Osun: EFCC and the war this week, By Festus Adedayo
One of the frames that come out of that presidential intervention is that, the Osun account freeze and even the president’s paternalistic intervention are not isolated administrative blunders, but symptoms of Nigeria’s deep-seated constitutional crisis of centralized executive power.” By deploying presidential directive to overrule anti-corruption processes, the president just reminded us of the dark era of the borderless powers of military juntas.
What the president did with that personally signed statement of his and a purported call to Governor Adeleke, reminds me of a Yoruba proverb which says that one does not recognise the king and still bow to the wooden post – A kì í mọ ọba tán, kí á tún mọ opó.
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