GODWIN OBASEKI – CARELESS WHISPERS

It was my friend Tony Omoregie who dropped this report on the Duke Summit. The Duke Summit is a political WhatsApp group that has major people discuss the Nigerian situation in a robust manner. I say na fake news. No public official can make this kind of statement, especially an official like Obaseki, as an investment banker. Tony say no be fake, and before you knew it somebody else posted a video of him making the statement. Thankfully the authorities have come out to debunk it. But me I know, say na true, the authorities have done the right thing by trying to calm nerves and throwing doubt into it. You see this kind of talk by my brother Obaseki is what they call loose talk. Real loose talk and this is why in government we have a kitchen cabinet. With this kind of talk any time they want to take very serious confidential decision, will they call Obaseki into the matter? A government official must be very cautious of statements. This kind talk of printing money can scare aware foreign investors, throw the economy into a tailspin and make economic analysts begin to review their positions on Nigeria’s prospects in the view of the hyperinflation that the act can throw up. This kind of information should be carefully managed, with strategic economic managers carried along and sensitively engaged. It is not information for the public because it will lead to panic, hoarding and capital outflow, to say the least. So this Obaseki, if na IBB time, we would have been seeing frog jump and koboko in the Edo buttocks. But this na democracy and immunity so we will leave him. But his managers should do more work in engaging His Excellency, this diarrhoea kind of talk will not bode well for us. Ok as for the printers, na wa sha. Is this where we have found ourselves? Wuruwuru to the answer?