ADEBAYO ADELABU: A FUNNY KIND OF MINISTER

This is one Minister that I used to sha ignore. He will be wearing a cap like one going to one huge Owambe at the famous Island Club with chubby fine boy cheeks that shows that this one na “aje butter.” He showed his aje butter status the other day when he was explaining to us how to save power costs in these trying times. He sat behind plenty microphones and was gesticulating on how we should “off our freezers.” His solution to this wahala is for us to be “offing our freezers” and to show that he had done his research very well. “Some of you, when you go to work, you will leave the freezers on and the thing will be chopping light,” – my words. Then the clip I saw concluded with the admonition, “Some of you go abroad abi…” If not that the man looks like one man that used to like to spray my late wife Mena at owambe parties, I would have really yabbed him. But since I like him and the fact that the man that he looks like used to really spray Mena to the point that we used to get our house rent, just by my wife dancing to KSA’s “ma fo wo ko be yen,” I will only advise him and not yab him. A minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a member of the Federal Executive Council in trying to justify the humongous increase in tariffs should not be bothering himself with freezers, fridges and condoms- yes o, if we allow it, they will soon tell us that the heat that condoms generate during action is also “chopping light.” But instead, he should tell us about the cost of infrastructural deficit, the effect of Forex on components, the cost of distribution since we hear that generation is not the problem, and also very importantly the huge public and private sector debts being owed to the industry and its crippling effects. Even though we will not agree, it is still more ministerial to toe that path instead of coming down to the kitchen and telling the Duchess to regulate the use of blenders and other such appliances. By the way, Hon Minister, what of security lights nko? What should we do with that one, and also let me just tell you very clearly that the AC in the maid’s room must also be permanently switched on. Don’t worry we will pay. Not a problem.