Browsing: Ola Emmanuel

 In the course of discussion, one of the national officers of the group frankly pointed out an issue. According to him, the south west has been lagging behind on all government interventions from the centre (especially agric intervention). ‘Do you know why’, the Abuja man asked. He went further to answer his question: ‘You people are highly educated; therefore any information passed unto you, instead of responding on time,  you will first digest it one hundred per cent and start thinking ‘o, this one is going to be like this; o, that one is going to end like that’. And why you are doing that, other regions are enjoying the interventions and are going ahead of you. Yes, let me tell you: people from northeast, northwest and north central, they follow like zombies. When they say ‘do’, they do (without asking many questions) and they keep on benefitting (from what is coming from the centre)’. Come to think of it, how true or otherwise is this man’s assertion? South westerners have their ways of living. Among others, they believe so much in individualism, and are so engrossed in self-adulation. They query intentions a lot and are rationale thinkers. As good as these attributes may seem, the downside of them are so obvious. That’s why they have been missing out in the sharing of the commonwealth even when it is so glaring that they form part of the stronger oxen that are threading the corns.