Tinubu’s flyover fury: Why is Mr. President mad?, By Adeola Akinremi
When a sitting president stands in front of traditional rulers, men whose authority predates the republic itself, and essentially says watch your governors, ask them where the money went, he is doing something Nigerian democracy is starved of: inviting scrutiny downward, past the federal capital, into the state houses where financial strengthening of the governors’ grip on the states require citizens audits, thereby placing citizens above politics.
So here is the assignment for every Nigerian watching a flyover rise over an empty road in their state: ask who authorised it, what it cost, and what did not get built because of it.…here is the assignment for every Nigerian watching a flyover rise over an empty road in their state: ask who authorised it, what it cost, and what did not get built because of it.
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