Thread by @toluogunlesi

In governance and policymaking PMB and PYO don’t treat PDP Governors as ‘opposition’. And its heartwarming to see the Governors also reciprocating - PDP Govs don’t treat them as ‘opposition’ President/VP.

This should be the norm, tbh - but in Nigeria it hasn’t always been so.

I don’t know of any PDP Gov since 2015 who doesn’t deeply respect the President & VP. (Pls don’t call Fayose’s name lol. That one was an aberration).

And its a genuine respect - based on, I know these guys are not here trying to oppress or cheat me (Unlike some past Presidents)

Everyone gets what is due to them - regardless of party affiliation or politics. Bailout, Paris Club, Social Inv, etc. The 1st completed project of #EnergizingEducation was in Ebonyi. Ebonyi also benefited early from PFI. Rivers has one of highest No’s of NPower beneficiaries.

The simple fact is that - every Nigerian equally deserves the actual benefits of democracy, regardless of how they vote. And that’s how the President and VP have chosen to deal with every Governor and every State in the country. (Contrary to all the false narratives being pushed)

Me I will continue to remind everyone of this. If need be we will take journeys down memory lane to see how previous leaders treated Governors considered ‘opposition’.

These are refreshingly different times. And hopefully we will never go back to the old ways.

“Because declaration of state of emergency had been wrongly used by Obasanjo to remove governors, whom he had political differences with, those who thought they loved GEJ more than himself kept clamouring for it to be used to checkmate Govs.” — MB Adoke thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019…

“Obasanjo, still thinking the state of emergency could rightfully be used politically & illegally the way he‘d applied it during his tenure, tried to mount pressure on GEJ in his early days in office in 2010 to apply it to the Ogun crisis, his home state.” thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019…