The most amazing thing happened Thursday.
Amazing, because in a rare Freudian slip, the Governor of Lagos state, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola revealed what he really thought about old people in governance. Splashed on the Front Page of The Tribune on Thursday the 15th of January, 2015 was the headline ‘Agbaje too Old to Rule Lagos’.
Speaking at the Sky Power Play Ground venue of the Lagos West senatorial campaign of the APC governorship candidate, Mr Akinwumi Ambode, Governor Fashola went on to say today, at 52, I am counting the number of black hair on my head. Akinwunmi Ambode is the man that can do it. If you put an old man there, he cannot do it.
If you call him in the night, he may not pick your calls, Now, Governor Fashola is a man of reason, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria at that.
Being a man of logic, will the learned Governor agree with me that if Jimi Agbaje at 57 is too old to rule a state within the federation, then it stands to reason that an even older Muhammadu Buhari at 72 is then too old to rule a bigger territory than Lagos, in this case the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
What makes Governor Fashola’s inadvertent truth more embarrassing is that this is the very man who, with his party, mocked President Goodluck Jonathan for saying that General Muhammadu Buhari who could not carry out his vision for Nigeria during his days as a military dictator in the mid ‘80s when he was at the prime of his life, may find it impossible to do so now when he may be too old to remember his phone number!
The APC unleashed its propaganda machinery to take on President Jonathan for his factual comments and described it as petty for want of something accurate to use in rebutting the President’s truthful words.
I wonder what the APC would have said about their own comments on Agbaje if it had been said by somebody from the PDP. Double standards would be the undoing of the APC!
By Reno Omokri
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