Thread by @DrOlusesan

THE PROBLEM WITH LAGOS WORLD VIEW
When he was announced president-elect, Joe Biden acknowledged he will make mistakes and would try to correct them. Buhari failed woefully in this regard. But to ask, accountability warriors, how well are you accountable to yourself, to learning?

Y'all will goof less, if you will restrain yourselves to arguing within your limitations. Its very easy to remove 1000 pupils from a school in Sahel North. I served & lived 2yrs in Yobe, where houses are separated by more than 50 kilometres of desert sand in places like Yusufari.

The point is, there are a hoarde of Nigerian twitter citizenry, who have become bewitched with faux pas infallibility standards, induced by a myopic internet psychology of irrational beliefs. Nonetheless, nothing would have changed, if Buhari is the type that admits fallibility.

Did Buhari not say he will lead war against Boko'haram from the front? Baba don calm down, tasting in real life, enormity of Nigeria's problems. For his conscience, he should admit his failings; not because of keypad activists who can't manage mere romantic affairs with women.

The burden of govt is enormous. So also is the burden of development. British colonial govt started constructing narrow gauge railway from Lagos in 1896. It didnt get to Nguru until 1929! It took 33yrs under conditions where Nigerians were driven like slaves with hardly any wage!

Nigeria doesn't end at your state capital. Before contriving an abhorrent notion of what it takes to govern inland Nigeria and its borders, take a trip from Jakusko in Yobe to Funtua, Katsina; from Biu to Ikom. Obudu mountain range alone can swallow the entire Lagos population!

Daily temperature in Tulo-Tulo, Yobe averages 47°C. It's easy to wonder why others didn't submit themselves to serving as policemen in these places, but not a single one of the people running social media commentary about banditry in the North will agree to spend the night there.

Its descent to limit ourselves to discussing Lagos bad roads, despite that the embezzlement Orji Kalu got away with in Abia is the same amount Babangida built 3rd Mainland Bridge. These are issues within our reach, since discussing corruption in the judiciary have become sacred.

There's nothing wrong with asking more from govt. But you will not die, if u also seek to understand scale of problems before pontificating from a beer parlour. Attenuate your criticisms with existing realities, instead of acting like Dele Momodu, a foolishness embodied in flesh.