I second the vote for Gov. Fashola to head that committee...or some other committee where he can actually affect policy. We are sitting on our hands while our best and brightest are doling out beautiful policies in books, treatises and friend-circle debates. Mr. President, give us the opportunity to help you...let us show working! Thank you, The Platform
What an erudition! PBAT should pls keep the banner flying by taking the right policies that will guide the economy back on track! True, times are hard! Nigerians must sit tight and work harder!
Many people are ignorant of the dire situation we are in as a nation. Prof. Soludo's message, well articulated, needs to get to others in government. If we care for this nation, it is time for the real change and everyone must tag along.
If you substitute Kola Oyeneyin's voice in this video with a moderate eastern Nigerian accent, you'll arrive at a speech by Peter Obi. This is the simple truth.
Intentional systemic disruptions, mass mobilization and ownership by the public required, conflict of short-term populism vs medium to long-term disruptions required, pressure good politicians to win elections vs demands of statesmanship for the next generations
Kenya's governance vs Nigeria's governance cost is not the same. We must cut our governance costs given that the monies we have are borrowed... while producing more and exporting within and outside Africa.
Anambra needs attention but he is tackling it not. Democracy blah blah but China is zero democracy but delivering TKOs in world economics. Take the soundbite of democracy with a pinch of salt.
One of the presidential candidates in the immediate past general elections enunciated most of what Prof. Soludo was stating during the campaign seasons. Some people felt he's just a mere alarmist....Now the chiken is coming home to roost. There's fire on the mountain and nobody seems to be on the run to borrow from the evergreen Asa. Nigerians wake up! We've slept for too long and now is the time to come together and take this country back from state captors!
How is it that every sector in Nigeria is not working as should? That is because we have a very flawed concept of electing leaders. We continue to fail to put leaders who have a handle on the problems with ideas on how to solve them. We have become a people of vibes, we celebrate empty sound bites and fail to ask our leaders the hard question. To push our leaders to have the political will to make urgent and needed changes. When things fall apart they will all travel to their abodes and we all will be the ones holding the bag. Let's do better as a people NOW!!
Listening to this guy, Fashola, you'd think he was me, that is, that he was a guy outside Buhari's government. He was part of the ineptitude and rot that compromised APC and Buhari's government. Men like these should be forced to exit the Nigerian public scene forever. Now, the platform wants to use this backdoor to begin laundering Fashola's image, hoping that all Nigerians would forget how APC and Buhari destroyed Nigeria. Until the platform stops bringing despicables like Fashola who failed to speak up as Buhari and his killer herdsmen meted out untold hardship on Nigerians, I must never watch the platform. The platform hasn't done anything to help Nigerian people move forward.
Mr. Moderator, put away your phone please. This obsession for our phones is becoming an epidemic. To be moderating this kind of panel and can't keep your phone away for 1 hour. Terrible!
