba’s outings at the historic Mkpoko-Igbo forum, to rouse Ndigbo to the issues of the 1995 constitutional conference, considered, one of his most memorable, post civil war, matched the OUK crowd at that event.
Then OUK went ahead to prove his mettle more when he practically pulled off that historic feat of snatching two states from the jaws of the lion the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the political moving train crushing everything on its way at that time. So daring was he that his men practically chased away some of the goons allegedly sent by then President Olusegun Obasanjo to arrest his mother. Who has forgotten that encounter believed to be men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the gun duel that reportedly ensued in Umuahia?
Is it not terribly saddening today that the selfsame OUK cuts the picture of a beggarly, grovelling, political lackey. When I see him these days, grabbing every opportunity for photo-ups with President Bola Tinubu, who was his classmate at the College of ’99 governors, it convokes a feeling of pity rather than outrage. When I see him, these days swearing on how high he could jump to please, first Muhammadu Buhari, and now Tinubu, I repeat the biblical dirge of Jonathan to Absolom – how are the mighty fallen?
Back to my tale. My last touch with the state and its government, was under Theordore Oji, Kanu’s successor. It was a natural transition from the former boss to the Chief of Staff (CoS). But unlike OUK, whom I connected through his aides, my relationship with Ochendo Global, was more personal than official. But then I lost touch with his government midway, when I left journalism for a while to answer some national callings.
So, to a large extent, I knew what the issues were in Abia quite well from the foregoing. One of them was what to do with Aba. In fact, during a media tour, which was my first visit to the state, reporters had taken OUK on over the sorry state of Aba, the commercial city and the most prominent town to boot. The perennial flooding of the town is such that visitors at Ariaria Market, practically had to swim in and out.
The convenient answers throughout the times the issue was raised, was that the solution was between the axiomatic devil and the deep blue sea. I remember Kalu telling the reporters on that trip that for the problem to go, hundreds of houses had to be pulled down – a politically impossibility – because their owners built on water channels created to evacuate the flood. There was a particular metaphor that captured the gory situation called – Ukwu Mango.
Because of this almost impossible situation, the only solution was to desilt the drainages to create temporary reliefs. Of course, Ochendo Global, did not have a better story either. Now, I don’t know how much the situation has changed and what the new issues are today. I’ve already explained from the outset.
My question therefore. Has that problem been solved or is it that the people have resigned to their fate of finality and no longer regard the nightmare as a problem? If yes, by whom? I want to know because that is where I want to jump in on the current ear-splitting verbal warfare between Otti and Okezie Ikpeazu, his predecessor. In the whole noise of the recent engagement, I’ve heard nothing about that hitherto monumental problem.
Now, it is my contention that whoever of the two that achieved the feat of ending that nightmare, is the true hero of Abia. On the other hand, if that eyesore is still lingering amid the clatter of these bitter tongues none of them deserves any accolade yet as the hero.
Now I come into the main issue that began with that sizzling interview with Rufai Oseni aired on The Morning Show, the breakfast programme on ARISE NEWS, television network. Otti had shocked the world with three major outrageous revelations – that Ikpeazu commissioned an uncompleted government house – left N192billion debt and spent N10billion on a non-existent Abia Airport.
Naturally, only an inanimate object would keep silent, having been so bespattered with the paintbrush of shame, especially with the traction the expose generated across the globe. So, Ikpeazu moved, quite appositely too. Since then, his men have been up and about telling the world how foul a lair Otti is. John Okiyi Kalu, spokesman of Ikpeazu’s government as Commissioner for Information, on the same programme described the governor as high on propaganda and short on performance.
Yet, on Newsnight, another programme in the same station, Eric Ikwuagwu, spokesman of the PDP in the state, was also vibrating, echoing the same sentiment. His own conclusion was that Otti should move on with the business of governance, move Abia forward from where he met it rather than lying to the people.
Now, I ask, why would Ikpeazu commission a non-completed building as completed? Isn’t that fraud on its own without Otti saying so? Kalu’s explanation that his boss deliberately left the uncompleted part, so that the next governor would fix it according to his taste, is puerile. That house does not belong to a particular governor. Yes, if Otti came in and decided to change anything or remodel the house, it would be solely his remit.
Would the UK leave number 10 uncompleted so that the next Prime Minister would fix it or the White House be left fallow for the next President? Such untenable if not uncharitable thinking could only come from places like Nigeria, where people in authority in scant regard to the feelings of the people just utter anything. Imagine!
Conversely, did Otti spend N5billion to fix his own private residence in lieu of moving into the government house? Isn’t that a greater fraud if it ever happened? What would happen in other climes if a governor spent just N1,000 of government money in his private estate? What happened to Boris Johnson? Why did he resign as British PM? Was it not for just sharing drinks at the private garden of his residence during COVID-19 lockdown?
Now, imagine what N5billion could do to that government house. If truly Otti is guilty as accused, he is surely worse than the Ikpeazu. Why should the official residence of a Nigerian governor be more majestic than that of a UK PM? On what basis. Would a Peter Obi spend government money in fixing his private house? Is it that Otti is not a true apostle of the Labour Party (LP), presidential candidate?
Regarding the N10billion audio airport, I find it funny that the only defence from Ikpeazu team is the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), looked into the matter and exonerated the former governor. EFCC? Does that body smell roses itself? If it were such a credible body to be relied on, how many of Nigerian politicians would be walking the streets as free men today? We want to hear a more credible explanation.
This is also true of the debt profile of the state. Did Ikpeazu really leave N192billion debt. Borrowed from where? How? When? These are questions that must also be answered from both sides. Gratifyingly, Otti, the financial engineer he is, claims he is wiping the state clean of the debts. But that doesn’t mean that the public would be denied of the truth.
This is also germane in the celebrated Aba Port Harcourt Road Otti has just completed. Did he actually spend N36billion on the project? If yes, why so. The Ikpeazu team raised a relevant question in this regard to wit: why would a 17 kilometre road in Port Harcourt with a swampy terrain be awarded for N30billion and this one of less than six kilometres, as they claimed, with a more clement topography gulp such a whopping figure?
But come to think of it, why should there be such a sharp difference in the image of the two dramatis personae in this matter? Why would Otti be maintaining his place in the top 11 of Nigerian governors today while Ikpeazu could not even make the reserve bench? Who are these Abia people we see in the streets daily celebrating him like a god? Are the images AI-generated?
I heard Kalu, say that his boss, Ikpeazu deliberately refused to hug the media by choosing the let-my-record-speak-for-me model. Now, has that record spoken? If yes, where? If no, why not? Is the media Otti’s real niche? Is that the advantage he has over his predecessor. Who indeed is high on propaganda and short on performance? Otti or Ikpeazu? Who amongst them fixed the Aba flooding menace? Somewhere lies the lies and the truth as well.
My name is Sunny Igboanugo and I’m The Tiny Voice!
By Sunny Igboanugo
“If you woke me up today and put the question – who is the most patriotic businessman in Nigeria in recent history – the answer will pop-up out instantly – Mike Adenuga! I won’t even have enough time to wipe my drowsy eyes or clear my head out of the sleepiness. It is an answer that has lived in my sub-conscious for years.”
These were my exact words last year. I wrote those words out of a thankful heart to celebrate the multibillionaire, whom, I have just learnt, also goes by the sobriquet – The Chairman or The Great Guru – thanks to Uche Nworah – Ezeudo Ozonmkpu of Enugwu-Ukwu na Umu-Nri – a guru himself in many respects – who has just delivered a heartwarming dissertation on the telecommunications magnate from an insider’s perspective.
I also wrote those words out of great pains and immense regrets that The Great Guru doesn’t own a refinery – just yet – because if he did, Nigerians would not be subjected to the hellish, harrowing and nightmarish experience they are forced to undergo today by the present-day shylocks playing in that field. I won’t name names. Take your tongue and count your teeth.
Just as I commented on Uche’s emotion-laden essay on his ex-boss, if Mike Adenuga owned a refinery today, Nigerians might not be buying petrol above N300 per litre. Reason is he would have found some magic to get around all the arguments offered by the shylocks that have made them continue to see shege banza as the cost of the product, which has remained central to their very existence continue to soar.
You might dismiss this as foolhardiness or ignorance. But I have my reasons. As I wrote last year – Mike Adenuga, has done what I have never seen any other Nigerian do in my long years on earth – sacrifice profit for the benefit of the masses. The introduction by GLO of per second billing in Nigeria, years ago, is the reason you and me are not swimming in the pool of our own tears today.
It was the game-changer that actually put telephony in the hands of the ordinary people – the reason that you could be calling your mother in the village from as far as the UK, US and even China, outside Nigerian cities of Sokoto, Osogbo or Umuahia.
Else, were it not for this move, GSM, would still remain a big luxury like the days of the 090 – naught nine naught – days – telephony will still be a status symbol in Nigeria today – not because of the actual global cost implications – of course neighbouring countries like Togo, Ghana and Benin Republic – far less endowed – had been using it for years – but simply because the shylocks had cornered it.
Remember all the excuses they had offered on why per second billings were impossible in Nigeria. Don’t they sound similar the arguments being made about fuel today. Aren’t they same as the reason for why the cost of owning and maintaining DSTV is higher in Nigeria than any other country the services exist?
Now don’t get it twisted. I was one of the highly privileged here. For one, I wasn’t subjected to some of the hard experiences some people went through. Sampler! Less than a week GSM came into Enugu, I was sitting at 23 Edinburg Street, office of The Guadian, when some gentlemen walked in and handed me a package containing a GSM handset, SIM card package and scores of N1.500 recharge cards.
This was at a time anyone who wanted to key into the new status symbol would go to the courts to swear affidavits, return to the banks to pay a whopping N25,000 – close to N1million in today’s reckoning before being allowed to purchase a GSM SIM card. I didn’t go through the riguours. That was even long before GLO made it to the scene.
So, as a typical Nigerian, I ought to be grateful having a place in the “I better pass my neighbour” list in this regard. But the sheer thievery that followed would not allow that. You know in those days, these shylocks configured their billing to the model that if you generated a call you paid and if you received a call you also paid. This was the level the got. That was until the advent of GLO that changed those thieving models.
I had been wondering why Adenuga chose that game-changer model, which had been declared IMPOSSIBLE before then. Recall that it took the other networks some months to adjust to the per second billing which they must have taken more out of the force of business losses than compassion for the people or change in their original business environment to adjust. For all the variables and excuses they had cited for their shylock behaviour were still in place when they began to copy GLO.
So, I could relate with Uche when he wrote these words: “The Guru is the most kind and greatest benefactor that I know. He gifts, gives, and ‘dashes’ staff, friends, associates and others cash in naira and foreign currency, cars, watches, jewelries, choice drinks and other items. No wonder Dele Momodu uses the phrase ‘the spirit of Africa’ to describe him.
“I am a great beneficiary of his magnanimity as a staff. Not only does he pay above market salaries, he also gives staff money ‘under the table’. The special word for this is in Globacom is ‘stoning’. It is common to hear staff saying; “Mr Chairman ‘stoned’ A & B’. When you are ‘stoned’, you are not expected to tell the other person. It is frowned at in the system to avoid unsettling those who were not ‘stoned.’
Mr Chairman is famous for giving people gifts, even people he doesn’t know, but reaching him to thank him becomes impossible. He does not expect a thank you and also usually doesn’t expect any return favours. He once told us a story during a meeting, of how when he started making money newly, he started buying Rolls Royce cars and other luxury cars.
“He said after sometime he began to realize the vanity in such purchases, so he distributed the whole collection among traditional rulers nationwide. It is a known fact that many people have become multimillionaires just from Mr Chairman’s stoning alone.”
Who else could have chosen that route rather than teaming up with the shylocks to make mega bucks than a man with such a large heart. Without him, Nigerians would probably still be paying as much as N300,000 for SIM cards and cost of calls would still be hitting the rooftops for such mundane, obtuse and criminal reason(s) like – telephony is an international business.
Or haven’t you heard so in DSTV, in petrol and other commodities – as if Nigeria is a different world! So, thank you Uche Nworah. Now we know! I hear it is The Chairman’s birthday, Today, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. May I join the world in saying to the The Great Guru: Hhappy 73rd! We won’t forget.
My name is Sunny Igboanugo, I’m The Tiny Voice!
All over the world the media are always among the first line of victims whenever and wherever democracy dies and dictatorship or autocracy is enthroned. Through the emasculation and asphyxiation of free speech and or freedom of speech, the media become the immediate target in such circumstances.
From the look of things, I don’t think Nigerian journalists are at home with this reality. No! Not just yet! I don’t know why it seems so. But I could hazard some guesses and build up some scenarios which I believe could suffice in assessing the situation.
Perhaps, it is because many of those who lived this reality in the last days of military dictatorship in Nigeria, have since exited the profession, climbed to higher grounds or just receded to the background, as consequences of natural sequence of events where the old is supposed to give way to the new.
Perhaps, it could be the direct result of the evolution in the profession – one of them – the introduction of electronics – if not the substantial or even total reliance on it as news-gathering instrument, which has made the job less cumbersome – thus introducing a pattern of ease in this regard.
Perhaps, it could be the direct consequences of the dearth, diminished impact and even subdued relevance of the print media, which led in the past, now taking a back stage in the new reality of the dominance of the electronic media.
Most probably, the influence of the social media has played a fast one in determining the direction of the industry to the extent that it is now the main source of news even for the traditional outfits, as much as it serves substantially as a distracting, if not distabilising factor.
But whatever it is, either singularly or by a collection of these factors, there is evidence of a demonstrable detour or bypass of the traditional role the media played in Nigeria that helped to shape its history – including dragging it out of the dungeon of military rule into the globally-acceptable arena of what is supposed to be democratic ethos.
Tempered by the new realities of the current generation, the Nigerian media have not only lost the fight in them but had their fangs and claws so smoothened that they now end up as instruments for caressing the patrons and purveyors of bad behaviour the tore at and clawed deeply in the past.
In other words, they have lost the plot. Otherwise, how could the media watch Nigeria suffer this level of degeneration after its chequered history of practically fighting with a million dark spirits and other anti-democratic forces to extricate itself from the vice grip of military rule?
It takes the Nigerian media which has degenerated into an insufferable degradation and complacency to watch the country gravitate towards a one-party state and pretend that they have no role in stopping the drift. Such never happened in the past.
Before 1999, the Nigerian media fought a bloody war against the military, beginning with the brutal era of the late Muhammadu Buhari, who after emerging the Head of State in 1983, launched the most draconian rule that had journalist caught in the crossfire, accentuated by the infamous Decree 2 of 1984, emblematised by the ugly fate of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor.
Then came the eight years of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) nicknamed Maradona fashioned after the immense dribbling skills of the Argentine legend, Diego Maradona, which ended with the disastrous June 12, 1993 presidential election saga. Again, the Nigerian media marked the gap-toothed General, man to man and never allowed him breathing space.
Then came the most brutal of them all – the Abacha era, where the war assumed a cataclysmic dimension with Sani Abacha, the merciless military despot that took over from IBB, receiving an equal amount of blitzkrieg as he unleashed on the media even with the clear mismatch of the arsenals on both sides.
It was this media that made Abdulsalami Abubakar, who took over from Abacha to bail with his feet, completing the transition programme that in chaos after 12 years in just one year and handed over to Olusegun Obasanjo, rather than share in the experience of his predecessors.
Even Obasanjo, throughout his eight years, had his feet under fired by a watchful media, culminating in another internecine war that saw the third term agenda, one of the features of that era, crumbling under its own weight and by the force of massive onslaught launched against it.
Today, where are the same media? They have turned out – at best – some beggarly, acquiescing and insipid entities – and at worst – some undiluted, unapologetic and rabid enablers of the same anti-people, anti-democratic forces they fought in the past at the risk of tears and blood. How tragic!
What do you see today? Rather than attacking the bad behaviour that threaten the polity, it is rationalisation. So, in 2023 when a totally staggered nation was reeling in pain as the courts churned out some of the wackiest, basest and most confusing reasons to support the mindless heist against the people’s mandate, it was a that told his bemused audience – public opinion is kilometres away from law.
Today, victim-blaming has become the answer to the clearly dangerous and life-threatening crisis of Nigeria’s drift to a one-party state where President Bola Tinubu could even emerge as a monarch, with limitless powers, if not limitless tenure.
Now, where is the agenda-setting function of the media? It is the function of the media to ferret out malfeasance, maladministration, and bad behaviour, without which governance will degenerate into an irresponsible cabal or a syndicate that perpetrates its actions in darkness. Unfortunately, that is where Nigeria is today. Else, when the media launched the fierce battle against the military, was it for the absence of the mistake on the opposite side. When the media joined the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) in its battle to revalidate the June 12 election and enthronement of full-blown democracy led by Moshood Abiola, was it that the patrons of that war were all blameless.
Yes! In spite of the large baggage Abiola, an acolyte of the military, this ugly record was pushed to the background in the interest of the bigger good – democracy. Going by today’s standard, Nigerian media would have focused on the Abiola’s association with the military and other faultlines as a basis to blame him.
Had that happened, where would Nigeria have been today? But because the media were focused on the larger picture, they in the realization that whatever touches the nose is already close to the mouth, they fought relentlessly. That is how we got here. Could that be said of the situation today.
Joseph Pulitzer once admonished: “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.”
How much has compromise – imbued by pecuniary, ethnic, religious and other primordial sentiments allowed this work? For how long do you blame INEC and the judiciary without blaming the media? There you find the danger – the TRAGEDY.
My name is Sunny Igboanugo, I’m the Tiny Voice!
By Sunny Igboanugo
The kite swooped on the herd of sheep and picked a lamb, soared above the skies onto its nest. The father asked one question – what did the parent say when you took their child. The kite replied – nothing father – they were just gazing at me in silence. Then the kites father made an order – return it immediately. Any parent that keeps mute when its child is in danger, has a more sinister intention hidden in his heart. The kite obeyed and returned the lamb.
The next day, the same kite swooped on a brood of chickens and picked one of them. Then the mother went hysterical flying from pillar to post in frenzied movements. On return, the father again put the same question. This time, the kite presented a different picture, describing the shrieking cries of the mother-hen and how it tried to attack and failure to retrieve its chick, went into a frenzy.
Let’s have dinner, the father quipped excitedly. Danger is over. The parent has displayed every weapon in its arsenal. That is the reason chicks remain the main dish of kites till date. My father told me this story decades ago, which of course is one of the anecdotes that is as old as minds could picture. My father probably picked it from his own father.
Yet, the implication in terms of central message has never lost its texture, despite its longevity. Rather, it has become truer with time – be careful of that man with few words – refrain from attacking a man that has not offended you – never bear false witnesses. These are standard cautionary and globally accepted natural edicts, which when observed in breaches, could result in highly disastrous consequences.
Is it not intriguing how this reality has stung Omoyele Sowore like those wicked agbisi – only those who sat on the bare floors would relate with the brain-twisting, sharp and excruciating pains those black ants delivered through the bare buttocks of children – in our mother’s kitchens in those days?
Have you been watching Vincent Otse, alias Very Dark Man, recently? What do you make of the multiple arrows he has been aiming at the heart of the Revolution Now exponent? I have my people and both the optics and the import derivable therefrom could only taper towards a central reality – cow wey no get tail na God dey drive am fly!
It was a song, sung by the popular Prince Nico Mbaga – that legend of the 1980s, whose epic – Sweet Mother – still resonates centrally in the Nigerian music history even till date, long after he was gone. I think it was the flipside of that legendary outing that dominated the airwaves at the time.
Never had that song, which you heard in those days blasting from the record shops at Achapo Street – in Ajegunle – the popular centre for music records business or through the windows of privileged homes in the face me I face you compounds in the days when even the poor afforded stockfish – now a delicacy you could only enjoy the aroma from a distance if your income is not in six figures – days when even the local women looked at ice fish with disdain and derisively related it with the “poor” as Ozu Nwada. O! What memories! But I digress!
But before I walked too far and disappeared into those days when me, as a child sleeping on a mat at a one-room apartment at Number 14 Uzor Street, but still ate lavish meals which I must now struggle to offer my wards, I return to today’s reality to ask myself why this is happening before my eyes. Why must it be VDM that is now waging a war against Sowore – with whom he was only too cozy – just yesterday!
For months now, this selfsame Sowore, had launched a massive blitzkrieg against Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in the 2023 presidential election. In what is more of a cocktail of bits and pieces, odds and ends set of drivels rather than any form of articulated reasoning based on facts and figures, this same man, actually came out with what has now become his catchphrase – Obi is a packaged fraud!
Don’t bother to ask him for facts supporting his conclusion. The only one he supplied was that the former Governor of Anambra State, was hobnobbing with supposed thieves and brigands responsible for Nigerian woes.
Yet, this selfsame Sowore, conveniently left out his central role, and incestuous relationship with the same people at an auspicious period, which ended up in watering the ground for what he now complains about from the rooftops. Were it not for Sowore, there might not have been a President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu as APC governments – the worst era Nigeria has ever endured and currently cursed with!
Videos even showed him being celebrated nationally for this singular role. Yet, this is the same man, assailing Obi for keeping bad company! But that is what happens with the purveyors of anti-Obi sentiments. They inevitably meet a drought and are left with nothing more to rely on but contrivances. Where the well is dry, they import water tankers to try a rescue.
Where deceit fails, they try illogic, then subterfuge, half-truths, outright lies and then mischief as they meet more frustrations. Imagine a Sowore saying that Obi packed Northerners in lorries and sent them back to their homes. In Nigeria? At what period? The same Obi who built his personal and state security architectures around northern people – Northern Aide De Camp (ADC) and Norther Commissioners of Police throughout his eight years?
To Sowore, nothing is good enough! He even mocks Obi for saying that he owns only one house in Nigeria – a development, which elsewhere defines absolute personal contentment. Elsewhere, the fact that Obi could prove this claim is demonstrable evidence of reduced propensity for induced stealing and absence of hunger for corruption and therefore a call for celebration. But what do you have here? Spite, mockery and contempt.
Now, it is not like Obi’s records – public and private are hidden. This was a man, who even as a university student, had become so successful in business that his chain of buildings were used as bank branches – that at a point was one of the 10 richest men in the UK – in fact, one of the 8.000 richest men in the world – so the source of his wealth is not suspect.
In office as governor, this was the same Obi who took schools in Anambra State from number 26 to number one, starting from his second year in office by sheer dint of visionary leadership anchored on self-denial – the only governor in history that left a whopping N75billion in the coffers – capping it all with emerging as the best in the implementation of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
Now, if a governor attains the first position in this globally-accepted measurement instrument – covering all indices of developmental – physical infrastructure and policy frameworks for human capital development, what else defines excellence in leadership? Yet, people like Sowore will never be persuaded.
Now you know why! VDM has supplied you with the answer. Sowore is in business. His activism is business – his Revolution Now – business – attacks on Tinubu – business – Obi is a packaged fraud – business – presidential ambition business.
Not that the world didn’t know this. But coming from familiar quarters – given the relationship between the two – both erstwhile friends – it is only gotten clearer and better. It is even moreso when the further and better particulars is not coming from Obi, but a more virulent voice!
Now, what is said about fate? What does the law of Karma say again? How does a tailless cow deal with flies again? Sowore has given us the lead and VDM has given you the answer.
But hear the philosopher! Beware of your thoughts, lest they become words; beware of your words, lest they become actions; beware of your actions, lest they become habits; beware of your habits, lest they become character; beware of your character, lest it becomes your destiny! Nigerians, think!
My name is Sunny Igboanugo, I’m The Tiny Voice!
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