Funny that Prof Ogunleye does not seem to have a first name. There are so many professors in that part of the world that I would very much love to know who I am dealing with.
It has been quite tedious following the presentation of revenue data by Ogunleye. I am reluctant to take him on point by point since I disagree with most of what he wrote. Hence I will fast-forward and answer the primary question that he posed, "Who said the North is feeding fat on Nigeria?"
I do.
I have to make one clarification though. The North is feeding BUT NOT GETTING ANY FATTER. The North looks like a bedraggled poor cousin. This is neither acceptable nor safe. Hence the emergence of Boko-Haram.
I have to make one clarification though. The North is feeding BUT NOT GETTING ANY FATTER. The North looks like a bedraggled poor cousin. This is neither acceptable nor safe. Hence the emergence of Boko-Haram.
Some individuals are fat, but they do not constitute the North. The impoverished, uneducated, marginalized, abandoned northern masses cannot by any stretch be described as fat. They have not been prepared to benefit from the rightly touted investments by the likes of Dangote. Why are a majority of his investments outside the North? That is a true disaster.
Prof Ogunleye should advise us regarding which states can survive on their own without the injection of petroleum funds derived from the Niger Delta. Apart from Lagos State.
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