After nearly two weeks of political controversy, grandstanding and mudslinging, it’s beginning to emerge, I believe, that the reintroduction of the national anthem that ushered Nigeria into the comity of independent countries in 1960 was after all not entirely the brain child of either one-man or the complacent national legislature that appears to be at his beck and call.
That same government, under Obasanjo, went on to nationalise both the British Petroleum and Barclays Bank and renamed them, respectively, as African Petroleum in July 1979 and Union Bank in April 1978. In general terms, it rejected the big brother attitude of the British government under James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher.
When everything becomes grist for the criticism mill of opposition elements and their supporters, including issues such as the removal of oil subsidy that they had all committed to in the run-up to the 2023 elections, it may be difficult for the targets of the criticisms to view them as anything other than the typical attacks that politicians like to lob at one another even when they would not do things differently, if not worse, were they given the same opportunity to make important decisions.
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