NIMI AKINKUGBE – ONCE MARRIED, SHE BECOMES ONE AND ALL
Shebi Abike Dabiri dem were falling on their knees and be shouting I cannot breathe over the American issue that no concern us? Now see the storm now over my sister Nimi’s appointment as Ambassador representing Ondo State. They are saying that she is not indigene o and that the fact that she has been married into an illustrious Ondo family does not give her the Ondo blood. When will our people start accepting that once a woman is married into a family she become an integral part of that family, whether she originally from another state or not. The moment she is married she become a citizen of her husband’s state and her such entitled to all the opportunities and privileges of that state. The pounded yam in her system has not reached minimum levels. Do you blame them? NO! I hear the Constitution backs their claim, I don’t know how true that is as I no be lawyer but then again it is the tragedy of our lives. Where the ‘where you come from’ comes up as a pointer instead of the expertise and capacity that will come to bear. So the fact that this consummate banker and powerfully internationally exposed brain would be bringing tremendous pride and value to the table, all our people are saying is that ‘in all of Ondo, are they saying they can not find an Ondo man worthy? Please put our neighbourhood palm wine tapper there, he is the son of the soil and we are ok. Me, I no blame them o, why is their own different? But you see were Lagos different, those ones from number one through to the godfather down to almost every Local Government Chairman na outsider. Ogun State has annexed Lagos since and there has been no problem. In fact if you don’t like it as a Lagos indigene, you can jump into the lagoon. Laugh want kill me, didn’t even know that the late Senator Pepe was Ogun State. Anyways, that is not the gist. I think we should legally and socially seek for a change in narrative. This federal character thing is as archaic as they come. A serious state should be jumping up in joy to be represented by such a person as Nimi and not be engaging in such backward thinking. Na so the Cross River man dey do him own on the matter of the Chief Judge.