I am sharing this story, courtesy of my dear friend, Alfonsus Nanna, not because of any political affiliation with the former Governor of Anambra State, but to serve as a wake-up call to all Nigerian public affairs commentators. It is high time to focus on the positive vibes and the great minds worthy of public office.
It shouldn't be problem analysis all the time. Let's find the time to analyse solutions and the way forward. Also, it shouldn't always be about all the bad leadership, but let's find space in our clouded judgment to identify the true patriots, the gifted ones and those who exhibited a forthright sense of service when they served.
President Buhari is larger than life today, despite the enormity of the bloodshed all over Nigeria, because the majority of the commentators are so self-centred that they can't identify virtuous attributes in others. They loathe alternative views with passion. Yet, you desire to change.
For instance, who amongst all of you haters of Buhari is rooting for Atiku, Sowore, or Donald Duke, or even Peter Obi? Who do you stand for? Who do you want to run against President Buhari? You're too selfish with your brain power to seek out the good guys from the lots and endorse them or write about them.
Must you have a graduate degree in public policy or public administration to know how to write in simple language on how to move Nigeria forward? If you can identify the problems, invariably, you can fathom solutions. But you don't discuss solutions.
What I find most disgusting is that even at some supposedly enlightened what's up groups, you see people copying and sharing trivialities about Nigerian problems. What about solutions? Who is sharing the news about the good guys and the positive stories?
The author of this story about Mr. Peter Obi deserves an award. Because what he did is what is missing today in our public space.
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Former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, was invited by the Chief Tax Officer in Onitsha to present evidence that he has paid his tax for six years.
Peter Obi decided to honour the invitation himself.
He came along with his aide and showed the Chief Tax Officer, Mrs Nwakpudolu Juliet, not his six-year tax clearance certificate, but his twenty-year tax clearance certificate showing that he has paid tax of N204 million.
He said that it is important that citizens pay their taxes and that he was impressed with the way the chief tax officer invited him.
Impressive.
Very impressive.
This is how it should be done: When people say you don't have something, you present it, not to hire twenty SANs to defend you, or to keep quiet, or to blame someone else for your crimes.
If it were some people, they would have started alleging that some people want to witch-hunt them by demanding their tax certificate.
Not Peter Obi.
To him, tax was something that ought to be paid.
The man's simplicity baffles me, honestly.
When he was governor, he could pass by without your knowing that a governor just passed by.
Before he left office as governor in Anambra state, he invited both the EFCC and the ICPC to check the financial books of Anambra state to ensure that no money was missing.
He used to calculate the number of bottles of wine left after the meeting of the State Executive Council, and ensure that the leftover is presented in the next meeting for drinking.
Someone said he used to buy flight tickets himself so that he would not pay more, despite being a governor.
The projects he did are there for all to see, and he even left billions in the coffers of Anambra State while handing over.
That man is one of Igbo's finest, and people like him should be called in to redeem Nigeria
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Former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, was invited by the Chief Tax Officer in Onitsha to present evidence that he has paid his tax for six years.
Peter Obi decided to honour the invitation himself.
He came along with his aide and showed the Chief Tax Officer, Mrs Nwakpudolu Juliet, not his six-year tax clearance certificate, but his twenty-year tax clearance certificate showing that he has paid tax of N204 million.
He said that it is important that citizens pay their taxes and that he was impressed with the way the chief tax officer invited him.
Impressive.
Very impressive.
This is how it should be done: When people say you don't have something, you present it, not to hire twenty SANs to defend you, or to keep quiet, or to blame someone else for your crimes.
If it were some people, they would have started alleging that some people want to witch-hunt them by demanding their tax certificate.
Not Peter Obi.
To him, tax was something that ought to be paid.
The man's simplicity baffles me, honestly.
When he was governor, he could pass by without your knowing that a governor just passed by.
Before he left office as governor in Anambra state, he invited both the EFCC and the ICPC to check the financial books of Anambra state to ensure that no money was missing.
He used to calculate the number of bottles of wine left after the meeting of the State Executive Council, and ensure that the leftover is presented in the next meeting for drinking.
Someone said he used to buy flight tickets himself so that he would not pay more, despite being a governor.
The projects he did are there for all to see, and he even left billions in the coffers of Anambra State while handing over.
That man is one of Igbo's finest, and people like him should be called in to redeem Nigeria
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