By Comfort Obi
If anybody
was in doubt of why the civilized world laughs at us, the open letter, written
to the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, by Senator Magnus
Abe, published in the ThisDay newspaper of Wednesday, September
26, puts a seal on the doubt.
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| **Magnus Abe and Rotimi Amaechi |
I read it
three times. And each time, my worries increased, with an exclamation to
nobody: ‘Look at what politicians have reduced our country to.’
Both the
Minister and the Senator are from Rivers state. The former, an Ikwerre man, and
the latter, an Ogoni man. Until politics tore them apart, both were close
friends. And belonged to the Dr. Peter Odili Political family – a family so
strong, so influential, that every who-is-who in Rivers politics, from when
Odili was sworn-in as Governor, owe their current and past “bigmanism” in government to it.
