By Okon Iyanam
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the current Minister for Information, has stated, with exceptional clarity, that the wages we are currently earning from the enduring fuel scarcity chiefly result from the sins of the Jonathan administration. In this sense and across the land, the filling station has unwittingly become "the" metaphor for evaluating regime performance in our Nigeria today.
As the previous administration has been judged, so should the current, given that fuel scarcity preceded the GEJ administration and, as it now transpires, has succeeded it too.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the current Minister for Information, has stated, with exceptional clarity, that the wages we are currently earning from the enduring fuel scarcity chiefly result from the sins of the Jonathan administration. In this sense and across the land, the filling station has unwittingly become "the" metaphor for evaluating regime performance in our Nigeria today.
As the previous administration has been judged, so should the current, given that fuel scarcity preceded the GEJ administration and, as it now transpires, has succeeded it too.
Unfortunately, during the past 6 months, we must properly situate fuel
scarcity as "a" metaphor for assessing the viability of government in
the context of the peoples' suffering, for it shares this unenviable
status with others.
To be sure, some of these tendencies have historical roots, with some even arising from the immediate past administration, but they all seem to have become exacerbated in fairly recent memory. Needless to say, despite their legacy configuration, we have on ground now, an administration which rode to power with messianic zeal, waving the wand of rectitude and the flag of solutions, with the promise of change.
I hold this promise as immutable.
This explains my reluctance to accept excuses, such as that now being campaigned by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and my impatience with the current lack of results in the face of the incremental hardship that we all now face
The absolute rise in inflation, the collapse of the exchange rate, the minimization of foreign currency payment instruments, the progressive degradation of the stock market, the continuous diminution of the middle class stratum, the on-going attempt at emasculating socio-political communications, the collapse of manufacturing value-added, the constrictions in retail trading and unending violence and civil disobedience across the land, are all metaphors in this respect, among others.
To be sure, some of these tendencies have historical roots, with some even arising from the immediate past administration, but they all seem to have become exacerbated in fairly recent memory. Needless to say, despite their legacy configuration, we have on ground now, an administration which rode to power with messianic zeal, waving the wand of rectitude and the flag of solutions, with the promise of change.
I hold this promise as immutable.
This explains my reluctance to accept excuses, such as that now being campaigned by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and my impatience with the current lack of results in the face of the incremental hardship that we all now face
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