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North is winning...

From credible words and actions comes credible men... Alfa I trust you on this.. God bless Abba Kabir Yusuf.. God bless Kano state.. God bless Nigeria..

LikeAking:
I never hear of dis governor b4..

How will this ring road drag Ekiti state people out of poverty.

Government must build cottage industries and provide 247 electricity.

Infrastructure Projects Are Only the Tip of the Iceberg of Governance

Have you ever wondered why boat accidents, market fires and buildings collapse continue to happen unabated? That no matter how much we mourn such tragic incidents, the next one is just around the corner? It is because we the citizens have allowed our politicians and leaders to reduce governance to just the execution of construction and procurement projects. As a result, any other area of governance which requires nurturing, inspection, monitoring, enforcement etc hardly get their attention. Once they could display new construction or procurement projects in their regular newspaper advertorials, everybody is happy that their politician is "performing." We have made governance to look so easy which makes just about anyone to want to step forward and contest.

Under the new paradigm which we have come to accept, a politician would construct new city highways and flyovers but wouldn't bother to control traffic flow or keep the same new streets clean. He would construct and equip new hospitals but remain uninterested in the levels of manpower in them. He would also not notice that maternal mortality remains very high in the state and childhood immunisation coverage is so low that previously forgotten epidemics were returning. A state government would build new schools without an accompanying interest in enrolment figures, quality of teachers, education inspectorate functions or trends in school certificate and UTME pass rates. A brand new "modern" abattoir could be commissioned but the inspection mechanism for the safety of meat would still remain very weak. And when new "ultramodern" markets are commissioned, no one would bother to keep returning to enforce fire prevention rules until the next big fire incident.

Our politicians now only have enough attention span for new projects and procurement. Any remaining time that they have is spent on politicking and the pursuit of populist religious causes. Back in the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, construction projects were a small part of governance called "public works." A lot of the time and energy of leaders were spent on campaigning for school enrolment and vaccination, spraying stagnant water to deter mosquitoes, promoting adult education and enforcing law and order etc.

We the citizens are to blame for this unhealthy transformation from holistic to single-item governance. We keep celebrating politicians who only do construction, procurement and populist religious causes, while disregarding other aspects of our daily lives. Ask your local politician what he is doing about the increasing rate of sexual violence in his state, for example, and watch the confused expression on his face. Whenever you take them away from contracted projects, they become lost! We have to stand up and tell them that there is a lot more to governance than new infrastructure projects.

Insha Allah Atiku will be Nigeria's president come 2023..

#Atiku/Okowa�

A well constructive write up.. Only people with prudence will understand and digest the content..

Jos matter no b small o.. Jos Plateau state capital is d worst...

Cursed is any country that has someone like Buhari as their leader..

ThrownBack:
Nonsense

They should come and see the worse place where I work, and yet I don't go about killing innocent civilians just because I was given a gun to protect them.

shut up u Gay! Enemy of Nigeria.. God bless Nigerian army.

Power to the people...

ThrownBack:
Yes, after Wike saved PDP from collapse, Atiku came back from dubai and threw Wike out like trash.

If its you you will accept your fate?
They did same to Odili, Amaechi and now Wike?

When u fail to calculate ur every move in politics things like dis are bound to happen.. Power is mostly taken not given, and dis is where smartness and permutations sets in. Atiku is smarter than Wike, infact Atiku has more brain in his little finger than Wike has in d whole of his head..

This Wike of a man should accept his fate and move on jhoor! I guess lost count of people he cheated & Bulldozed b4 he attained his current position.. Na so e be 4 politics oo..

Power to the people.

Done.. first bank 3149550191

Yahaya Lawal Zakariyya 3149550191 FirstBank... I need food seriously

I do not live in any of the above mentioned locations, but i seriously need food... Hungry is killing me n my family.. My location is Jos..

Yahaya Lawal Zakariyya FirstBank 3249550191... God bless u Ishilove Omolawal32@gmail.com

Omolawal32@gmail.com Yahaya Lawal Zakariyya FirstBank 3149550191 God bless u Mayan

Cursed is any nation that has someone like Buhari as a president.. Buhari is brain dead!

Its true walahi coz I'm a living witness.. It's like Jos and Moscow share boundary... The cold dey do any how dey impregnate women any how... Sun no dey comot again...

Bumps ehhhn..

Seun is consistent!

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