{"id":29624,"date":"2024-02-08T06:40:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T06:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=29624"},"modified":"2024-02-08T06:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T06:40:36","slug":"prof-yusuf-dankofa-last-testament-on-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=29624","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Yusuf Dankofa \u00a0&#8220;Last Testament&#8221; on Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=19271&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;But they said they are the whiz kids from lagos<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">That the magic of lagos was going to be reignited at the federal level<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Eight months after,it is ebin kpawa<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What really happened<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Where are the heroes of lagos<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What is on the ground shows that the policy makers from eko do not understand governance<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The policy flip flop has created a condition of acute poverty<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Just like one commentator said,only those in the corridors of power are smiling<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The rest are facing armageddon,a state of calamity and brutality<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The politics of the land is toxic as only lagosians are in power, while the other &#8220;O&#8221; states are lamenting<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Cronyism and inner caucus have betrayed the movement<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Emilokan movement is so ordinary and bereft of ideas that grand old Buhari that spent eight years junketing is even perceived to be better.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">So,Emilokan is about the fulfilment of personal ambition<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Even the Imams that were shouting Muslim\/Muslim tickets are busy gnashing their teeth<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They have now become wiser<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">That the Muslim\/Muslim agenda is a hoax<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Now they can&#8217;t go for \u00a0pilgrimage because they don&#8217;t have N5M<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Where will they see the dollar<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Who dash monkey banana<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>No politician is even visiting their mosque anymore<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Even Mr. Vice President has become a motivational speaker<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>He is busy admonishing Nigerians to be of good behaviour since leaders who are to turn things around have lost ideas<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The ideas that were robustly generated during electioneering campaigns have vaporised into thin air<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Now,the singsong by the talakawas is hunger<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Our currency is as worthless as a river that ships cannot navigate<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">You need a bagco cement sack of naira to seek $300<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The economic gurus of lagos have been turned into ordinary finance speculators<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">All those spotless suits and Oxford shoes are just abracadabra<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What happened to years of study at \u00a0Harvard and Yale School of Economics<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Social media have been laughing at them<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Even Zimbabweans and South Africans are having a good laugh<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">South Sudan,a country as poor as anything, is poking Nigeria<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pls where is the Save Nigeria Group<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Where are Professor Wole Soyinka and Pastor Tunde Bakare that gave Jonathan nightmares<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Where are all the lagos musicians<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Where are the Kuti \u00a0brothers<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Have they forgotten their fathers lyrics<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">44 sitting and 99 standing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This is when the talakawa need them most<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Have they forgotten their Uncle Dr Beko Ransome Kuti<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Where are the offspring of Late Dr Bala Usman in this respect<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And where are the Professor Pantamis of this world<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">That cried and prayed that the Jonathan administration should be changed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And what has changed today<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And why are there no prayers to the Almighty that the poor should be rescued<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Lagos politicians have failed the people<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They boasted that it is about brains and not brawl<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This is the regime of the most educated people in Africa<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What a paradox&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Prof. Yusuf Dankofa<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">05\/02\/24<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">ADDENDUM \u00a0&#8230;..<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Prof. Yusuf Dankofa died on 6th February, less than a day after writing this treatise on Tinubu&#8217;s government.\u00a0He was a professor of Law. 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