Thought For Today

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

It is not just about hanging on the current "President of Southeast extraction" and/or "Igbo President" sing song. It is about having a political platform with a national outlook.

Buhari with his massive following in the Northeast and Northwest could not become President, even after a 3-time attempt.

It was only when a national political platform was made available to him in 2014/2015 that he was able to make it.

Presidential contenders from the Southeast should reach out and build political synergies across all the regions.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet, IIM Professional Fellow, MIT Chief Data Officer Ambassador and Founder/Publisher of, www.publicinformationprojects.org)

[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

Big English.  The only national political platform that was mainly from the South East was NPP and even that was the baby of late Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim (politics without bitterness fame) and Solomon Lar and TOS Benson and Adeniran Ogunsanya who stood by Nnamdi Azikiwe from the old Herbert Macaulay NCNC days.  Even at that NCNC went to play second fiddle to Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa's NPC in 1959.  NPP went to play second fiddle to Shehu Shagari's NPN in 1979.  APGA the only Igbo party is an appendage of PDP.  The truth is there is no internal Igbo cohesion.  That is what is needed first before reaching out.  I agree that there is no perfect cohesion in any political arrangement solely based on ethnicity, there are degrees of cohesion.  IBK

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AN ENGLISH NURSERY RHYME

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But leaves the greater villain loose

Who steals the common from off the goose

 

The law demands that we atone

When we take things that we do not own

But leaves the lords and ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine

 

The poor and wretched don’t escape

If they conspire the law to break

This must be so but they endure

Those who conspire to make the law

 

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

And geese will still a common lack

Till they go and steal it back

 -        Anonymous (circa 1764)

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Petroleum is not going to become "worthless" despite the propaganda of the Western World, just that its economic value would decrease.

Come to think of it, what about the natural gas which is found in oil deposits? 

The natural gas compresses the oil underground, so drillers must pass it before reaching the oil.

Because they do not want to incur extra production costs and because our environmental laws and enforcement are either non existent or weak, the largely foreign drillers flay the valuable natural gas instead of exploiting it for commercial purpose.

This is by no means an argument against diversification. Countries, businesses and individuals must of necessity diversify their means of legitimate income.