Nigeria as Federal Republic of Asiwaju? Why not! By Ikechukwu Amaechi
At the rate some public officials are going, no one should be surprised if a bill surfaces in the National Assembly tomorrow seeking to rename the Federal Republic of Nigeria as the Federal Republic of Asiwaju.
He is aware that while state governments can fund and construct airports, like the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, which was built by the good people of Imo State in the Second Republic, they do so under strict federal oversight and must hand over operational control to federal agencies like the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) because only the federal government has the constitutional mandate to regulate aviation matters and airports in the country.
When Minister of Works Dave Umahi announced on Thursday, July 16, that the Federal Government has renamed the 750-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, which is still under construction, after President Tinubu, he was just mimicking other public officials in a rat race to name public infrastructure after the president – a case of sycophancy on an obsequious boulevard taken too far.
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