Nigeria: Anenih, Oshiomhole And Development in Edo State

14 July 2011
opinion

NOW the balloon has been deflated, the bubble has burst and I can see clearly now. All my veneers of euphemism and dream like visioning have been washed bare.

In my write-up on Governor Adams Aliu Oshiomhole in December 2008 in the Guardian, I lifted the Comrade-Governor almost out of the human horizon into an almost perfect and faultless celestial hemisphere. But today I have never felt so disappointed in any human form, especially in recent times, as I have been in Governor Oshiomhole. This is so because I expected so much from the former labour leader who I conjectured would translate his idealism into realism in his governance of Edo State.

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