Vunderkind
Social Member
Is there no end to farcical governance in Nigeria? Last Friday, the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, peremptorily summoned a number of state and federal officials to some of the meetings she conducted in the bid to end the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. No matter how altruistic and good-natured she is, she has no right whatsoever to conduct the sort of meetings she has saddled herself with, and absolutely no right to summon state and federal officials to those meetings. It speaks volumes of the confusion, inertia and irresponsibility pervading the seat of government in Abuja that just as the president himself was setting up a fact-finding panel to look into the abductions, his wife was engaged in a five-hour meeting with officials to tackle the national and international embarrassment. The first lady’s meetings, which began on Friday, was expected to continue yesterday, if no one in the seat of government had commonsensically called her to order.
Dame Patience’s first reaction after her first Friday meeting was to decry the role of the state government in the abductions, accuse it of insensitivity and deliberate political provocations, lampoon what she insinuated could be a sexed-up number of abductees, and brusquely order the Borno governor to secure the schoolgirls’ release or risk a march upon the seat of government in Borno, Abuja and the National Assembly. These orders and provocations are insufferable. Is this what governance in Nigeria has become? Is the first lady not aware she is, in short, directly indicting her husband’s presidency of gross irresponsibility and inertia? She is no virtuoso in the art of diplomatese and elegant talk. But she carried her indiscretion to an intolerable level when she thundered that once she was involved in a matter, she always achieved result. She had worked behind closed doors, but now she must work in the open, she revealed without the timorousness her place beside her husband dictated. She spared no thought for how her statements made her husband look inactive, if not completely paralysed.
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Source: #TheNation
Dame Patience’s first reaction after her first Friday meeting was to decry the role of the state government in the abductions, accuse it of insensitivity and deliberate political provocations, lampoon what she insinuated could be a sexed-up number of abductees, and brusquely order the Borno governor to secure the schoolgirls’ release or risk a march upon the seat of government in Borno, Abuja and the National Assembly. These orders and provocations are insufferable. Is this what governance in Nigeria has become? Is the first lady not aware she is, in short, directly indicting her husband’s presidency of gross irresponsibility and inertia? She is no virtuoso in the art of diplomatese and elegant talk. But she carried her indiscretion to an intolerable level when she thundered that once she was involved in a matter, she always achieved result. She had worked behind closed doors, but now she must work in the open, she revealed without the timorousness her place beside her husband dictated. She spared no thought for how her statements made her husband look inactive, if not completely paralysed.
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Source: #TheNation
