Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has described the coronavirus pandemic in the country as a blessing in disguise because it has exposed Nigeria’s poor political leadership.

Okogie in a statement on Sunday wondered why the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration would spend billions of naira on cars for lawmakers with­out planning to build hospi­tals to contain emergencies such as COVID-19.

He, however, commended Lagos State governor, Baba­jide Sanwo-Olu, and his team for efforts made so far in tack­ling the virus in the state, say­ing the governor has provided outstanding and exemplary leadership.

“The outbreak of COVID-19 has been a danger­ous yet revelatory moment in Nigeria.

“It is dangerous because this deadly pandemic has infected over a million and killed thousands of citizens of our planet. No one seems to know when and how it will end.

“But COVID-19 is also reve­latory, a blessing in disguise because it has exposed Nige­ria as a country where quality of leadership is of low grade. What we have known but de­nied for so long is now shown to us as an incontrovertible fact: that the quality of lead­ership in our country must improve.

“In the midst of poor-qual­ity leadership, however, Nige­rians must speak in laudatory terms about Governor Baba­jide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, his Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, and his entire team for rising to the occasion.

“For right or wrong rea­sons, Lagosians have been critical of his government since its inauguration on May 29, 2019. But it must be admitted that with a popula­tion said to be close to 15 mil­lion, if Governor Sanwo-Olu and his team had not provid­ed outstandingly exemplary leadership, we would have had a more dangerous situa­tion on our hands”.

“At the risk of making a hasty judgment, it is to be placed on record that as at the time this was being written, Governor Sanwo-Olu and his team had largely prevented the spread of the virus in La­gos. Let us pray for them and encourage them so that they will continue to show exem­plary leadership to other polit­ical office holders in Nigeria.

“COVID-19 has also re­vealed to us that rather than invest in good healthcare service delivery in Nigeria, we have a political arrange­ment that makes it possible to waste Nigeria’s money on government officials and health tourism abroad.”

Okogie also said the Na­tional Assembly members must forfeit their humongous allowances and channel the money into improving med­ical services in the country.

“Thanks to our country’s constitution, government in Nigeria is embarrassingly big, sinfully expensive, prone to corruption, and scandal­ously inefficient.

https://www.independent.ng/coronavirus-has-exposed-nigerias-poor-political-leadership-okogie/

This is idiotic, we don't need coronavirus to know that we have bad leaders.

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This Is Arithmetically Contagious

This Present Govenment Is A Virus To Its Citizenry.

We had a non-existent leadership

which virus Corona

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This Present Govenment Is A Virus To Its Citizenry.