alexzanda's o.p.i.

WANTED URGENTLY:

PRESIDENTIAL ADVISERS

President Jonathan

Students' protest at the gate of UNILAG

UNILAG students protest against renaming their school

UNILAG students in protest

 

 I am not concerned that Mr. President had to rename the University of Lagos.

Neither am I provoked that students of the institution are seriously enraged about this name change and are daring Mr. President for a showdown on the streets of Lagos.

This is my utmost worry:

Does Mr. President have the right persons guiding him as advisers or is his entourage of political appointees, an assemblage of sycophants?

You think I'm not making sense?

 Where were his advisers when he, Mr. President, decided to take on FIFA for size by interfering in the affairs of Nigeria's football governing body? An action that led to the counter-action from FIFA to ban Nigeria from international football affairs in 2010 which in turn prompted Mr. President to withdraw his ill-advised interference.

Or should we talk about the 2012 New Year gift Mr. President gave to Nigerians; the removal of fuel subsidy? An issue that is still stirring up dust to the point that facts from the National Assembly probe seem to be pointing to earlier submissions that fuel subsidy removal by the government is a fraud engineered to exploit Nigerians.

Why do we have to hear things like, "it is illegal for Mr. President to change the name of the University Of Lagos without the input of the National Assembly?"

Why should Mr. President’s actions put the integrity of the person of Late 

Late M. K. O. Abiola

M. K. O. Abiola in disrepute when consultations would have made known these scenes playing out now and adequate measures provided to handle them? 

Where were the advisers in the face of all these scenarios?

Did they not take or do they choose to so easily forget their lessons on the importance of Public relations?

Is Mr. President surrounded by persons who are there to say "YES SIR!" rather than those who are suppose to say "This is what the existing laws say about your thought of action and these are other lawful alternatives and morally ethical options to your suggestions?"

In the hope that this is just the problem, Mr. President must have himself immunized against these sycophants as I have taken a bold step to advertise for Good Presidential Advisers.

 

But where the problem is that of not taking caution to seek advice or paying less attention to good advices...I doubt if I can advise on a solution!