These are not the best of times for Nigeria. The economy is at its worst in over two decades. Prices of commodities have skyrocketed. There’s a resurgence in militancy, which impacts negatively on the fortune of the country. Job losses have become commonplace and many States grapple with the inability to meet obligations as basic as paying workers salaries. The situation is truly bad and the future doesn’t seem to inspire hope.

Any State Government that, like the current All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government, chooses to offer excuses for non-performance in the face of the current realities may be justified. The situation is so bad that even the Federal Government can hardly account for any achievement in the last one year in credit to alleged monumental corruption of the previous Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led administration. Although none of the bogus and mind boggling allegations have been substantiated, it is to the credit of the last administration that Nigeria until it was taken over by the APC was Africa’s most thriving and lucrative economy. What went wrong after the emergence of the APC-led government is not far-fetched. The Party was clearly unprepared for governance and absolutely clueless with respect to how to maintain the strides achieved by the last PDP-led administration and not give it credit.

A year ago, today, while the case of the Federal Government, was about the challenge of the incoming APC-led government in keeping pace with achievements recorded by the out-going PDP-led government, in Rivers State the reverse was the case. The incoming PDP-led government under the leadership of Chief Nyesom Wike, was saddled with the onerous responsibility of clearing the mess of maladministration, the orgy of financial malfeasance and the catastrophe of political rascality bequeathed to it by the outgoing APC-led government. The situation was so bad that the outgoing government could not face the shame of handing over the State in any documented or allegorical form. They simply checked out in the dead of the night heralding the dawn of a NEW era without, as much as, handing over a single shred of paper to account for the 8 years of humongous abundance that were largely wasted on trips of vain fantasies.

Fortunately, the NEW dawn encapsulated in the hopes and aspirations of Rivers people for a better deal and invested in the person of Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike took to flight pronto, after his inauguration Governor of Rivers State.
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