By Reno
Dear Honourable Minister Lai Mohammed, Greetings and
congratulations on your recent and well deserved appointment as Nigeria
*Lai Mohammed
The purpose of my
letter to you today is in response to your statement made on Monday the 21st of
December, 2015, in
which you accused former President Goodluck Jonathan, whom I served as one of
three spokesmen, of being responsible for the current excruciating fuel
scarcity now subsisting in Nigeria
Your exact words were "What I will be telling Nigerians is that what we met on ground is such that we are paying for the sins of the last administration...One of the reasons for the fuel scarcity was the inability of the last government to make adequate provision for fuel subsidy".
Your exact words were "What I will be telling Nigerians is that what we met on ground is such that we are paying for the sins of the last administration...One of the reasons for the fuel scarcity was the inability of the last government to make adequate provision for fuel subsidy".
My candid take on your
message to Nigerians is that it is an abdication of responsibility on your part
and does not project you and the government you represent as being responsible.
Government, as you very well know, is a continuum. One government takes over
from where the other stopped and to say that an action in December of 2015 (six
months after ex President Jonathan handed over to the incumbent on May 29th,
2015, ) is the fault of the last President, is to confer super human powers on
Jonathan.
