Senator Iyabo Obasanjo,
daughter of former Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Oluremi
Obasanjo, has expressed her pleasure for the controversial article written by
Charles Soludo former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Read Iyabo’s comment below:
Read Iyabo’s comment below:
“Professor Soludo’s article
on the elections in Nigeria is the best writing I have read recently on the
real situation politically and economically in Nigeria. The well-articulated
response from Dr. Fayemi compared to the abuse infused response from Femi
Fani-Kayode on the PDP side is a great example of the contrast of the
status-quo compared to the alternative.
Whatever the case and I
don’t expect miracles form APC but right now they have more thinking people
than the PDP.
As a Yoruba person, Dr.
Fayemi’s response is how we expect our educated elite to take up issues and not
the mad ranting’s of Fani-Kayode. I agree with most of his premise but I do not
think they (APC) can take up a massive public works program in a period of
“famine” i.e. low oil prices. During the great depression when Roosevelt used
public works to help provide jobs, it was the stock market that failed i.e.
Government revenue was affected from tax income but income from exportation
which was then mainly agricultural goods was not affected.
The government could use
money from its coffers to create jobs and provide skills and training, which
people could then use in the private sector. The best part of Dr. Fayemi’s
response is that it is not elite focused. Nigerian governance as I saw it was
not a democracy but an elitocracy. Govt of the elite by the elite for the elite
and even if you grew up in near death poverty once you left those circumstances
you forgot where you came from and concentrated on your immediate family and
matters affecting the well-being of the elite.
Changing this perspective
to make the elite understand that their well-being was in fact dependent on the
well-being of the masses will be APC’s challenge. They are sourcing from the
same pool of elite talent that every Nigerian government has to source from and
it is this pool that essentially has to be different or we will find ourselves
again at precipice as usual.”
Iyabo Obasanjo DVM, Ph.D,
is a former Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who wrote from the
United States of America.
Your father contribute to d bad situation of d country. So please.............
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