Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Thursday declared Nigeria a dysfunctional state, citing the diverse challenges the country has been facing which have impeded her path to greatness.

Also, the governor lamented the country’s drastic fall from her highly revered place in the international community, which he said, was once coveted and respected by several countries in Africa as well as globally.

He expressed concerns about the declining status of Nigeria in the comity of nations in a press release by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Hakeem Bello, on Fashola’s annual lecture delivered on Christmas eve at the Yoruba Tennis Club, Lagos Island, thereby decrying the growing scale of pretence that all “is well with Nigeria”.

Rhetorically, the governor sought to know what kind of a future “do we desire and what kind of effort or sacrifice are we willing to make to earn it. It is not as important to speak about what lies behind Nigeria, but more about what lies ahead of her.”

He said the questions “represent a moderation of the current realities that Nigeria has become dysfunctional as a nation because not only has her ego been bruised and her national pride brittle where it even exists.

“Many nations who either once looked to her for assistance or leadership will rather now seek not to be openly associated with Nigeria. As if that was not bad enough, those who dared not look us in the face at one time are no longer restrained in making scurrilous statements about us.

“We seem to have fallen, like Humpty Dumpty, from an Olympian Height. Indeed like Humpty Dumpty, we are blessed with great men and women. However, unlike Humpty Dumpty, I believe we can put Nigeria together again in a manner of speaking.”

He, however, said putting Nigeria together again would not happen simply by saying so, which he pointed out was indeed “a starting point and a good one that indicates the people’s resolve. It will also require everyone to unite their minds so that action can also be united.

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Humpty Dumpty kwa? GEJ don suffer

ndu_chucks:

Humpty Dumpty kwa? GEJ don suffer

When did we fall?? was it during Buhari's maddness, IBB's cocaine regime, Abacha's killing chambers or Obj's one man rule?

atlwireles:

When did we fall?? was it during Buhari's maddness, IBB's cocaine regime, Abacha's killing chambers or Obj's one man rule?

Regardless of when the falling started, it has become a free fall as we speak and our President doesn't seem to know how to break this fall. Frankly it is unfair to expect him to break the said free fall when he is not even capable of keeping PDP intact.

From Jonathan to Jonathan to clueless fisherman to Retardeen now to Humpty dumpty

This mumucious president

^^^Old fools, what has this got to do with GEJ?

As expected, Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised Governor Babatunde Fashola over thiese comments on the state of the nation, describing his positions as “exaggerated political punches” aimed at running the nation down.

In a statement yesterday, Lagos PDP Chairman, Hon. Olatunji Shelle, said the governor’s ‘Humpty Dumpty’ comment about the situation in the country was in particular exaggerated and misplaced.

that DAYOKANU na badt guy ...now I know why on the other thread He was calling GEJ Humpty Dumpty . Hmmm! Fashola, I hope you are preparing to go higher to Aso rock because we need pragmatic brains like you there.

Humpty Dumpty nah primary school rhymes now

I just watched a hollywood movie with American Soldiers at the border of Nigeria.


Get ready guys the war is coming, then we all finally go our separate ways.


Light and darkness have nothing in common.


Yorubas we know u love this one nigeria more than anybody else, so wat next?