Although
I do not expect any Nigerian president to be able to personally visit all the
towns and the villages that make up our vast nation, Nigeria, it is practically
impossible for any president to be able to do that, but then at least, one would expect
a Nigerian president to be adequately informed in details before hand, by those
in the information department of his cabinet, who are being paid to assist the
president in collating information and channeling these vital information to
the president to avoid him ridiculing himself in public as we saw very recently
with President Goodluck Jonathan while he was at a meeting with the exiled emir
of Gwoza asking a question like “where is gwoza sef?”
What
that goes to show is that the Nigerian president does not care sufficiently
enough about his people and their situation, which may not be the real case but
that is what this grave error infers, because it is unacceptable that with the
level of terrorist activities going on in that area, with so many innocent
Nigerians killed on a daily basis by the Boko Haram that our president will
come to ask in public the exact location of where Nigerian victims are being
slaughtered.
Most of the times, we often blame the president, but in issues like this, except of course that the president´s memory fails him
assuming that his special assistants and his special adviser on media and
publicity Dr reuben Abati and his senior special assistant on public affairs Dr
Doyin Okupe had already given him such information, the two men should be held
accountable for this kind of public ignominy. A president of a country cannot
under any circumstance commit such an unforgivable blunder.
Dr Reuben Abati and Dr Doyin Okupe should do
less of sycophancy jobs and concentrate more on ensuring that our elected
president is not found wanting at very important moments like this. For less
professional irresponsibility people are laid off their jobs in other
countries.
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