One governor that I know is a god. He is on his second term and come the year two thousand and nineteen, after the death of our Lord, he knows what will happen.
So, he is already planning who will succeed him. Some are saying he already knows whom.
He has declared that no foreigner will be governor after himself. That’s exceedingly great.
It’s only the poor who do not know where the next meal will come from, not to talk about knowing whether they will be on this side of the earth tomorrow. The rich know all these. They even know more.
They are always in good health. They also equip themselves with the services of prophets, alphas and even soothsayers.
The constitution grants Nigerians the right to live anywhere and perform their civic responsibilities anywhere. It’s the people that will determine whether they want or they don’t want someone to rule them. Afterall that’s the essence of democracy.
Forget about the constitution. Constitutions are made for people. Constitutions are just books anyway.
We’re dealing with human beings. A governor is far more powerful than a king. It is true that he has a fixed term of office. But then, what he could do within that term is enormous.
If he’s lucky to have a second term, that is enjoyment galore. In the constitution, elected executives are not allowed a third term. It is just as well. The officials will have sufficient time to scheme.
The people are so confused that they are even telling the governor to pick a candidate for them. They have come to the realisation that if they dare pick someone whose face the governor doesn’t like, they are, more or less, at a dead end.
The governor, as a kingmaker extraordinary, has ruled magisterially that the incoming governor must only come from a particular section of the state. He has also commanded that no foreigner must become governor.
His definition of foreigner being anyone who has been unfortunate enough not to be resident in the state. It doesn’t matter if the person has some link with the state.
Forget about cosmopolitanism. We can always build with what we have. The governor himself has never left the state throughout his entire career. Yet he is an achiever in his own right.
The state of aquatic splendour has been having it so good because it taps leadership materials from anywhere in the country. Well, that’s their business.
As a god the governor has decided.
Kabi o kosi!
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