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Role Models and Villains of 2010 by olu77(m): 1:36am On Dec 29, 2010
Is there any political or any other leader whose action has made you proud this year? Please, I will love to learn about them. Or are there those whose actions or inactions has made you feel bad or angry one way or the other? Mention them with reasons under this title: Role models and Villains of 2010.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Nobody: 10:17am On Dec 29, 2010
Role model: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (CBN Governor) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers Governor) and that guy that beat OBJ up (does anyone know his name or what the police have done with him, haven't heard of any trial)

Villian: There are quite a few, Aondoakaa, Turai, most of the national assembly, Henry Okah, Charles Okah, Iran, etc 

Reasons for Amaechi: He is doing what i never thought possible. When he first came in he wanted only nigerian companies to get contracts in the state, most of these companies thought it business as usual (chop & disappear), but after seeing the dismal performances, Amaechi reigned them in and its apparent now that the state is transforming. The best thing about Amaechi is he is a proactive governor who feels that poor quality means failure and is completely unacceptable.
Am sure by now everyone has seen or at least heard of the primary health centres and schools even in remote parts of the state (seen for myself).
He is activley fighting for Rivers to be self sufficient in power. Most areas have improved in quality of power during the year. Some places have about 22 hours of power each day, some 18, mine about 14.
Security is also getting better, but is still not that good. (which part of Nigeria is that safe nowadays anyway?)
There is plenty more, but now is not the time to delve deep. Just know that most of Rivers supports him, with good reason

Don't think I have to explain any of the other names, because their issues are national in nature.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by olu77(m): 12:09am On Dec 30, 2010
Role model: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (CBN Governor) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers Governor) and that guy that beat OBJ up (does anyone know his name or what the police have done with him, haven't heard of any trial)

Ikay88, I've not been to Rivers state but a lot of people are testifying to the performance of this disciplined and active governor. It's delightful to know there are still role models in this nation. Thanks cool
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Beaf: 12:14am On Dec 30, 2010
Godswill Akpabio is another capable performer, so is gov Lamido of Jigawa state.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by olu77(m): 12:38am On Dec 30, 2010
Really! Say more about them Beaf.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Beaf: 1:08am On Dec 30, 2010
Personally, Sule Lamido is the best governor, because of the meagre amount he gets and what he has conjured from the desert with it.





You can get an idea of how the mind of this progressive governor functions here:
http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/15313/1/See-what-China-has-done-to-Sule-Lamido/Page1.html

There is an NL thread here:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-379261.0.html#msg5290888

Please read this article on Nigeria Village Square:

[size=14pt]Who Is Nigeria's Best Performing Governor?[/size]
Moses Ebe Ochonu
January 08, 2010
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Governor Raji Fashola is today acclaimed by many as Nigeria’s best performing governor. Among intellectuals in particular, especially those with residential, professional, or emotional stakes in Lagos, he is celebrated as an exemplary leader demonstrating the possibilities of progressive and visionary governance.

His political fame and the sense of hope that his accomplishments inspire have made their way into the vibrant, increasingly influential Nigerian internet community. He is seen as a bright spot in a political topography devoid of leadership and clarity of political vision, a model deserving of widespread replication.

Fashola deserves all the credit he is getting. I was in Lagos last May and saw, first-hand, the material evidence of his transformative leadership. His defeat of the infamous Oshodi logjam is still a source of personal wonder to me.

Fashola’s governance philosophy and his ability to grow his ideas from paper to infrastructure and service-delivery outcomes make him a champion in this segment of our on-going democratic transition. But he is not an undisputed champion and should not be baptized as such.

From what I saw in Dutse and its surrounding countryside and heard from many Jigawa state folks during a recent research trip to the state, Fashola faces a formidable contender in Jigawa’s Sule Lamido. I first visited Jigawa in 1996 when I was an undergraduate at Bayero University, Kano. I again visited the state in 2007 in the wake of the April 2007 election to begin a pilot phase of a new academic research project. I observed a state that had been turned into a depressing wasteland by corruption and incompetence, a state stunted by neglect sixteen years after its creation.

As a Nigerian with no personal stake in Jigawa but with a profound personal interest in the on-ground, human toll of corruption and maladministration, I was moved to document my observations in an article I published on popular Nigerian internet site, Nigeriavillagesquare.com. Titled, The Ground Zero of Corruption, the article was an unsparing indictment of then Governor Saminu Turaki (of N10 Billion Third Term sponsorship infamy).

I thought that such callous disregard for the moral and developmental burdens of public office and the poor stewardship that underpins it had to be given maximum textual and visual exposure as a way of shaming other public office holders. The pictures depicting Jigawa’s decay under Turaki stirred angst and revulsion in Nigerians and friends of Nigeria. Readers and commentators compared Jigawa’s plight to that of their own states or to states with which they were familiar. This was precisely the emotional reaction and citizen outrage that I had hoped to inspire with the piece.

That was April 2007. This was December 2009. Same state. Different Governor. Two and half years later.

The state capital, Dutse, bore few signs of a state capital when I visited in 2007. Now it wears a new, bold look of regeneration. It is perhaps the most daring signpost of the transformation that has occurred in the last two and half years in Jigawa. Dutse now possesses dual-carriage township roads that branch out and intersect in all directions. The aesthetic appeal of the roads is enhanced by their well-manicured shoulders.

Across the capital, new projects are sprouting up or getting completed. From the state polytechnic, which is being virtually rebuilt, to the ultramodern staff development center, to at least three completed 500-unit housing estates, to the massive new state secretariat, to the high court complex, to the Eagle Square replica under construction, to ubiquitous urbanization projects, Dutse is a city reborn.

Then there is the crowing glory of this remarkable transformation: the Rasheed Shekoni Specialist Hospital, which brought tears my eyes in 2007 (see my 2007 photos in The Ground Zero of Corruption). It had been abandoned for 9 years and had become a habitat for rodents, birds, and insects. Leaky roofs, puddles of water in the premises, overgrown compounds, and abandoned imported containers of building materials constituted an unflattering ensemble of waste and miasma.

Today, the hospital is completed, fully equipped as a specialist medical institution capable of carrying out most specialist diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical procedures (see current photos). One consultant, Dr. Abdulrazak Taiwo, who was recruited from Lagos state, told me in a private conversation that the hospital may be the best equipped in Nigeria! It faces a challenge of attracting qualified medical personal to run its many specialized units, but it is an impressive medical facility on par with the highest-rated medical facilities in the world. I should know. I patronize a university hospital that is ranked number 6 in the world.

The spectacle of Dutse got me curious about the broader developmental agenda of Lamido’s governorship. Outside Dutse, in remote villages and local government areas, the story was the same: roads, many of them, newly built or newly refurbished. Educational institutions, primary, secondary, and tertiary, wore new coats of paint, had new office and classroom buildings built or being built. Hospitals and clinics, many newly built or refurbished, dotted rural outposts. There was developmental activity everywhere.

I was told that all girls in Jigawa now enjoy a right to free education up to tertiary level and that all students in the state enjoy a right to free textbooks and supplies. If this is true then the present administration is investing as much in long term empowerment projects as it is in immediate-impact ones like the controversial but widely praised N7000 survival allowance paid to disabled indigenes of the state. As an educationist concerned about the slipping competitiveness of Nigerian students in a fast-globalizing intellectual world, the sight of rural schools with first rate laboratories, computer labs, and dedicated V-Sat internet facilities was a source of pure joy!

I was also impressed with the ubiquity of water projects. My research took me to remote villages in Jahun, Birnin Kudu, Gwaram, and Gumel local governments and I was captivated by the quantity and quality of water, education, rural electrification, and road projects. Together, these projects underscore the transformation that is going on in this remote state—and its radical, impatient departure from the waste and stagnancy of two and half years ago.

This is rural transformation at its most heartening. What is remarkable about what is going on in Jigawa is that it is set against a recent history of criminal maladministration and dereliction of governance, one that I witnessed and documented.

Throughout my stay in Jigawa, I heard unsolicited, enthusiastic, and bipartisan praise for the governor’s accomplishments, and for the improvements his administration has brought to rural communities in the state across a broad spectrum of social need. Some of it seemed over the top but it was genuine. I understand why a people starved of purposeful leadership by the last administration in the state may get a little emotional and a bit hyperbolic in their rendering of the transformative and all-embracing changes going on around them.

However, since enormous challenges remain, especially for a state that is making a transition from a rural, insular backwater to an accessible, attractive gateway, I wondered about the dangers of highfalutin and personalized praise for the Governor—two years into his tenure! You don’t want to jinx it—or make him slow down. But Jigawa people like to talk about their “God-sent” (their word) governor and I couldn’t let my concerns dampen their excitement.

I also wondered and asked several Jigawa folks why, given his accomplishments, their governor does not get as much press as Lagos’ Fashola. They had no definitive answer. Neither do I. But it is a question worth contemplating. Lamido has recorded these strides with a significantly lower monthly allocation from the federal treasury than Lagos. The state ranks in the bottom 5 in the size of federal allocation; Lagos ranks in the top 5 (discounting derivation payments to oil-producing states).

Jigawa’s on-going transformation is also more impressive because it entails a from-the-scratch morphing of an essentially rural, infrastructure-challenged state into one that now possesses a solid social infrastructure base—water, rural electricity, schools, roads, urban housing, and hospitals. By contrast, Fashola’s transformative vision entails a rebuilding of Lagos’ crumbling infrastructure, and rarely the provision of a new one. Fashola did not and still does not have to wrestle with the expensive obstacle of rural poverty and a baseline of infrastructural absence. Fashola’s Lagos is an urban renewal project; Lamido had nothing to renew in Jigawa. He is building the base for future renewals.

The two year transformation of Jigawa can better be appreciated from a position of comparison. Unfortunately, many observers lack the framework for such comparison, not knowing what the state looked like two and half years ago. They are understandably more familiar with pre-Fashola Lagos than they are with pre-Lamido Jigawa. Those of us who stumbled onto the decay of pre-Lamido Jigawa see in the state a compelling model for the possibility of progressive governance.

We evaluate effective governance differently, depending on our ideological commitments and our own social-economic backgrounds. There is nothing wrong with that. If visionary, strategic, big-idea leadership is your definition of effective leadership, Fashola, is the winner of what is clearly a two-way contest for best-performing governor. But if rural transformation thrills you; if direct improvement of the lives of the poor and vulnerable gets your juices flowing; and if the transformation of time-trapped rural sectors into co-travelers of modernity is your notion of leadership, then Lamido is your man. If service delivery, physical problem solving, and empathetic, instrumental allocation of public resources are dearer to you than the more elitist, carefully choreographed dance of strategic statecraft, you will love what Lamido has done in—and to—Jigawa. 

One bias of governance is not superior to the other. Lagos’ priorities as an essentially urban and cosmopolitan state are different from Jigawa’s rural challenges and call perhaps for a grander, strategic, longer-term approach instead of the massive infrastructural intervention needed in a state like Jigawa. Each state has its peculiar set of problems; both governors have met their states’ challenges impressively.

What’s more, both of them converge on one juncture of significance: they are models that shatter one dangerously pervasive narrative of our current political arrangement: the lack of fund alibi. We are told by Nigeria’s many grumbling governors that after fulfilling remunerative obligations to civil servants and retirees, there is hardly any funds left for development. Jigawa and Lagos falsify those claims spectacularly.

The arithmetic logic of Jigawa’s ability to fund so many projects simultaneously while paying disabled members of society a survival stipend—one of the fulcrums of Lamido’s pro-poor approach to governance—is still a mystery to me. Fashola’s financial situation may be more obvious, given Lagos’s massive capacity for generating internal revenue and its big allocation from the Federation Account. Nonetheless, Lagos also challenges the tired, corruption-fueled narrative of fiscal decapitation that many governors find convenient as an excuse for their failures.

Lamido is certainly no internet political celebrity like Fashola. I am not even sure that the national press has paid much attention to his rural transformation and Talakawa-focused style of governance, which is bringing relief and succor to a long-suffering, modernity-craving, neo-feudal sector of Nigeria. So, why the disparity in press coverage at a time when the paucity of positive leadership demands that we scour the nation in search of signs—any signs—of political hope for Nigeria’s rural and urban poor?

I have some preliminary thoughts on why this is the case. First, Fashola reaps some incidental capital and goodwill simply by being an opposition governor, while Lamido, for all his accomplishments, is after all, one of the most loyal—and proudest—members of the PDP, the behemoth that is today a byword for all that is wrong with Nigeria. He will get little break or credit because of his PDP identity. Nigerians, including this writer, make an impulsive mental association between the PDP and the deficit of leadership that plagues the country, not to mention the fact that the PDP has also become the narrative stand-in for incompetence and corruption. The connections are more than justified given what PDP politicians have done to Nigeria and its constituent units. Lamido is a collateral damage of these mental associations. His stand-out accomplishments will always be weighed down by and evaluated in the shadow of this PDP stigma.

The contagion of the PDP’s abysmal public image cannot do any politician any good. However, in our desperation to find, acknowledge, and celebrate result-oriented leadership in an epoch in which it is notoriously rare, and in light of the palpable absence of leadership at the national level, we have to look at all the governors in all corners of Nigeria, regardless of party affiliation, and shine some light on those of them who are good stewards of public trust and public funds.

I am willing to suspend my concerns about Lamido’s PDP association so that I can assess what the Governor has done in Jigawa in the two and half years since I last visited it. It is difficult to make this distinction. I thought myself incapable of making it. But I am trying to will myself into a principled pragmatism in my evolving notion of leadership in Nigeria. I am trying to allow, within limits, of course, for the imperfections and electoral necessities of curious political alliances.

I have also become less puritanical in my evaluation of leadership in Nigeria, settling somewhat regrettably into a crude commitment to the problem-solving, infrastructure-providing imperatives of governance. I am now willing to sometimes forgive the trespassing of some of the abstract political ideals that I value as long as the trespass is offset by the kind of heart-warming accomplishments that Lamido has recorded. My working class orientation, which stresses existential priorities over abstract ideals, is clearly reasserting itself here. This is the spirit in which I am willing to celebrate and recommend Lamido’s accomplishments, along with Fashola’s, and to advance both models as two manifestations of the same political possibility, which should hearten Nigerians of conscience.

Second, there is a correlation between the visibility of Lagos, the relative invisibility of Jigawa, and the differential exposure that the transformations in both states are getting. The remoteness of Jigawa means that most people who evaluate leadership performance in Nigeria have never and will never visit it. This point should require no elaboration except to add that exposure is also a crude game of numbers: Lagos, with its much higher population has more people who have stakes in its fortunes and are directly impacted by its decline or revival. Simply put: there are more people to tell and celebrate its story of renewal under Fashola than there are for Jigawa, so somehow the story will get told to the world while Jigawa’s story of transformative change may be restricted to the few people with direct stakes in the state’s fortunes. It makes a small difference that the folks who have an intellectual interest in leadership performance or are more likely to report on it are Lagosians by residence or professional or emotional connection.

Third, most of Nigeria’s progressive pundits, who have adopted Fashola as the torchbearer of progressive, purposeful governance in the print and internet mediums, have a personal or professional investment in Lagos. Lagos is Nigeria’s media hub, so naturally, Fashola’s story will get told more frequently and more elaborately. The typical Lagos media person and other evaluators of leadership performance do not have ties to a remote Northwestern state called Jigawa and so may not be naturally inclined to comment on its transformation unless they had been familiar with its prior developmental status and are sufficiently stunned—and stung—by its transformation into commenting. This is my situation, but I am in small company.

Finally, there is and has always been an urban bias in the assessment of developmental effort in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. This followed from the urban bias in the developmental agenda of most postcolonial African governments, including Nigeria’s. Successive governments sought to appease a restive urban population and urban dwelling elites—allies and critics alike—with urban social infrastructure to the exclusion of the rural sector, where 80 percent of Africans/Nigerians reside. Urban dwellers and urban-dwelling commentators on development subsequently cultivated and nurtured an unyielding propensity to privilege the development of urban infrastructure and service delivery ahead of the kind of rural transformation that is going on in Lamido’s Jigawa. Obscure rural development is not appreciated to the same degree that more visible urban projects are. The forces of urban bias are therefore aligned in favor of Fashola and against Lamido.

There may be other factors why Lamido has yet to get the press that his achievements entitle him to, but they are not strong enough reasons to deprive our leadership-starved people of the inspirational comfort of Lamido’s Jigawa story. If we had many Lamidos and Fasholas, we could be justified in screening them for maximum symbolic impact and import. Unfortunately we have no Lamidos or Fasholas to spare or to disregard. So, let us tell these rare stories of performing governors wherever we can find them.

Hopefully we can shame their colleagues into action or inspire the people of other states to demand more action from their governors and to reject the tired excuses that Lamido and Fashola have discredited through their achievements.

So, who is Nigeria’s best-performing governor? Well, why choose when you can credibly declare it a two-way tie. Let’s call it a two-way tie between Lamido and Fashola.

But I would rather we had a four, five, or six-way tie. The two governors are really not competing on the same terrain. One is in the business of urban renewal; the other is the architect of an on-going rural transformation. Both are unqualified successes in their respective domains.

The bottom line is this: in this tragic dearth of leadership at the national level, we must look to the margins to locate and celebrate every effective, disciplined, compassionate, and result-producing leader. They are not many but wherever we find them, their activities should be advertised to bring some psychological cheer to justifiably cynical Nigerians, to inspire or shame other leaders—and to provoke outrage in the indigenes of states with lethargic governors. This is our national duty.

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Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by sweetguy10(m): 12:23pm On Dec 30, 2010
Senator Obahiagbon , a mixture of a model and villain at the same time . I loff him gan , , makes me laugh grin grin grin
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by otukpo(f): 12:31pm On Dec 30, 2010
ikay88:

Role model: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (CBN Governor) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers Governor) and that guy that beat OBJ up (does anyone know his name or what the police have done with him, haven't heard of any trial)

Villian: There are quite a few, Aondoakaa, Turai, most of the national assembly, Henry Okah, Charles Okah, Iran, etc
Reasons for Amaechi: He is doing what i never thought possible. When he first came in he wanted only nigerian companies to get contracts in the state, most of these companies thought it business as usual (chop & disappear), but after seeing the dismal performances, Amaechi reigned them in and its apparent now that the state is transforming. The best thing about Amaechi is he is a proactive governor who feels that poor quality means failure and is completely unacceptable.
Am sure by now everyone has seen or at least heard of the primary health centres and schools even in remote parts of the state (seen for myself).
He is activley fighting for Rivers to be self sufficient in power. Most areas have improved in quality of power during the year. Some places have about 22 hours of power each day, some 18, mine about 14.
Security is also getting better, but is still not that good. (which part of Nigeria is that safe nowadays anyway?)
There is plenty more, but now is not the time to delve deep. Just know that most of Rivers supports him, with good reason

Don't think I have to explain any of the other names, because their issues are national in nature.

i dey with you jare on the bolded.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by mynaija123(m): 12:42pm On Dec 30, 2010
sweetguy10:

Senator Obahiagbon , a mixture of a model and villain at the same time . I loff him gan , , makes me laugh grin grin grin

Is obahiagbon a senator? shocked
pls confirm before u talk.


Mine is Comrade Adams Oshiomole. He has done what other governors did not do for the past ten years in just 2 years.

Vilain: Aondooka the man with Phd for telling lies. Atiku the known thief who wants to rule us.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by opabukun(m): 1:46pm On Dec 30, 2010
Role Model : Sanusi Lamido

Villain : Aondoakaa

CHIKENA
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by tunyus(m): 1:49pm On Dec 30, 2010
Role model----JOSE MOURINHO,Obama,sanusi lamido,Aregbesola,
Villain------Muttalab,IBB,atiku,obj,gbagbo(ivory coast),henry okah.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Nobody: 1:57pm On Dec 30, 2010
My role model are : Ribadu and Sanusi Lamido while my villians are president jonathan, his fat ugly wife patience and pdp
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by delimit(m): 2:19pm On Dec 30, 2010
my role model are: gov Raji fashola and jose mourinho
Villain:Obj, james Onanefe Ibori & segun oni (Ekiti)
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by babyme1(f): 4:06pm On Dec 30, 2010
Beaf:

Godswill Akpabio is another capable performer, so is gov Lamido of Jigawa state.

Is this the Bro Goddy i know? shocked shocked shocked
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by apoti(m): 5:45pm On Dec 30, 2010
Role Models: Fashola, Fayemi, Ribadu, Oshiomole

Villians: Segun oni (pdp), Oyinlola (pdp), Atiku (pdp), IBB (pdp) GEJ (pdp), and everyone left in PDP

PDP is d root of Nigeria's problem, anyone associated with PDP is directly or indirectly contributing to our problem
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by andyanders: 7:34pm On Dec 30, 2010
OBJ,ATIKU, AMOS ADAMU ARE ALL VILLIANS.
ROLE MODELS, PROPHET T.B.JOSHUA & HIS WIFE, RAJI FASHOLA OF LAGOS STATE, MYSELF, WIFE AND KIDS. FOR ALL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, HOUSE OF REPS, SENATORS AND ALL POLITICAL PARTIES, ARE ALL PEN ROGUES
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Donmeca(m): 8:13pm On Dec 30, 2010
Success: Sullivan Chime for standing up against impositions by Nwodo and for making Enugu look so beautiful. Fashola, Amaechi.

Failure: Chimaroke Nnamani for bagging the Most Audacious Bench-warming Senator Award, 2010. Nkanuland has no  representation in both senate and Reps. Uduaghan, Oni, Ibori, Odili (for thinking of ever being relevant again).

Meanwhile, I see no role models; thumbs up to those doing well and wake up or shut up for doz doing badly.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Lexzycane(m): 9:25pm On Dec 30, 2010
Villain and infact a sinister Gbenga Daniel
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by SmashingM(f): 10:27am On Dec 31, 2010
baby.me:

Is this the Bro Goddy i know? shocked shocked shocked


Or the Akpabiomber i know? shocked shocked shocked
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by kedukc(m): 11:03am On Dec 31, 2010
Role Model: OBJ remains my model, his absence these 4yrs has shown just how much empty political space he filled effectively,

The Dunce: T. A. Orji(Abia gov), the state has become a laughing stock under his watch, sub-zero industrial production, unemployment, intimidation of political opponents, decay of virtually every social service in the state, need i add that educated young people have turned to kidnapping etc. just to boost their cv?
It's pathetic, coming from a state that used to boast of Manufacturing, Breweries, Media outfits, an oil-producing state, fabrication base of the defunct biafra, where tanks were built as far back as '67, PATHETIC.

Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by ALGAMISH: 12:11pm On Dec 31, 2010
Role Model: SANUSI LAMIDO

Villian: PDP
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by goggs(m): 1:26pm On Dec 31, 2010
role model: all nigerians who took any lawfull means to, in their own little way, effect a change in how this country is run.

The villans; all those who did nothing
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Parnassuss(m): 3:33pm On Dec 31, 2010
kedukc:

Role Model: OBJ remains my model, his absence these 4yrs has shown just how much empty political space he filled effectively,

The Dunce: T. A. Orji(Abia gov), the state has become a laughing stock under his watch, sub-zero industrial production, unemployment, intimidation of political opponents, decay of virtually every social service in the state, need i add that educated young people have turned to kidnapping etc. just to boost their cv?
It's pathetic, coming from a state that used to boast of Manufacturing, Breweries, Media outfits, an oil-producing state, fabrication base of the defunct biafra, where tanks were built as far back as '67, PATHETIC.

Gbam!!!! on the Obj remark. i can't say much for Orji though, I hear Elechi Amadi of Ebonyi is just waste of living tissue. Sad.

My heroes this year where - Obj, Ribadu, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sanusi Lamido, Remi Babalola, Chime Sullivan (for developing Enugu to its current state), The Super Falcons, Jaraiya-Sama and Kick-Ass.

Villians are - Ithe Okahs, Boko Haram, Aondoaka, Danbazzau, Sullivan Chime (for side-lining the Nssuka ppl), Dora Akunyili, All NASS members, Prince Ogbolafor, GEJ, Atiku, IBB, Pattiance Jonathan, Uchiha Madara and Danzo.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by olu77(m): 4:58am On Jan 01, 2011
From what I'm seeing it seems there are more villains than role models. sad
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by abacus(m): 10:51am On Jan 01, 2011
Role Model - Tunde 'Sindiku' Bakare (LRA and SNG), Ribadu, Mohamodu Buhari, Sanusi Lamido, Sule Lamido, All comrades who work for SNG success and Didier Drogba

Villians are - Gen. Togo et al. (Militants) , PDP, Alao Akala, Gbenga 'Babalawo' Daniel, Amos 'Idamu' Adamu, Sani Lulu et al. and most importantly GEJ.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by olu77(m): 9:07pm On Jan 01, 2011
No one has explained what makes GEJ a villain.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by AjanleKoko: 7:18am On Jan 02, 2011
Everybody keeps labeling Sanusi Lamido a hero because of his public posturing.
Nobody seems to have noticed his dumb policies. The most interesting one is asking the banks to form holding companies, prompting the likes of Oba Otudeko to resign as FBN chairman and immediately becoming the chairman of FBN Holdings, making him exempt from being removed at a shareholders AGM. He also installed his son on the board of FBN proper. Did Sanusi even see that coming?

as per heroes, for me, the only hero of 2010 is the SAFA, hosting a solid World Cup and putting Africa on the map, despite the naysayers. For us in Nigeria, we continue to suffer misgovernance.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Ddaji(m): 9:06am On Jan 02, 2011
My role models for 2010 are Engr.Hamman Tukur former chairman of RMAFC who spend complete ten years in office without travelling abroad for estacode and without taken any DTA form gov't.my second role model is late Gani(RIP).my villians are Obj andGEJ
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by dumodust(m): 10:22am On Jan 02, 2011
AjanleKoko:

Everybody keeps labeling Sanusi Lamido a hero because of his public posturing.
Nobody seems to have noticed his dumb policies. The most interesting one is asking the banks to form holding companies, prompting the likes of Oba Otudeko to resign as FBN chairman and immediately becoming the chairman of FBN Holdings, making him exempt from being removed at a shareholders AGM. He also installed his son on the board of FBN proper. Did Sanusi even see that coming?

as per heroes, for me, the only hero of 2010 is the SAFA, hosting a solid World Cup and putting Africa on the map, despite the naysayers. For us in Nigeria, we continue to suffer misgovernance.


sanusi lamido's my hero of the year because of his bluntness and boldness in the face of adversity generated by conspiracy and ethnic jingoists, his policies? dont know what to say about that but the ones that were there before were not working, a change was required. i also like this wikileaks guy, without him, we wont realise we had wolves in sheeps clothing amongst us,

villians of the year: all the reps and senators, goodluck jonathan for being weak, atiku and babaginda for being boldly stupid and insulting, adamu ciroma for senility and all of us 'mugu' nigerians that allowed all these bad things to happen without some form of resistance
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by Nobody: 12:32pm On Jan 02, 2011
My Role Models:

Those that are working towards a better Nigeria.

Villains:

Those that are consciously or unconsciously impoverishing Nigeria (Executives, Legislators, Contractors, Comrades, Honourables, Etc)!

May 2011 catch up on the villains and bring them under judgment by all means possible!
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by banom(m): 4:41pm On Jan 02, 2011
Rotimi chibuike Amaechi , the man , his dreams and vision, is my hero.
Re: Role Models and Villains of 2010 by olu77(m): 12:10am On Jan 04, 2011
sweetguy10:

Senator Obahiagbon , a mixture of a model and villain at the same time . I loff him gan , , makes me laugh grin grin grin

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