“It is good when those we voted for are allowed to govern. We can talk to them; advise them; chastise them even. How does one begin to approach a carpetbagger? He knows that you know that he did not win the elections. The only people he owes anything are the bands of thugs who he has paid off and disbanded. The people? They don’t exist.”
Source: Nigerian Muse: Destiny beckons on Mimiko, the Iroko of Ondo
This is one statement that resonates really well with not only events in Ondo state by across Nigeria. Carpetbaggers run the government and every socioeconomic component of our lives! True.
August 7, 2008 at 7:40 pm