By Habib Bello
The major problem with the democracy practiced in this corner of the globe, is the foolishness of the politician and fellow citizens alike.
This may sound like an arrogantly partisan remark, but it is not. Wherever one happens to be on the political spectrum, everyone agrees to that fact. Each person would describe foolishness differently, no doubt, but no one denies that it’s there.
If anyone is still in doubt, let him attempt the explanation of the action of a Senator of the Federal Republic, Shehu Sani by commissioning a badly constructed, grammatically abhorrent piece of writing by a certain obscure Shiek Abdulaziz Ibn Baaz, a self-styled public affairs analyst.
The piece, entitled “How Uba Sani Masterminded the Rejection of the $350 Million World Bank Loan is by every description the peak of display political naivety and bankruptcy of ideas out of desperation.
For Shehu Sani to have paid for that badly written trash presumably for the consumption of the people of Kaduna state, is a further suggestion that the public can no longer look to the political class as being interested in either what the people want or what they need: not unless it’s going to directly impact upon the people’s propensity to vote for them so that they get to stay as part of that political class.
This lack of sophistication bordering on artlessness displayed by Shehu Sani is yet another testimony to how much of his life and career have been characterised by a steely circumspection.
There is no other way to describe the attempt by Sani to scapegoat in a situation for which everyone knows he is the architect: depriving the state of the goodies of democracy that could have been enhanced if he had not stood against the grant of the World Bank Loan dutifully solicited by the state government.
One wonders what statement Shehu hopes to make by that write-up while it is common knowledge that Uba Sani, the obvious target, is a part and parcel of the government that sought the loan.
Naivety is therefore when Shehu believes that the Kaduna state public would accept that Uba Sani who is clearly as angry as the rest of us at Shehu unpatriotic stance against the loan award could at the same time have been the mastermind of that action.
More evidence of Shehu’s naivety is in the double face exposed by that write-up which he sponsored. Here is a man who cheerfully boasted that he had blocked the grant of the loan to Kaduna state now cheerlessly struggling to convince readers that he had allowed it but Uba Sani blocked it. So ridiculous!
Both Senator Shehu Sani and his social media goons need to undergo a serious psychiatric check.
Bello is a member of Uba Sani Solidarity Front (USF), and wrote from Tudun Wada, Kaduna.
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