Browsing: Israel Ebije

It is indeed pertinent to intimate that the floodgate of self based interest, reckless greed, over bloated ego, pride, impunity, disconnect from the people pushed the PDP out of its soaring political height. We may therefore recall that the erstwhile ruling party was accorded similar goodwill the All Progressives Congress is presently enjoying on account of prolong military rule

The politics of hate, witch-hunt has indeed denied Nigeria trillions in money worth and immeasurable human and material hemorrhage in peace and unity value. Sadly we have carcasses of truncated projects and jettisoned policies on account of the senseless rivalry instead of ‘discreet’ continuity for the good of all. Noble laurel, Prof. Wale Soyinka averred, “deleting priority projects is sabotage and economic crime against the nation”

The latter expression is said to have originated from the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the “buck,” as the counter came to be called, to the next player

The APC, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jonathan Vatsa, blamed the huge debt hanging on the state and the indifference of the state government to the reckless loans collected over the years by the Aliyu administration