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Resignation rumor: YarAdua's self inflicted damages
By Ayo Fawibe
Nigerians are surely used to the amusing but not pleasing games of deceit and cult-like secrecy of successive
governments. Babangida was fond of traveling abroad to seek medical attention for an undisclosed trouble with one of
his legs. Abacha and his cohorts inflamed the rumor mills with suspicions of a possible kidney problem and his real
state of health was never known till death came calling.
The drama has unfolded again for the umpteenth time, rumors of Yar'adua's unstable health condition has
overshadowed other national issues; even the Niger-Delta oil war took a backstage. Who is fooling who? If Yar'adua
is able to pull the wool over the eyes over a hundred million Nigerians, is it possible for him to fool his own soul?
If the Yar'adua administration has opted to oil the rumor mills by being economical with the truth in management of
public information, then it should have itself to blame. No one should be castigated for recent rumors of his death and
proposed resignation from office. When the public is starved of the necessary information about the machinery of
government and its managers, the only available option is definitely for rumors to thrive.
Nigerians shouldn't lose sleep over the present attack on the media following reports of Yar'adua's purported plans to
resign from office due to ill health. The fall-out of this development is the result of shabby and treacherous approach to
information management in governance. It is expected that our dear president would have learnt the ultimate lesson
from this situation, especially as the whole development must have unleashed a lot of damage to his credibility and ego.
However, there are a few face-saving options for Yar'adua to swim out of the murk y waters. The damage control
strategy has commenced in good stead, with the return of channel TV's license. This would go along way to repair
Yar'dua's newly assumed nomenclature of a new Abacha and it is no surprise that his government suffered serious
image problem over the span of a few days. No repressive action against the news media has ever been beneficial to
any government and by the way, Yar'dua wouldn't be an exception. If the likes of John Odey, Information and
Communication Minister as well as Olusegun Adeniyi, Yar'adua's spokesman had not fed the media with lies about
the number one public figure's trip to Saudi Arabia, then the reportage of information would not have gone bizarre as it
were.
At this point, for Yar'adua to move forward and succeed with his presidency, he has to depart from the old ways of
doing government business. He has to discountenance the notion that the presidency is all about himself and himself
alone. One of such is the current of secrecy being administered on his aides. This is similar to the infamous pledge of
loyalty composed for the Abacha strike force members, which committed them to dark -goggled general and his
family alone.
As Yar'adua battles for good health, he should realize that the president of a country is a national figure that has no
hiding place. There is nothing wrong in the president's search for treatment anywhere in the world, but in this age of
advanced technology and internet superhighway, the Aso Rock lords must note that it may not be easy anymore to
present black as white, just as it was fashionable for previous governments to bamboozle Nigerians. If Yar'adua
chooses to run Nigeria from the space, information flow can never be totally blacked out.
If the government's gam e plan for the Saudi Arabia trip was so foolproof, This Day newspaper publisher, Nduka
Obaighena's stage-managed telephone interview with Yar’adua would have worked wonders to convince all and
sundry that Mr. President was just out there for lesser Hajj and nothing more. The Obaighena telephone interview
strategy was actually a backbreaker as it eventually proved that the Yar'adua government was all out to deceive the
Nigerian populace, especially as it was designed to portray a graphic picture of a healthy Yar'adua with a glass of
juice sitting under the date palms and not on a sick bed at King Fahd hospital. The interview story was carefully
written by This Day Editor (Daily) Simon Kolawole was published in the newspaper's edition of September 1, 2008.
As if that was not enough, the shameless sycophants, ministers, governors and other political jobbers were falling over
themselves in droves to make the trip to Saudi Arabia, for what purpose? Visit a sick president or to help him
complete his religious rites?
Democratic governance is all about carrying the people along, whether it is home grown or borrowed. The wisdom in
government transparency is always evident in those co untries that sold modern day governance to us. Obasanjo laid
the foundation for Yar'adua's present mis-steps as issues about his(Yar'adua) state of health were effectively drowned
by the intimidating use of power of incumbency. Even if the PDP was s destined to win the elections, members had
no choice but to subscribe to Obasanjo's choice of candidate. Unlike the Obamas and the Macain s of this world,
was Yar'adua's health situation ever declared to the Nigerian public, when he was a presidential candidate? The
answer is no, of course, it is not in the character of our rulers to run a true government by the people and for the
people.
The issue now is not about brooding over how Yar'adua emerged as president, but to see if some good might come
out of what some have effectively termed as hopeless situation for the country. As much as the damage is done,
Yar'adua himself actually set the agenda for his present travails and he may have done it ignorantly. Now that
Nigerians are beginning to anticipate that he desires to chart a new course for his administration after that unfaithful trip
to Saudi Arabia, he should wisely seize the opportunity to turn things around for himself and for posterity purpose.
By Ayo Fawibe
Nigerians are surely used to the amusing but not pleasing games of deceit and cult-like secrecy of successive
governments. Babangida was fond of traveling abroad to seek medical attention for an undisclosed trouble with one of
his legs. Abacha and his cohorts inflamed the rumor mills with suspicions of a possible kidney problem and his real
state of health was never known till death came calling.
The drama has unfolded again for the umpteenth time, rumors of Yar'adua's unstable health condition has
overshadowed other national issues; even the Niger-Delta oil war took a backstage. Who is fooling who? If Yar'adua
is able to pull the wool over the eyes over a hundred million Nigerians, is it possible for him to fool his own soul?
If the Yar'adua administration has opted to oil the rumor mills by being economical with the truth in management of
public information, then it should have itself to blame. No one should be castigated for recent rumors of his death and
proposed resignation from office. When the public is starved of the necessary information about the machinery of
government and its managers, the only available option is definitely for rumors to thrive.
Nigerians shouldn't lose sleep over the present attack on the media following reports of Yar'adua's purported plans to
resign from office due to ill health. The fall-out of this development is the result of shabby and treacherous approach to
information management in governance. It is expected that our dear president would have learnt the ultimate lesson
from this situation, especially as the whole development must have unleashed a lot of damage to his credibility and ego.
However, there are a few face-saving options for Yar'adua to swim out of the murk y waters. The damage control
strategy has commenced in good stead, with the return of channel TV's license. This would go along way to repair
Yar'dua's newly assumed nomenclature of a new Abacha and it is no surprise that his government suffered serious
image problem over the span of a few days. No repressive action against the news media has ever been beneficial to
any government and by the way, Yar'dua wouldn't be an exception. If the likes of John Odey, Information and
Communication Minister as well as Olusegun Adeniyi, Yar'adua's spokesman had not fed the media with lies about
the number one public figure's trip to Saudi Arabia, then the reportage of information would not have gone bizarre as it
were.
At this point, for Yar'adua to move forward and succeed with his presidency, he has to depart from the old ways of
doing government business. He has to discountenance the notion that the presidency is all about himself and himself
alone. One of such is the current of secrecy being administered on his aides. This is similar to the infamous pledge of
loyalty composed for the Abacha strike force members, which committed them to dark -goggled general and his
family alone.
As Yar'adua battles for good health, he should realize that the president of a country is a national figure that has no
hiding place. There is nothing wrong in the president's search for treatment anywhere in the world, but in this age of
advanced technology and internet superhighway, the Aso Rock lords must note that it may not be easy anymore to
present black as white, just as it was fashionable for previous governments to bamboozle Nigerians. If Yar'adua
chooses to run Nigeria from the space, information flow can never be totally blacked out.
If the government's gam e plan for the Saudi Arabia trip was so foolproof, This Day newspaper publisher, Nduka
Obaighena's stage-managed telephone interview with Yar’adua would have worked wonders to convince all and
sundry that Mr. President was just out there for lesser Hajj and nothing more. The Obaighena telephone interview
strategy was actually a backbreaker as it eventually proved that the Yar'adua government was all out to deceive the
Nigerian populace, especially as it was designed to portray a graphic picture of a healthy Yar'adua with a glass of
juice sitting under the date palms and not on a sick bed at King Fahd hospital. The interview story was carefully
written by This Day Editor (Daily) Simon Kolawole was published in the newspaper's edition of September 1, 2008.
As if that was not enough, the shameless sycophants, ministers, governors and other political jobbers were falling over
themselves in droves to make the trip to Saudi Arabia, for what purpose? Visit a sick president or to help him
complete his religious rites?
Democratic governance is all about carrying the people along, whether it is home grown or borrowed. The wisdom in
government transparency is always evident in those co untries that sold modern day governance to us. Obasanjo laid
the foundation for Yar'adua's present mis-steps as issues about his(Yar'adua) state of health were effectively drowned
by the intimidating use of power of incumbency. Even if the PDP was s destined to win the elections, members had
no choice but to subscribe to Obasanjo's choice of candidate. Unlike the Obamas and the Macain s of this world,
was Yar'adua's health situation ever declared to the Nigerian public, when he was a presidential candidate? The
answer is no, of course, it is not in the character of our rulers to run a true government by the people and for the
people.
The issue now is not about brooding over how Yar'adua emerged as president, but to see if some good might come
out of what some have effectively termed as hopeless situation for the country. As much as the damage is done,
Yar'adua himself actually set the agenda for his present travails and he may have done it ignorantly. Now that
Nigerians are beginning to anticipate that he desires to chart a new course for his administration after that unfaithful trip
to Saudi Arabia, he should wisely seize the opportunity to turn things around for himself and for posterity purpose.
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