“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come” -- Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
viodemus: This looks like some kind of combustion and exhaust system. I see three chambers, I can't tell, but it seems like each combustion chamber has it's own exhaust system. I also can't tell if one exhaust chamber can handle all three combustion capacity running at 90% each. I think that because that will tell me how much capacity and efficient the system is.
Overall, this looks like a continuous condensing exhaust system. If it is, that's good because it can handle more capacity. One of those combustion and exhaust chamber is like a generator.
How much capacity is that system? If we already have gas, I suspect that one of the combustion and exhaust chamber (if that's what I think it is) can serve three streets at 10 houses per street. And that's if that's every house is running all their appliances.
Overall, we need to be seeing 1000 of this a month for the whole year, while they invest in other forms of generating electricity.
To conclude in my opinion, this is weak
Your post got me thinking about the need to drill down further. Thanks.
Here is what I culled from Siemens' website.
These power transformers will be part of the first batch of major equipment delivered to Nigeria from Siemens Energy as part of the PPI. With a total capacity of 720MVA this equipment will provide approximately four million households across Nigeria with better energy access.
The overall impact of the PPI is expected to be significant, benefitting homes, communities, businesses, and industry. Local installation work is expected to create and enable jobs for engineering professionals, artisans, as well as small and medium-sized businesses. There are thousands of transformers, hundreds of distribution substations to be upgraded and built, and more than 20 transmission substations to be executed across Nigeria in phase 1 alone.
Reno is cornered. He knows he cannot admit to profiting from GEJ's largesse - like FFK and a host of others - without implicating himself, so a weak response is the best he can offer
Talawaka grabs his bag of popcorn, as it is clear this clash of TANoids is bound to run for sometime.
You started off well but then went off bass when you mentioned one of the most racially stratified countries in the world (Brazil) as a worthy example.
lhordspy: Another touching useless Story of an insignificant woman filled with so much hate for the dead to
You are leaving out Gen. Ojukwu who plunged the igbos into needless war that killed over 2million people including children.
But she is Going after a 96years old dead queen. Who lived her life to the fullest. Who doesnt even know she mrs. uju exist while she(the queen) was alive and even now that she is dead.
How useless you and your opinion are, Mrs.UJU... How useless you are....
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery!
The 96 year old you mentioned knew nothing about your existence as well
candidtalk: Whatever. Let's agree to disagree. We will see what the future holds for all of us in our respective States and region of origins.
Kudos to the 19 Governors of the North for unanimously and officially pushing the State police initiative.
Doubt it can be brought in under Buhari per his innate disinterest in it and the little time he has left in Aso Rock.
Let's keep this on the front burner though so that it becomes a non-negotiable first demand everyone must place in front of the new President to be delivered without delay.
Fair enough.
Like you, I also commend the 19 Northern governors who have now embrace the idea of a state police force.
The 19 northern governors and all the traditional rulers in the region have called for the amendment of the 1999 Constitution to give legal backing to state police.
They said this was the only way to tackle the myriad security challenges affecting the region and the country at large, among them banditry, insurgency, kidnapping and other forms of criminalities.
candidtalk: Racoon was talking rubbish, as usual, and so are you. SW leaders had demands of Buhari that led to them supporting him. Those demands included the reformation of the basic structure of Nigeria.
If Buhari, once President and possessing ultimate power, decided to deviate in pursuit of his own private/sectional agenda then how can that be blamed on SW leaders?
All they can do is learn lessons and ensure history does not repeat itself.
If you claim "SW politicians suppressed their earlier clamour for regional-autonomy, after the 2015 elections" then what credit do you and Racoon give them for being the only set of Nigerian leaders to defy Buhari, their own Party boss and President, to demand what is shown below?
Contrast that with the behaviour of your leaders, to include those in the opposition party to the ruling APC that Buhari heads, who continue to look on irresponsibly while Nigeria drifts.
You people are not fooling anyone. Your main agenda remains to discredit Tinubu and the Yorubas rather than defer to reality that shows that Yoruba leaders, even if not perfect, are the most responsively responsible in Nigeria when it comes to agitating for what is in the best interest of our nation's peace and progress.
Instead of making a song and dance about a position proposed by the El-Rufai Committee, much earlier in the same year (2021), why don't you ask SW politicians to put a proper stake in the ground. If you feel I am wrong, please provide the names of federal legislators from the region who have demonstrated an unwavering as opposed to half-hearted commitment to that cause over time.
The report made key recommendations concerning resource control, making local government an affair of states, constitutional amendment to allow merger of states, state police, state court of appeal and independent candidacy. - El Rufai Report
Why draw my attention to what Fayemi or Akeredolu said in June of that year, when you know fully well that Gbajabiamila and Lawan - Legislators actually empowered to make law - were quick to issue reminders that both governors had barely restructured their own states. Yes, there is much to be said about local government autonomy too.
I don't care about the optics of a photo opportunity, I am more concerned about consistency.
candidtalk: Bruv, cure yourself of bigotry, tribalism and bias. Unless you want to pretend to be totally blind, you cannot feign ignorance of how Tinubu, bar non, is the greatest post-1999 leader and champion of delivering optimal and transformational solutions that directly improved security of life and property for a geographical space he is administratively responsible for.
I have never seen you comment on Nairaland in a way that shows you can be progressive and capable of rising above bias and pettiness. Ditto for 99.9% of your kinsmen.
Did @Racoon lie when he affirmed that Tinubu and other leading SW politicians suppressed their earlier clamour for regional-autonomy, after the 2015 elections? Is it not the case such yearnings now only emanate from socio-cultural groups like Afenifere?
Why is it that some of you never aspire to speak with candour?
But since an elephant never forgets, this was the view expressed 10 years ago.
However, the 19 northern governors met a few days after and kicked against the idea of state police, saying that they were ready to work with the existing police force.
A source close to one of the governors told Vanguard that the northern governors were afraid that their dwindling financial position would not permit the funding of state police like their Southern counterparts, who they claim had more funds than them.
The 19 governors under the aegis of the Northern Governors Forum (NGF) unanimously expressed support for the establishment of state police in a bid to tackle the activities of insurgents, kidnappers and other criminal activities across the country.
The Northern Governors’ stance was contained in a communique issued at the end of the meeting with the Northern Traditional Rulers Council held on Monday in Abuja, organised to “review the state of security in the North and other matters relating to its progress and the development of the region.”
While reading the communique, NGF chairman and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, said the meeting reviewed the security situation in the North and other matters relating to its development and resolved to support further amendments of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) in the bid to accommodate the establishment of state police.
Governor Lalong affirmed that the northern governors and “traditional rulers support the review and constitutional amendment to accommodate the establishment of state police, with a view to effectively and efficiently address the security challenges in the Northern states.
“The Forum reiterated its commitment to the development of solar energy in view of the comparative advantage of sunshine in the region.
“Accordingly, it was unanimously resolved that 2000 megawatts of solar power be developed across the 19 States and FCT,” he noted.
The joint meeting also noted regrettably that the ongoing strike action declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike is more punitive in the Northern region as most of the students across the region are attending public universities.
“Accordingly, the Forum appeals to the ASUU to cooperate with the Federal Government in resolving the strike action.”
According to a statement issued by the Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Governor of Plateau State, Dr Makut Simon Macham, the Northern Governors also engaged officials of the World Bank to discuss the level of implementation of the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) and Nigeria for Women Project which is being implemented in five Northern States.
Racoon: There is obviously more to this Tukur Mamu issue than what the eyes can see. The DSS is not telling us the truth.
This inquiring mind wants to know if he is a journalist or a depraved theologian.
Here are his words in his own newspaper, back in 2017.
I have not seen another Christian, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, wearing the type of dresses Bala Lau and Kabir Gombe wore even on the pretext of hamattan during any of his numerous visits to the West during and after his presidency. As Muslims, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari have visited several western countries that Bala Lau and Kabir Gombe never visited in their lives during snow and winter periods but they always chose to appear as decent and as Islamic as they used to be. I can understand that Bala Lau and Gombe are not exposed to the western world and are probably visiting the UK for the first time in their lives and hence they feel so proud to appear in such dresses, taking pictures in different parts of the UK and proudly sharing such pictures to the whole world. They should have reserved such pictures exclusively for their families instead of embarrassing themselves and the Izala as a whole. If the use of such dress code during foreign visits has any significance or important message to send as far as Islam is concerned, we will have seen such practice from the undisputed father of Izala in Nigeria, late Sheikh Gumi or the likes of late Sheikh Ahmed Deedat during his numerous foreign trips. --- Tukur Mamu
The Department of State Services (DSS) has alleged that its preliminary investigation established the offences of a logistic supplier, aiding and abetting acts of terrorism against Tukur Mamu.
The DSS, in an affidavit in support of its ex-parte motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022 filed before Justice Nkeonye Maha of a Federal High Court, Abuja, also alleged that the investigation established Act of terrorism financing against Mamu, the former terrorists’ negotiator.
DAILY POST had, earlier on Tuesday, reported that Justice Maha granted the motion ex-parte moved by counsel for the DSS, Ahmed Magaji, seeking an order to detain Mamu for 60 days in the first instance, pending the conclusion of the investigation.
The motion was dated and filed on Sept. 12 by U.N. Dauda, a lawyer with the security outfit.
The DSS, in the application, had sought “an order enabling the State Security Service/applicant to detain the respondent (Mamu) for a period of Sixty (60) days in the first instance, pending the conclusion of investigations.”
Mamu is the sole respondent in the suit.
In the affidavit in support of the ex-parte motion deposed to by Hamza Pandogari, a legal officer with the DSS, he said it was necessary for Mamu to be detained for 60 days in the first instance, pending the conclusion of investigations of various acts of terrorism against him.
Pandogari alleged that Mamu, “the self-acclaimed Kaduna train negotiator exploited the opportunity to perpetrate, aid and abets as well as render support to both local and international terrorist organisations.
“That the respondent was intercepted by the Nigerian foreign partners at Cairo, Egypt, on 6th September 2022, while on his way to Saudi Arabia for a clandestine meeting with commanders and top leaders of terrorist organisations across the globe.
“That upon his interception and subsequent repatriation to Nigeria, a duly signed search warrant was executed in his residence and office at No. 4, Ali Ladan Street, Sabon Kawo GRA and No. 14, Mamona Road, Anguwan Sarki, Kaduna State and various exhibits and items to establish his complicity with terrorists were recovered.”
The agency listed some of the items recovered from Manu’s residence and office to include 151 dollars, 20 pounds sterling; 1, 530 Indian Rupees; one Saudi Riyald; 70 Dirham; one million, five hundred and six thousand naira; and 16 assorted foreign coins.
The DSS also alleged that two packs of pump action cartridges; 16 ATM (auto-mated machine) cards from both local and foreign banks; seven cheque books from different banks; six laptops; four tablets; 24 handsets and three international passports belonging to Mamu; one firearm licence; eight pieces of Nigerian Army uniforms; 16 pieces of Nigerian Naval uniforms, were among the 34 items recovered.
The DSS said the “preliminary Investigation so far established, amongst others, the offences of a logistic supplier, aiding and abetting acts of terrorism as well as terrorism financing against him.
“That the defendant (Mamu) has used the cover of his profession as a journalist to aid both local and international terrorist groups.
“That the action of the defendant has orchestrated the untimely death of security personnel in North Central and North East parts of Nigeria.
“That the defendant has discreetly given information to bandits and terrorists that escalated various acts of terrorism in Nigeria.
“That the investigation has assumed a wider dimension and sophistication requiring time and advanced expertise to conclude.
“That some of the suspects working with the defendant are at large and premature release of the defendant will jeopardise the ongoing investigation.
“That it is in the interest of justice and national security to grant this application.
“That the activities of the defendant and his associates at large constitute a potent threat to the unity and peaceful co-existence of Nigeria.” NAN quoted him as saying.
Another COVID-19 palliative have been discovered in Ede Osun State, 2 years after
Who actually verifies what gets moved to the Homepage of Nairaland these days?
After attack on COVID-19 palliative warehouse, Osun government declares another 24-hour curfew
October 24, 2020
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This followed an attack on the warehouse in Ede by an angry mob, where palliatives for the COVID-19 pandemic were looted on Friday.
After the incident, the Osun State Food and Relief Committee said that the food items looted from the warehouse were not directly owned by the State Government.
November1857: I'm Not Moved With Pressure, Threats From Western Associates; African Countries Need Justice – US-based Nigerian Prof, Uju Anya
"I am very happy over the awareness I've created 48 hours ago. The likes of Jeff Bezos and many others have reacted. Questions are now being asked about the "British Empire".
"Factually, Ojukwu and Gowon had a meeting in Ghana, to avert this sad history. But because the British empire which is now under the leadership of King Charles lll were paranoia, they influenced Gowon to go ahead simply because they don't want another Japan in Africa.
"The history books are there. "There was a country" by Chinua Achebe is there for facts!. "The Biafra story" by Frederick Forsyth and many others.
"Let me also state it once again that my family was a victim. There is no family in Igbo land who did not have a share of this sad history. Till this day, there's no apology!!! Again, I only dropped a tweet. The Irish people celebrated it with fireworks. You can check #Irishtwitter hashtag on twitter for emphasis.
Prodigal father - Ayu, according to Wike A serial hustler around food dispensers - FFK, according to Melaye Low-life and godless, ignorant cretin - Melaye, according to FFK
Where my popcorn at? This is entertainment galore. I love it!
Sowore, it is such a shame that Nigerians prefer an MLM-system which only yields poor dividends I know what you mean about the recruitment of one of their boys though.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was a poet, journalist and publisher before he became ceremonial head of state of Nigeria in the First Republic. His compatriot, Dennis Osadebay, was a poet and premier of Mid-Western Region at the same time. One of the pioneers of modern Nigerian literature, Chinua Achebe had a spell with politics, serving as vice chairman to Aminu Kano who was chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party during the Second Republic. With the exception of Wale Okediran, a writer and member of House of Representatives for four years from 2003, Nigerian writers seem to have become expiring species in the ever widening political space. THEWILL wonders why. Michael Jimoh reports…
It is easy to see writing and politics as parallel professions. Nothing, you’d think, connects them in any way. But a closer look shows some similarities between both professions – if politics can be called a profession. Writers and politicians address large audiences with the latter having an advantage in terms of reach and size.
Both also seek to change the society in which they live though in quite different ways. Politicians go on the campaign trail to court and woo voters while writers remain in monkish seclusion when the muse visits. And yet, there are instances of writers becoming politicians and even making it to the presidency.
John F Kennedy is one notable example. His Profiles in Courage won the Pulitzer in 1956. Four years later, he moved to the Whitehouse after narrowly defeating Richard Nixon in the 1960 American presidential election. There is Vaclav Havel, poet, playwright and human rights activist, who also became president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 – 1992 and then of the Czech Republic from 1993 – 2003.
Though the First and Second Republics had three prominent writers who were also politicians, nothing suggests now that writers in Nigeria will take up the dual role of glad-handing voters at public squares and autographing novels in out of the way libraries. Except for Wale Okediran, a medical doctor and writer who was a member of House of Representatives for four years from 2003, no other writer in Nigeria has made it that far since this civilian dispensation began in 1999.
Now with the general elections scheduled for February 2023, it is doubtful if any member of Association of Nigerian Authors or any Nigerian writer, for that matter, will be vying for political office – either as members of state houses of assemblies or the lower and upper chambers.
So, why are Nigerian writers un-keen on making a stab at political office? Are writers closing the door against themselves in Nigeria’s political space? Or is it that they simply lack the administrative skill and organizational ability indispensable to good governance?
To answer these questions, we’ll begin with the last showing that writers are, indeed, some of the best administrators around here.
The Soyinka Example For four years Wole Soyinka was Corp Marshal of Federal Road Safety Corps from 1988 to 1992, automobile accidents dropped to its lowest level on Nigerian roads and highways. Having first recorded the same feat in Oyo state when Bola Ige was governor years before, military president Ibrahim Babangida summoned Soyinka to Dodan Barracks Lagos to do the same thing for the entire country. Soyinka obliged him.
As governor of one of the states with the largest landmass then, Ige would have been briefed and seen firsthand the chaotic traffic situation in his domain – of road users needlessly killing themselves, threat to others either by overloading, over-speeding, driving against traffic, driving vehicles not road worthy or, worse still, driving under the influence.
His close friend and intellectual companion Soyinka was teaching at nearby University of Ife then. There would have been frequent drive-overs from State House Ibadan to Ife and vice versa. The governor would have asked, over one of their numerous lunches and dinners, what could be done to make motorists and their machines better users of roads and highways under his care in the state. In short, what can be done to reduce accidents and traffic offences to a minimal and tolerable level?
Thus was Oyo State Road Safety Corp born and Soyinka as the driving force and pioneer head. With dedicated staff in place, OSRSC became a smashing success in no time, cutting down road accidents in and around the state by more than seventy to eighty percent – the least of all the 12 states at the time.
With that impressive score sheet, IBB mandated Soyinka to perform the Oyo state miracle on a national scale. He did. How Soyinka did it is now very well known – through the highly disciplined pioneer staff he initiated as FRSC. Soyinka didn’t have to look too far for trusted and committed staff of FRSC. The story goes that he called upon and recruited some of his fellow Pyrates Confraternity to help put sanity back on Nigerian roads. They duly responded and, till date, FRSC has earned the respect of road users in Nigeria and even the military that set it up.
Commenting on FRSC’s 30th anniversary in The Guardian of February 21, 2018, IBB himself proudly declared thusly: “Our administration summoned Prof Soyinka to higher national service as the founding Corp Marshal of the FRSC. I am proud to say that the basic foundation of discipline, firmness and commitment to humanitarian service was laid at this period.”
For the four years under Soyinka as Corp Marshal of FRSC, sanity returned to Nigerian roads and highways: drivers drove within a certain speed limit because that FRSC official in a maroon safari hat or beret might just be around the corner; they knew better not to offer bribes because they will turn it down and even hand you over to the police for prosecution along with the initial traffic offence; drivers and their passengers began compulsorily strapping on seatbelts; interstate motorists didn’t dare put vehicles with worn tyres, malfunctioning break lights or faulty headlights on the road.
Without the itchy fingers of VIOs or their equivalent in the police ever ready to shake down motorists, FRSC officials in their smart uniforms stood poles apart from them. Of course, they were more professional, always polite to drivers but firm in instructing them on what to do and how not to break traffic laws while on the way. And then, there was the ambulance crew – complete with medics – ready to apply first-aid treatment at the scene of accident or ferry victims to hospitals.
No wonder fatalities on Nigerian roads and highways reduced drastically at the time. And such was the turnaround in road carnage that staff in emergency units in some orthopaedic hospitals joked that some of them waited in vain for weeks without seeing casualties as they used to. The reason for that success was not so much because of the Soyinka persona but the “foundation of discipline, firmness and humanitarian service” that was the standard of the agency under him.
Now, the point here is not about the success of FRSC but the man who was at the very top at the very beginning. With the “foundation of discipline, firmness and commitment to humanitarian service” engrained into FRSC officials then, Soyinka – though a writer by profession – demonstrated his administrative savvy and organisational ability in running a public outfit and making it work, perhaps, more than any politician ever could.
Could that sense of “discipline, firmness and humanitarian service” be replicated in other government institutions or ministries? It is open to debate. But what is certain is that armed with those three qualities – moral rectitude, a steely resolve and determination to genuinely serve the public – politicians anywhere in the world can make a whole lot of difference in governance.
So, to go back to our first question or to rephrase it: why is Soyinka, or writers like him, those who have the gift of the imagination with far-seeing solutions to immediate problems, not involved in politics?
It’s a Matter of Cash The immediate answer is money. “It takes three things to win elections,” Dave Powers, a Kennedy associate, famously said. “The first is money, the second is money and the third is money.”
Prior to the party primaries last May and June in Nigeria, for instance, candidates of some political parties paid as much as N100m just to obtain registration forms into elective positions. As is now very well known, some even shelled more cash – in foreign currencies – during the primaries making it seem like an important budgetary allocation for a federal or state project. As is also very well known, candidates who spent more dollars defeated their opponents hands down.
Not many Nigerian writers can afford those humongous sums either to purchase the forms, bribe delegates or even the electorate, thus conveniently shutting them out of the race for elective posts now or in future elections. For writers who depend solely on paltry royalties from publishers, where are they going to find such huge sums to start off the wheel of their electoral machines?
There is also the matter of principle. Like most committed writers, many in Nigeria consider politics and writing poles apart, especially in this part of the world. For one, writers sometime become critical of government policies or those in government themselves. It follows that there is no way a writer can be part of a government he serially denounces/ criticises.
Even so, THEWILL could not resist asking one or two writers why some of them are turned off from politics. Uzor Maxim Uzoatu is an outstanding Nigerian journalist, novelist and poet. In his view, “there has been a longstanding controversy over writers and politics. Some purists from Europe would argue that politics compromise art, but man happens to be a political animal.”
In that sense, Nigerian writers have not been quite apolitical as we imagine. “Nigerian writers,” Maxim maintains, “have from time been in politics. Zik was a poet. Dennis Osadebay was equally a poet. Chinua Achebe was vice chairman of Aminu Kano’s Peoples Redemption Party (PRP).”
Those of the First and Second republics even had successors, Maxim contends. “Wale Okediran won election into the House of representatives in 2003. (Okediran is a doctor, writer and onetime president of the Association of Nigerian Authors.) Reuben Abati was a gubernatorial running mate to PDP candidate Buruji Kashamu in the Ogun state contest in 2019.” Younger writers, he continues, “are throwing their hats into the political ring.”
It is true that younger writers are making a stab at politics these days. But they are hardly known beyond their council areas therefore lacking the national appeal to win crucial votes for electoral positions. Poet and bookseller Dagga Tola, is a card-carrying member of National Conscience Party. Headed by the late Gani Fawehinmi when it was founded as a political party, Dagga Tola saw NCP as the right party to be in. For him, the party’s leader represented something close to the conscience of the nation, given his human rights record, his intolerance of corruption – reason for NCP’s motto: “Shine your eyes.”
But without the national spread of the dominant parties, NCP could not even secure a councilorship electoral victory in any of the 774 local governments in Nigeria during the 2015 election and subsequent ones. Ask any eligible voter in Nigeria today who the presidential candidates of the two major parties are and he will tell you off the cuff. Ask the same person who the presidential candidate of NCP is and you’ll probably draw a blank.
Still speaking on writers who were once politicians, Maxim reminded the newspaper that venerable poet, Odia Ofeimun, was a politician during the Second Republic. “Odia was a card-carrying member of the Unity Party of Nigeria under Obafemi Awolowo,” Maxim told THEWILL. “Not only that, he was Private Secretary (Political) to Awo at the time.”
The poet himself had hoped to revive his political career after a dry spell since the mid-eighties, after the military government of Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon terminated the Second republic mid-sentence in 1983. A First Class graduate of Political Science from UI in its halcyon days, Ofeimun literarily surprised some of his colleagues when he announced in 2016 or thereabout he was going to contest as governor in his natal Edo state. He followed it up with grand ideas of what he would focus on as governor even while the election was years away. One of them was to link up all the headquarters and major towns in the state by a modern rail line.
So connected from Benin the state capital like arteries from the heart to the rest of the body in a state with the comforting motto: Heartbeat of the Nation, anyone could see the immediate and incredible advantages of Ofeimun’s dream project. It was the imagination of the writer at work but one without requisite political power or base to see it through.
To contest, he must join a party. The two major parties then and now are not to his taste, for obvious reasons. The only one he found more congenial, Labour Party, lacked the state presence by way of numbers and resources to shoo out either an APC or PDP government in Benin. The poet’s quest ended almost as abruptly as it began.
When the newspaper spoke with Ofeimun recently, he proposed another reason writers are not generally keen on politics. They prefer spending time “writing short witty poems three or so nights” to the life of a politician who must glad-hand or back-pat potential voters out there.
At the same time, the poet and past president of the Association of Nigerian Authors went on, “the politician will still be raising money, carrying people from one part of the country to the other and things of that nature. In a country where politics has become thoroughly monetised, most professionals can’t get into it. That is why there are godfathers everywhere, those who have made a little money, even illiterates, become the godfathers of professors. One of the reasons the best ideas don’t come around politics is that you have to pass the so-called good ideas through people who do not care for the ideas in the first place.”
But how come some democracies had writers who were also politicians, bearing in mind the US, for instance, where as a politician JFK wrote, won the Pulitzer and was resident of the Whitehouse?
“The American case is not a good example,” Ofeimun corrected THEWILL. “America started as a very intellectual establishment. All the makers of the American system were scholars, they were intellectuals who wrote books – whether on the liberal or conservative side – they were writers. They had a sounder beginning than we had.”
On his ambition to contest as governor of Edo state, Ofeimun insists he never wanted to run in that very election. “I wanted to use that election to prepare for the one that came after. But the choice of party that I made – I couldn’t join any of those other parties – the Labour Party that I picked, they do not have the resources to support a candidate who was also not well-to-do. A candidate who is not well-to-do who joins a party that is not well-to-do is asking for trouble.”
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