Tope Fasua: Through the Fire and Back

It looks like it was “Tope Fasua” week on X - that thing they used to call Twitter. Tope, like you all know, is an economic adviser to this government in the Vice President’s office. You see, Tope is my friend but he no dey hear word. When he was appointed, I had mentioned to him to pull back from public advocacy since his utterances will now be seen as that of the government. I also mentioned that he was too junior in the scheme of things to be making proclamations that would and could be seen as the government’s position. But he said he would be ok. Well, he wasn’t ok last week because he got the abuse of his life on social media over some utterances that even me sef I saw as irresponsible. When the hullabaloo was too much, I asked someone to send me the remarks, because I will never go to that thing they call X for anything. If you see the way they have finished Prof. Soyinka, you sef will run from the thing.

When I saw what Tope wrote, I screamed. Tope was quoted to have said that banks should lose their licences for damaging the economy or hoarding forex or something along those lines o. I will forget that Tope is my friend and lambast him. Nigeria is bigger than our friendship. Tope, that was the most irresponsible and vacuous statement to have ever been made by any public official since Lugard was made to sign the amalgamation by his side chick, Flora Shaw. Where did you put the CBN, the regulatory body that is regulating the banks in all of these? Abi you did not hear that the banks operated under the regime of Melchizedek who brooked no opposition? Instead of you people to sit down and look for a way out of this quagmire you are there looking for who to blame. See my brother, I repeat my advice, if you are not careful, you will run into a storm that may consume your career with this your public advocacy. You are now in government and must be seen and heard very rarely. You must clear your utterances with your seniors before releasing them. You are part of a hierarchy, a system and cannot be running around like a drunken sailor and saying every and anything that catches your fancy my brother. This is beyond you, if you know you have no reasonable advice to give your principals based on your offer letter, is it not better to just leave the place and come make we resume dey chop our afang for Duke’s summit instead of exposing yourself to little children that were not even born when you were doing JAMB to be exposing your big fat pimples filled backside like that Yoruba actor who exposed himself on the beach for Tinubu during elections. My brother, you no try. No vex say I yab you but if you vex, he no matter. We are in a fight for Nigeria, there will be casualties.