Opinion: A ‘Good Setback’, By Femi Adesina
The Peoples Democratic Party has a fixation with 60 years. At the height of its heady days in power, it challenged its Chi to a wrestling contest, vowing that it would rule Nigeria for minimum of 60 years. We know how the story ended. The Chi gave the boastful party a thunderous pin-fall. So great was the fall that not all the king’s horses nor all the king’s men could put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Back to English Literature class in secondary school, we were taught what an oxymoron was: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. That is why we want to examine the ‘good setback’ the Buhari government has given Nigeria, taking her back 60 years, according to the PDP.
The 38 kilometres-long road runs through a low lying marshland swampy terrain, with many culverts, two creek bridges of about 500 metres in length, and a major river bridge of about 713 meters length. Yet, Buhari is building it, in conjunction with the NLNG. What a backward movement! Till Buhari came. Without fanfare, no bravado, no theatrics, he set to work. The bridge is 48 per cent completed today, with sights firmly set on the first quarter of 2022 as delivery time. What a backward move, according to PDP. And to think the party can’t even complete its head office, despite raising billions of naira, which developed legs and vanished.
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