Olayemi Cardoso: My Consolations

Kai, I really hope this oga is on BP meds. It cannot be easy watching the major indices of your performance go rogue on you. As far as Nigerians are concerned, the exchange rate is all that matters today. Everybody is watching it as it wreaks havoc on the economy, driving inflation, engendering an unprecedented food crisis, fuelling insecurity, amongst others.

Cardoso today is on the hottest seat in the land and I must say I do not envy him. A banker of a tepid reputation. A chairman of a bank with only six branches and an initial early stint in a global investment bank. Nothing in his past prepared him for this position at this time except being part of the dream team that helped Asiwaju “build Lagos.”

Yemi, my egbon, looks beaten. He has thrown everything at this fire including the sink and the thing is still raging. He lacks the weight to pull in international help and is also fighting forces that he cannot even see.

Me, I pity him o and have been praying for him. This is not his fault, he just found himself as a “little nice man” in this huge position at this time that we need mercurial and robust leadership.

I don’t know what else to say to him than to advise him to just quietly  run away. He can go to Grenada, that place where that woman did party and live a very quiet life, or even come to Uyo so I can give him one nice young lass who will be cooking afang for him daily because from where I am seated, this is truly beyond him. Kai. Pele egbon mi.