ome of Nigeria’s 36 state governors made a spectacle of what they called their first 100 days in office last week.
And by far more curious is the fact that some second term governors who apparently do not consider the formation of a cabinet one of the most important requirements of any administration within the space of its first 100 days in office also joined in the parade. All of that, to my mind, shows the lack of seriousness that attends governance in Nigeria.
The point is that a governor who has spent four years superintending a state should hit the ground running immediately after taking the oath of office for his second term. And hitting the ground running includes the appointment of a cabinet. This should not be rocket science for a governor who has worked in the state for four years and must know the people and the sentiments that govern the state.
Since politics has become the most lucrative industry in Nigeria, rather than see the opportunity as a means to an end, that end being the service and delivery of good governance to the people, appointments are now seen as the end. This end being the gratification of self and the total subjugation of anything that stands in the way of this personal aggrandisement.
While taking the oath of office however, FDR promised: “This nation asks for action, and action now. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.” When the CBSNews asked Donald Trump what he would consider the best moment of his first 100 days in office in April 2017, the American President answered as follows: “The best moment? Well, I think the Supreme Court Justice — I’ve always heard for my life, that if you’re president and you put on a Supreme Court Justice, that’s about as big as it gets,”
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