Date Published: 09/08/09

Dear Editor,

Watch those governing-by-the-press

Some of the sitting governors in Nigeria think that with the way they go on in the Press, they are home and dry. Some section of the media no doubt have sympathy for some governors to the extent that they allow all manner of articles without bothering if such add value to their respective medium, to the governor or even to the masses. Definitely, most readers do dismiss such articles, which are normally planted by agents of the governors.

Almost all the governors seek for this but the glaring ones are Governor Obi of Anambra, Governor Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Governor Ohakim of Imo, and Governor Uduaghan of Delta, to mention but few. We all know that the press blitzes that the governors go into are aimed at the next general elections and mostly perpetrated by controversial ones who try to make issues out of nothing or/and any single opportunity that comes their way not minding if good or bad. Those write-ups end up doing more harm than good to their images and nauseate the readers.

Borrowing from the narrations given by the recently kidnapped but released Pete Edochie and Chief Okeke (transport magnet); kidnapping activities are promoted mainly as a revolt against brazen display of ill-gotten wealth by persons in power. I also tend to agree with Alhjai Maitama Sule that Nigeria needs a serious revolution to get things moving in the right direction again, but one is not advocating for a bloody revolution.

Chief Efosa Fredrick, Ikpoba Slope, Benin City