Dele Momodu: “This is class…
“Last week, I waited for the excitement, and giddiness, of President Tinubu’s visit to England to die down before writing my own observations.
“President Tinubu was well received, with pomp and pageantry. In terms of flamboyance and entertainment, it was beautiful. But in matters of substance, it failed spectacularly.
“I was embarrassed, and scandalized, when some Tinubu acolytes came on air to jubilate, and even conspired to insult former President Olusegun Obasanjo, by saying he’ll be very jealous of the reception accorded President Tinubu at Windsor Castle, by King Charles III. Such chicanery.
“In 2003, during Obasanjo’s reign, 23 years ago, December 3-6, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the mother of today’s King, traveled to Abuja, Nigeria, Nigeria with The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. In fact, The Duke was dispatched to Lagos to attend some events. This was the height, if not the peak, of Nigeria’s glory, on the world stage…
“Under OBASANJO, Nigeria’s external debts were written off. But today, the debts have more than quadrupled.”
My humble appeal is that we should get our priorities right. It smacks of inferiority complex for nearly all our cabinet and Governors to empty themselves to England for nothing more than a banquet and carriage rides, while hundreds of fellow citizens were being exterminated at home…
It shall be well with us…
