Asari’s beloved pick-pockets
During the Jonathan Presidency, with the natives themselves scaling new heights in stratospheric greed — their “Niger Delta president” be damned! — it became a joke.
Now, if a management could blow such eye-popping dough in the interim, what much havoc would it do, were it to enjoy a longer tenure? The grand irony was that it was emplaced to checkmate previous long-term rodents! Talk of a cure worse than the ailment! In one breath, he beatifies Niger Delta native robbers as mere “pick pockets”. In another, he demonizes non-native hustlers as the real robber barons that folks should worry about.
The salacious tit-for-tat, between Akpabio and Joy Nunieh, estranged former NDDC interim managing director, projects Akpabio as a deformed reformer, that somewhat entered equity with rather filthy hands, to borrow that popular legal-speak. Incidentally, both Akpabio and Nunieh are trained lawyers. Little wonder: when Prof. Pondei fainted under a barrage of searing House questions, almost everyone concluded it was a contemptible Oscar show. But his faint could well have been real, given Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila’s admission that the chamber was a bit stuffy.
All the flurry of accusations and counter-accusations, involving the National Assembly itself, leaves untenable Akpabio’s position, as Niger Delta Minister. It’s, therefore, left to President Muhammadu Buhari to do the needful.
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