Reacting to Gov Babatunde Fashola Speech at Timipre Silva's Birthday

Yet again, I see a man who hungers for a positive change but he is continuously more pained as he wishes, if he could muster power and authority to change things for the better.
I presume even in his own state he has tried to nurture, he has struggled through with the powers-that-be lurking behind; not to talk of his studied observance of the lack of the best utilization of authority and power at the centre of governance in Nigeria.

This is a man who sees himself as a student for life, no wonder the first place he rushed to- when he assumed office – was to meet the former leader of Singapore, the elderly Lee Kwan Yew to drink from his well of instructive wisdom. But he can only do much in Nigeria, sadly.The people in the middle east, far east and china do not have such low esteem, so they keep at it for improved well being of their people. They have found that the secret is to be true to themselves and not necessarily pretend to ape an ideology of the West which may not be amenable to their own cultural and traditional nuances.

I guess Nigeria’s problems and blackman’s problem is about our values, warped one indeed and our inferior attiitude with attendant despair that we can no longer change our sad situation.

This we can do. Late Chief obafemi awolowo series of books, which were pre-indepence yet very very relevant today give us the path to take and there are other truly patriotic Nigerians today who if they are listened to, would proffer useful solutions to make us come out of the doldrums in less than 10years.

It’s doable. The teeming but angry young folks are waiting…