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on the rear and sometimes on the sides of trucks plying highways in Nigeria’s south-east: “No condition is permanent.”
and those who depend on them. Each political appointee has a personal story not conveyed in the usual press headlines of how many have been beheaded, politically, and how many more heads may roll. Like sharks, the press loves the smell of blood, as long as it is not their own. He should have learned from the public encounter of the great Nnamdi Azikiwe with Dr Ukpabi Asika, who had been seconded by the military from the University of Ibadan to be civilian administrator of the East-Central state. Azikiwe had criticised Asika’s administration and the administrator didn’t like it at all.He replied mocking Azikiwe as “ex-this, ex-that, and ex-everything else,” adding that Azikiwe was just a politician craving relevance.
Perhaps because Obasanjo’s successors between 2007 and 2015 were also from his Peoples Democratic Party , and also because of his longevity in office, no other PDP president after him retired or sacked as many political appointees as he did. There were cases where as a result of poor record-keeping, for example, appointees whose tenures were due escaped removal or where the president yielded to political pressure to extend the tenures of persons who had no business staying on.
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