SANWO-OLU – RMD’S APPOINTMENT IS COMMENDABLE

My Excellency, how have you been? Let me first congratulate you on your new buses. Marvellous. I am writing you because I have seen a petition from some people who have called themselves something of indigenous Lagos asking for the removal of versatile actor Richard Mofe Damijo as Chairman of the Committee on Entertainment. First, my lord, the money sef is small sha.

But much more important, if we want to start using merit as a basis for appointment to produce the Nigeria of our dreams we all yearn for, where do we start from but cosmopolitan Lagos? If you ask me, this is a very strong appointment which I want to believe came out of your need to achieve something with this Fund. You must have looked at credibility, integrity, and experience.

That RMD is eminently qualified cannot be contested. That there are a thousand and one Lagosians who can do the job and even better does not mean that the state of origin should be of critical consideration in taking this decision. We must begin to bring capacity to bear on things like this—the commissioner for culture in Akwa Ibom na Yoruba man.

El-Rufai media man na Yoruba man. Asiwaju Tinubu as governor brought Ben Akabueze into his government, and he performed credibly well. A Yoruba man – Olumide, runs the biggest mall in Akwa Ibom and owned by the government. So, if we are to take RMD out, let it be that he is not qualified or messed up and not because he is not a Yoruba man. This is not the Lagos or should I say the Nigeria that we want to bequeath to our children.