The Fashola's Tragedy and the Search for a Mamman Kontagora in our Works Ministry.

He gave three HUGE Ministries to one man, to make him a Prime Minister at the expense of a Vice President - a protege of Asiwaju, the Cabal wanted to be rendered irrelevant in the administration. But there was a backlash. A HUGE one. The Vice President turned out to be a very intelligent, likeable, and a workaholic smooth operator. The Prime Minister? A HUGE failure, a disaster. No drive. No vision. No audacity to quit. This video testifies volumes.

This is Benin/Ekpoma/Auchi/Lokoja/Abuja Federal Highway - a major land transportation gateway in Nigeria. Almost 4 years in power, Prime Minister Fashola and his inconsiderate Master, who has never given Nigerians any cause to doubt his rumoured alien status, can't figure out what to do with the Highway.

This appointment, which has not troubled President Buhari, given its woeful outcome, is enough to disqualify him as a President.

President Buhari's number one problem, nepotism aside, is his total disconnect from what is truly Nigerian - our reality, our expectations. He is not the sociable IBB or the populist Aminu Kano. He doesn't know anyone outside his Kano/Katsina axis. This is no joke. It's our dilemma - a national tragedy.

He couldn't appoint Ministers or form his cabinet for months. And after he did, he doesn't know when and how to replace those performing below expectations. And he hasn't the faintest idea of who to hire to breathe excitement and dynamic flavours into a dysfunctional and tasteless assemblage of a bunch of opportunists.

A few days ago, it was widely reported that he had any clue about the gentleman the Cabal appointed as the DG of the DSS.

How can you push a change philosophy when you are inadequately schooled in the culture of dynamism and social ethics? Change needs human characters - change agents - to evolve.

His "unNigerianness" in character and behaviour feeds into the narrative of the Cabal's invisibility and supreme poise. In other words, the Cabal is irreplaceable and essential because President Buhari doesn't know who is who in Nigeria.

President Buhari should borrow a leaf from President Ibrahim Babangida on how to form a cabinet. He had the best Executive team ever constituted in Nigerian history. His top picks were of the Igbo and Yoruba extractions - Kalu Ndika Kalu, Chu Okongwu, Olu Falaye, Professor Akinyemi, etc. Nigeria did not fall. But made great.

His Council of Economic Advisers was headed by the fearless theoretician, Professor Ojetunji Aboyade, an Economist from the Obafemi Awolowo University.

That he didn't hand over power to Moshood Abiola is a different matter. He built the largest middle-class and incubated a new mega-city called Lekki.

The late Major General Mamman Kontagora, IBB Minister of Works, made "Man of the Year" by the Newswatch Magazine in 1985 or thereabouts, was photographed spending nights and days, sleeping by the roadside, inspecting Highways under construction. Don't forget that the administration built the Third Mainland Bridge. Where is Fashola today? A HUGE waste!

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