Wola Adeyemo

For the governor who knows what he is doing, it is not difficult to fix the state. What do the people want? They want infrastructure, they want security, they want an enabling environment to do business, they want you to bring in capital,… Click To Tweet In order to get anything implemented successfully, even in the United States, you have to understand who the key stakeholders are …, and you have to engage them.

When one Madhi Shehu, a medical doctor and activist said in an interview on the Arise Television recently that the late journalist, Bagauda Kaltho, was indeed the one who detonated a bomb at Durbar Hotel in Kaduna on January 18, 1996, it was apparent that he had stirred up the hornets’ nest. Mahdi, in doing what he did, was exhuming an old narrative which the original author had denounced. It was therefore not unexpected that such an attempt would evoke reactions from different quarters.

I recall now that moment of frenzy in the year 2015 when General Muhammadu Buhari returned to power, this time, as a civilian head of government. The wild jubilation, the pump and the bravado by party men and women as well as supporters across the land that the saviour had come. The man many expected would solve the problems of insecurity and corruption, so other things could follow.