The news filtered in just as myself and my good friend Mr You-dont-need-to-know-his-name Phillips were sharing a bottle of Lager in a bar in downtown Lagos.
The long awaited and long prayed for Governor Suntai of Taraba State was back home.
Amid fanfare,hordes of flag waving school children,relieved party members and concerned citizens,the Governor strode down the aircraft,chin raised and proud like a goat who had just stumbled on his owner's yam stable.
Not really though. I(and I speak for meself only) had forgotten there was a man named Governor Suntai. To be honest,I had briefly,with all the troubles one has to face in Lagos daily,forgotten there was a state called Taraba!
In fact,while trying to jog our memories,my dear friend,Mr Philips,even insinuated that it could be the ex-Chinese Mayor,who's presently on trial for corruption who had fled to Nigeria for safe haven.
Mr Philips,good bless his kind soul,did confess that he was not sure what the Chinese gentleman's name was but he could swear by his last ironed shirt(and that's nothing to sniff at mind you,considering he had not had electricity for 2weeks and counting) that it sounded like Mayor Sun Tai.
Anyways,unless 'Mayor Sun Tai' had the nationality slapped off his face by his mother for being corrupt,we can safely assume the gentleman that made his way gingerly down the plane while being supported by his aides,was neither Chinese nor escaping from anything.
For those who do not remember,Governor Suntai was the gentleman who crashed his/the state's private jet some months back,while flying it.
All by himself.
Yep!
Move on!
I was glad though.Even though the plane the dear Governor crashed while possibly fulfilling a childhood fantasy of his might be worth much more than the entire year's allocation to education in Taraba,the survival of a man from the clutches of death is always something to celebrate.
And celebrate we did!Myself and Mr Philip.A couple of bottles of cold lager and a few dead catfish can testify to the fact that we toasted to his health and wished him well in his convalescence period in the coming months.
So you can very well imagine the shock on my face when I heard the news of the governor dissolving his cabinet and sacking key staff barely a day after returning.
Infact,if you could extract the shock from my system,condense it into chocolate bars of 'common sense',there would have been enough to go round for the staff of the Benin Airport and maybe,just maybe,someone would have been alive to their responsibilities and seen the boy stow away on an Arik flight to the 'US'.
Anyhoo,we've been on this road before with the former occupants of Aso-Rock and I can tell you with certainty,it ain't pretty.
The script seems eerily similar.A hastily arranged return.No personal statements made except through 'aides'. No visits allowed and a wife keen,as you would expect,to protect her husband's privacy.
I'm no expert at telling you a man's mental state from a few seconds of video,in truth,my friends will tell you that I'm no expert at anything really but the man Suntai did not look fit to do the 'skelewu' let alone run a state.
But then again as our dear Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA has said,'Who are we to Judge?' It is better we look and observe for now.
Abi,Pastor?
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The long awaited and long prayed for Governor Suntai of Taraba State was back home.
Amid fanfare,hordes of flag waving school children,relieved party members and concerned citizens,the Governor strode down the aircraft,chin raised and proud like a goat who had just stumbled on his owner's yam stable.
Not really though. I(and I speak for meself only) had forgotten there was a man named Governor Suntai. To be honest,I had briefly,with all the troubles one has to face in Lagos daily,forgotten there was a state called Taraba!
In fact,while trying to jog our memories,my dear friend,Mr Philips,even insinuated that it could be the ex-Chinese Mayor,who's presently on trial for corruption who had fled to Nigeria for safe haven.
Mr Philips,good bless his kind soul,did confess that he was not sure what the Chinese gentleman's name was but he could swear by his last ironed shirt(and that's nothing to sniff at mind you,considering he had not had electricity for 2weeks and counting) that it sounded like Mayor Sun Tai.
Anyways,unless 'Mayor Sun Tai' had the nationality slapped off his face by his mother for being corrupt,we can safely assume the gentleman that made his way gingerly down the plane while being supported by his aides,was neither Chinese nor escaping from anything.
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| Mind you,that's the new Special Assistant to the Governor on State 'Support' Systems behind him. |
For those who do not remember,Governor Suntai was the gentleman who crashed his/the state's private jet some months back,while flying it.
All by himself.
Yep!
Move on!
I was glad though.Even though the plane the dear Governor crashed while possibly fulfilling a childhood fantasy of his might be worth much more than the entire year's allocation to education in Taraba,the survival of a man from the clutches of death is always something to celebrate.
And celebrate we did!Myself and Mr Philip.A couple of bottles of cold lager and a few dead catfish can testify to the fact that we toasted to his health and wished him well in his convalescence period in the coming months.
So you can very well imagine the shock on my face when I heard the news of the governor dissolving his cabinet and sacking key staff barely a day after returning.
Infact,if you could extract the shock from my system,condense it into chocolate bars of 'common sense',there would have been enough to go round for the staff of the Benin Airport and maybe,just maybe,someone would have been alive to their responsibilities and seen the boy stow away on an Arik flight to the 'US'.
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| So many black people in the U.S!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Anyhoo,we've been on this road before with the former occupants of Aso-Rock and I can tell you with certainty,it ain't pretty.
The script seems eerily similar.A hastily arranged return.No personal statements made except through 'aides'. No visits allowed and a wife keen,as you would expect,to protect her husband's privacy.
I'm no expert at telling you a man's mental state from a few seconds of video,in truth,my friends will tell you that I'm no expert at anything really but the man Suntai did not look fit to do the 'skelewu' let alone run a state.
But then again as our dear Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA has said,'Who are we to Judge?' It is better we look and observe for now.
Abi,Pastor?
Follow @doctorrotcod
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