Winning the peace
The 2019 general elections will reach a denouement this Saturday after the gubernatorial and state assembly elections. With tension ricocheting across the country in the past few weeks, I earnestly hope it will be an anti-climax to the palpable fear that the 2019 general elections will ferryArmageddon to our country. Except for few states where local warlords are raising the stakes, the tension associated with the general elections has dimmed.
The same scenario could play out going forward unless he ignores the merchants of rancour and face the task of doing public good. The ancient wisdom says: time waits for no one; make hay while the sun shines. If he wants to be remembered positively, he must speak and act statesmanlike going forward. While he may have a lot of power to make mountains move, he cannot compel people to love and respect him. But by his words and action, he can make any reasonable person love and respect him.
So those stoking ethnic agenda to advance their failed political interest, must not be allowed to foist crisis on the foremost cosmopolitan city in Nigeria. Lagos has been welcoming to all comers regardless of tribe or religion. Indeed, it has been more rewarding since the past 20 years,because Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu created a template that has made the city the sixth biggest economy in Africa.
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