NIGERIA RULING CLASS: FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT, FANTASTICALLY BINEPT, FANTASTICALLY INCOMPETENT, AND FANTASTICALLY INSENSITIVE - JAYE GASKIA

President Buhari and British PM Cameron

I know that the most topical issue in Nigeria for a while now and particularly today, at least for the ordinary citizen is the lingering phenomenon of unavailability, scarcity and significant spike in the price of petrol. And for very obvious reasons, not the least today’s astronomical hike in the pump price of the product, this issue will continue to dominate public discourse and shape public action for some time to come.

So knowing and understanding this why do I appear to be focused on corruption and the congenital and historically intrinsic incompetence and ineptitude and insensitivity of the Nigeria ruling class? The reason is simple. The substrate of corruption powered by impunity has contributing significantly to the nurturing of the incompetence, ineptitude and insensitivity of Nigeria’s ruling elites is what has brought us to this penkelemesi, that is this state of peculiar mess to borrow from the immortal expression of one of Nigeria’s first republic leaders, the late Adelabu of Ibadan.