Osun state got only N6.23 million in Federal Allocation – after all the gbese contracted by the state governor had been deducted from source.
Allah be praised.
The aides of one backward neighbouring state, whose governor is owing five months salaries, are guffawing and having a hearty laugh at the expense of the Governor of Osun.
This is no surprise for in Nigeria, ringworm is always summoning people to come and help it laugh at the condition of eczema.
The tragedy is not that Ogbeni has literally borrowed his state to extinction. After all, he is not alone. We are the ones who created a political structure that can only lead to laziness, mental paralysis, and collapse of reasoning on the part of the state governors.
Of thirty-six state governors, you’d be hard put to find six with imagination beyond loans and borrowing. The rest are lazy things always summoning bank managers looking for the next loan and their cut out of the said loans. When they are not hunting for domestic loans, they are sourcing external loans.
No critical intelligence beyond the architecture of loans and borrowing goes into the administration of any state in Nigeria.
So, until we are ready to do something about this ready-made atmosphere of laziness and indolence into which every state governor is elected and which they are only too happy to perpetuate, there is no point singling out any of the Governors.
I mean, Oshiomhole and Mimiko are so irresponsible that they are contracting gargantuan loans on their way out!
Let us work on this structure. Fiscal and responsible Federalism is a beginning but must work in tandem with other elements of social revolution that I have been espousing here this week.
So, the only thing I blame the governor of Osun state for is this:
Of the N6 million he got, Ogbeni is still going to spend a significant chunk buying fuel for his helicopter.
God forbid that he sells that helicopter in line with the wretched realities of his state.
After all, the one who should set a symbolic national example of financial prudence along these lines is having to make the significant national decision of whether to fly to Washington in the same plane he used recently to Equatorial Guinea or to summon one of his remaining 11 planes into service for the trip to Washington.
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