Emir Lamido Sanusi : A Powerful Position

You see, me I don’t joke with this personality. He has continued to be my main man ever since I saw him in Marina trying to buy boli while he was still at UBA. That day, his lean frame and not-too-expensive bow tie drew me to him. Remember, I also wear a bow tie so I always take more than a passing interest when I see a fellow bow tie-wearing juggernaut. That fateful day, I moved closer and watched how he meticulously chose the boli, asking for the very burnt ones and then buying like four wraps of groundnut. What really intrigued me that day was how someone will take four packs of groundnut on one boli, well that was his style. He did not pay, apparently he was a customer and the seller was only just too glad to serve this personality. So you will agree with me that I can never see anything wrong in any position my colleague ‘bow tie-killer’ - that is what we call ourselves in the fraternity - takes. You see the Emir’s last public bombardment on the economic development of the North East and West plus the North’s attitude towards social issues like the girl child education resounds so loudly in my ears. We need our leaders to be this forthright, talk with candour regardless of whose feathers is ruffled. Picking and choosing our words have not led us as a nation to anywhere, truth in its naked form must be said at all times with the hope that its bitterness will trigger us to action. So emir, what you said is the truth and it is not only in the North, the whole country is a morass of poverty, disease and squalor. We are all swimming in the murky waters of desolation and the fault lies squarely on the feet of our leaders including you and me, who is now a Duke. Anybody who does not like your candour can go and jump into the lagoon and if there is no lagoon in the North, they can bury themselves in the sand. The only wahala in this your royal activism is what exactly will you do as emir to practically jump start this meaningful change. It is not only to shout on a podium which I support very strongly, it is also to begin to lead by example. I hear the emirate council treasury is very deep, let us start from there in putting in place very strong and robust philanthropic initiatives that would gradually begin to change the landscape. You can also use the platform of the very influential emirate to galvanise and mobilise resources from others to intervene in the poorest of the areas and while you are at it, please do not forget the Dukedom of Shomolu; as one royal father to another you have to send some of your philanthropic initiatives towards this side too. We too are very poor here and would not mind some level of support in acquiring the kind of Rolls Royce you are driving as I believe it will create a lot of employment for my people. You ask how? Let me tell you. Is it not someone that would wash it, that is employment, is it not someone that would guard it, that is employment, is it not someone that will drive it, is it not someone that will sweep the road that it will pass, is it not someone that will control traffic when I am passing, is it not someone that will blow the bugle as I am emerging from my palace? Abeg, emir, please send the Rolls Royce, we royal fathers have to stick together. After all, what else can we do without a constitutional role?