Without a doubt, the President and governors in Nigeria are insanely powerful, more powerful than some of us have ever imagined. What some people may not know is that the control room behind these powerful beings is actually the chief of staff, the chief organiser. In most cases, the chief of staff organises the itineraries of these key political office holders and their political kinsmen. More importantly, this officer determines who gets access to the principal officers; this is where the critical questions begin to develop the legendary k-leg.
If you expect Long Range to serve as an undertaker in the raging controversy surrounding the metamorphosis of a non-existing office to a ghost agency and the ultimate transmutation into a key office of government, I may have to disappoint you. This is not because of a reported court case, which is bound to suffer miscarriage, but because I hate wasting my time on a journey whose destination has been determined before the journey begins at all.
The current controversy and the flurry of allegations between President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, and the self-styled Director General, Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, Mr Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, is just another chapter in the evolving Nigeria’s one-week-one-scandal democracy that’s regrettably taking shape under the watchful eyes of our dear Tinubu, respected for his political sagacity and deft touches. Sadly, our leaders do not read; so, he is not likely to read this one either or anyone close to him.
