By Adekunle Adekoya
It was
actually very pathetic reading reports of apologies made by Power
Minister, Adebayo Adelabu, earlier in the week. Reading his apology nearly made
me puke; they were the words of a politician used to, and schooled in, dressing
up inefficiencies in mandate actualisation with rhetoric.
For years,
since I was a boy (that’s as far back I can remember), this country has
struggled with electricity. My late father (Chief Adewale Adekoya, 1933-2017),
like millions of others living or dead, hoped many times in his lifetime that
the problem would be solved; it didn’t till he passed on. Adelabu’s words: “I
want to apologise to Nigerians, officially now, coming from me as the Minister
of Power, for this temporary issue that is leading to hardship being
experienced, especially during this dry season, where there is so much heat
everywhere,” he said. He then went on to remind us about what we all know, and
are already suffering.
