Category: Editorial

• Can we conduct census less than three weeks after general elections? We don’t think so

Barring any unforeseen circumstance, another national census would take place in the country from March 29 to April 1, this year. This was disclosed by Nasir Kwarra, chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC).  ”From March 29 to April 1, our staff will be in the field enumerating people…This census is going to be different from past censuses. The theory and practice is essentially the same, but we are using high-end technology to conduct this census and it is such that nobody can tamper with any figure. Nobody will be counted more than once,” Kwarra told State House reporters after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on January 20.

Kwarra also disabused the minds of people who believe that nothing good can come out of the exercise, as in the previous censuses which ended on controversial notes. According to him, “We are visiting households to do direct interface with the household, collect data and in the past, if you are doing an operation manually, it is very cumbersome, but this is being aided by technology and I believe it is going to be transparent and very fast and it is going to be verifiable because we are able to provide data up to local government, up to wards level. So, it is something that you can always verify.”

We have always had these assurances of fair and credible census in the past. Yet, they have not led to any acceptable census.

The reasons are not far-fetched.

Census in Nigeria is not only about knowing the estimated number of people in the country at any particular time, with the aim of giving government an idea of how to cater to their needs, the demography and all. In many cases it is used more for political and economic purposes. Population figures in the country have remained perpetually contentious because of certain cultural or religious beliefs. People in certain parts of the country see counting of people who are still alive as an abomination. They believe that people who present themselves to be counted could suffer certain misfortune or even death. Some people also run away from being counted because they believe census is used by government for taxation purposes.

There will always be problem if we continue to use population as a basis for resource sharing, ethnic dominance as well as determination of political and economic statuses. All of these lead to record doctoring, whether by under-counting as in the case of taxation or in over-counting in the case of revenue shariing, hence rejection of the outcome of nearly all the censuses we have had.

Lagos State, for instance, rejected the nine million population that the 2006 census said it had whereas the same exercise declared Kano State with 9.4million as the most populated state in the country. The then state governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said “The figure is totally rejected…The database is faulty. It has to be discarded”,

conducted its own census and came up with 17.5million as what it considered the authentic population of Lagos.

Although we agree that deploying technology can facilitate conduct of this year’s census, as the commission itself hopes, the fact is that technology will still have to be operated by human beings. So, the result would still depend largely on what is fed into technology or what technology is instructed to do. Those in charge of the exercise must first understand the need to be honest on the job for technology to produce desired outcome. Moreover, we need ample time for adequate preparation and planning to make the exercise worth the while. People still need to be sensitised on what is required of them and we do not see this happening even now, with just about two months to the census.

A word of caution, though. We know that national census should be conducted periodically, at least once in every 10 years, and since we conducted the last exercise in 2006, some 17 years ago, we are long overdue for another. Even in places where there is accurate census with generally agreed outcome, the statistics gathered over 17 years ago can no longer be adequate for planning today, not to talk of our peculiar situation where we don’t have the technical or the political requirements for an accurate census.

But then, the census is too close to this year’s general elections. The elections start on February 25 with the presidential election and elections for the Senate and House of Representatives while the state elections follow two weeks later, that is on March 11. This is barring any hitches. To think that we can begin census less than three weeks after the elections is taking confidence too far. The NPC can only insist that March 29 is sacrosanct if it is not interested in a credible national census.

We implore the commission to reconsider this point and shift the census to a later date this year. Conducting a census in a big country like ours is an expensive venture. There is no point holding one at a time like this when the result is likely to be inconclusive. This is not the time to waste scarce resources.

• Buhari commissions major projects that set Lagos as the state to beat and an economic hub in the sub-region

It was a week to demonstrate what sets her apart as the famed ‘Centre of Excellence’ and one which leads while others follow. Last week’s two-day official visit by President Muhammadu Buhari to Lagos, the first by the president since the inception of the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration in May 2019, certainly went beyond the typical ritual of presidential visits. Described as ‘‘A Festival of Project Commissioning” by the state government, the visit proved to be much more; it seems to have challenged the typical stereotypes of failed leadership and bungled dreams routinely peddled about the country by citizens and non-citizens alike. Nigerians were, through those iconic projects offered an alternative view of a country that cannot only work, but one that could be made to work.

Take the Lekki Deep Seaport, commissioned by President Buhari shortly on arrival on Monday. Currently the largest sea port in the country, the $1.5 billion facility is a joint venture of the Federal Government through the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Lagos State government, the Tolarams Group (the owner of the Lagos Free Zone), and China Harbour Engineering Company.  What made it particularly noteworthy is that its development was actually begun and completed during the Buhari administration. By its completion, Nigeria’s potential in the global maritime business would appear to have been firmly established.

Or, the 32-metric tons per hour Lagos Rice Mill in Imota, Ikorodu. Said to be the largest in Africa and third largest in the world, the rice mill with a capacity to produce 2.8 million bags of 50kg bags of rice yearly is projected to generate about 250,000 direct and indirect jobs. Part of the beauty of the project is the collaboration with such states as Kwara, Sokoto, Benue, Borno and Kebbi, to meet the paddy requirement of the mill. Something of a touchstone in the nation’s quest for self-sufficiency in rice production, the mill represents the boldest signal yet of a nation primed to put a final closure to that dark chapter of its dependence on foreign rice. 

What of the first phase of the intra-city Blue Light Rail from Mile Two to Marina? The project, the culmination of several reforms in the transport ecosystem of Lagos, and which has been in the womb since the time of the Bola Tinubu administration, was also commissioned by the president. The first phase, which spans 13 kilometres, has five stations; Mile 2, Suru-Alaba, Orile Iganmu, National Theatre and Marina, is expected to move about 250,000 passengers daily. For the commuters on that busy traffic corridor, it is finally a dream come true.

And then the MRS Lubricant factory in Apapa, a wholly private sector initiative also commissioned by the president. The 200 million-litre lubricant plant, said to be the first of its kind in West Africa, has the capacity to produce 1,700 different products. It promises to boost the nation’s foreign exchange earnings, through export, as well as meet the needs of neighbouring countries.

The icing on the cake is of course the iconic John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History, a recreation and tourism spot for the preservation and enhancement of the understanding of Yoruba culture. A major catalyst for domestic tourism, it stands as yet another testimonial of a leadership that truly appreciates the import of tourism as a major revenue source.

These are certainly not the usual run-of-the-mill projects. They are projects that are as impactful as they are truly transformational. Aside opening the state to the world, they make the state more livable. The state can expect to reap multiple bounties in terms of high-paying, direct and indirect jobs, more money into the treasury and by extension the much needed foreign exchange for the country. After all, we have seen some state chief executives roll out the red carpet to commission flyover bridges, culverts and other relatively inconsequential projects; worse, some governors have done little else than whine and lament the lack of funds to execute developmental projects, even when there is pretty little sign of quality thinking, let alone hard work going on in their domains.

Lagos has proven to be different; it has by those projects drawn attention to what is possible even under a somewhat defective, stifling federal arrangement.

We commend the successive leaderships in the state since 1999 for being able to create the ambience that made those investments possible; there is a lot to be said of the synergy without which the private sector would not have been able to partner with the state government to deliver on those landmark projects. Equally remarkable is how each succeeding administration has, while building upon the foundations laid by those before it, set upon it its own unique vision of development and project implementation – all in a continual, unbroken chain. This is how things should be. In fact, this is what other states should be doing.

Now that Lagos, nay Nigeria, has signaled its arrival in global business, the world expects a matching culture of excellence in product offering and service delivery. Nothing of the so-called Nigerian factor – the ready byword for shoddiness and mediocrity; the new port must be made to deliver world-class service without those age-long bureaucratic dysfunctions that marred the operations of the earlier ports. The adjoining infrastructure, the roads in that axis in particular, would need the urgent attention of the Federal Government if only to stave off the nightmare that Apapa has become.

The much that can be said of the rice mill is that those appointed by the government to run it should be allowed to do their jobs as befitting a world-class entity. In other words, it must be allowed to run purely as a business. The same with the rail service; Lagosians deserve services comparable with anywhere in the world. Same also applies to the lubricant company; it must conform to the global best practices in every respect. In all, the standard, at all times, must be excellence, with the Nigerian factor kept firmly at bay.

That is the surest way to ensure that Nigerians derive maximum benefits from the landmark investments.

CBN governor is turning House invite into a distraction over currency renewal

A face-off was afoot as the past week wore to an end between the Central Bank governor Godwin Emefiele and the House of Representatives over the January 31 deadline to phase out the old Naira bills and replace them with the new.

While asserting its sense of independence, the CBN chief has indicated that the lawmakers were treading beyond their legal limits by asking the top bank to extend the deadline of the currency change by at least six months.

We concede the independence that Mr. Emefiele has been asserting. But what the lawmakers are saying reflects concerns in cities and remote parts of the federation  about the slow grind in implementing the CBN plan to mop up the old money and supplant them with the new.

The CBN governor believes that the 90-day deadline gave Nigerians, rich and poor, enough window to ensure they got rid of the old bills and came into possession of the new.

Yet, the reality cannot be escaped. The old Naira notes are still in circulation, and it is not just because Nigerians do not want to comply with the new directive. It is basically because the new bills are few and far between in not only the urban areas but also in rural reaches.

This developments and anxieties led the House of Representatives to summon the CBN governor and the managing directors of commercial banks to answer nagging questions and clarify issues for the lawmakers and Nigerians on why the matter should move out of a logjam.

But Mr. Emefiele and the bank MDs shunned the lawmakers on Wednesday January 25th and subsequently on Thursday January 26.  The excuse for the Wednesday absence was that the invitation reached Emefiele’s office late. That led to a postponement to the next day. While the house was in session, the CBN chief sent in a letter that he was in Dakar as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s delegation.

That excuse seems puerile. If the CBN governor could not attend, did he not have competent hands to stand in for him? The apex bank has a handful of directors who understand the intricacies of Emefiele’s job and they could have been asked to answer the queries of Nigerians over this matter by addressing the lawmakers’ concerns.

By law, the House of Representatives stands for the people of the country, and for whatever reasons, if the august body summons a public servant to address a public matter, it is the duty of the servant to honour it. If they cannot, they can send somebody to represent them. What Emefiele did was an act of contempt. The speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, said the CBN governor risks arrests for his disdain. He has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest to the Inspector General of Police to compel Mr. Emefiele to attend the proceedings. The House had planned to take a four-week break for members to focus on the upcoming elections. But the speaker asked the lawmakers to indulge a sense of patience until Tuesday next week.

Meanwhile, the January 31 deadline looms with an intransigent central bank. The reason it says it will not change its stand is that all banks have been asked to extend their working hours and the anti-corruption agencies, the EFCC and ICPC, have been advised not to monitor or punish persons who haul in large sums of money. They have also set up cash swap centres in local government areas across the country, especially in rural areas.

“We called on the Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to extend their working hours and to work on weekends. There is no reason to talk about a shift. The new currencies are available,” said Emefiele.

Yet, we have witnessed incidents where citizens have demonstrated not just resistance to this new turn of events but also ignorance. The issue of depositing the money may be less troubling than the availability of the new currency notes.

“Our mint is producing and we are supplying the banks. We have super agents in underserved areas like riverine communities, and CBN staff members have been out on mobilization,” Emefiele noted.

But the facts on the ground contradict this assertion. It is either the CBN governor is not in control of the situation, or he is not telling us the whole truth. Sightings of the new notes tend to happen at high society gatherings and parties and they have turned the notes from the rights of the average citizens to commodities that they sell at cut-throat prices. This is unacceptable.

In an efficient atmosphere, no one should get the old currency when they go through the banking halls. Is it a case of sabotage? The CBN governor has not addressed it. Rather he implies the apex bank has enough currency in circulation. So why are Nigerians not having them?

These are the concerns that made some lawmakers, both in the House and the Senate, to call for a postponement to allow the new notes gain currency. Rather than make this an ego matter, the CBN governor should act like a civil citizen and appear on the floor of the House.

More importantly, he should take charge and make the transition between old and new a flawless affair. A stand-off with the House is not what the speaker wants, hence he keeps putting off the invitation to give Emefiele the benefit of doubt. The CBN lawmaker should also show the dignity of his institution rather than advertise the fragility of his ego.

• The first Nigerian professor of medicine with a record of other firsts

I like to say that the training of doctors is my major contribution to this society,” Professor Emeritus Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi remarked in an interview published in 2017.  ”I have seen some of my students flourish in their careers in different parts of the world. I have been to the United States and the United Kingdom to find those who we taught in Ibadan here doing extremely well as specialists and as professors in universities, which means that we taught them at the University of Ibadan and gave them a very good background.”

Recognised as the first Nigerian professor of medicine, he became a medical doctor after studying at the then Yaba Medical School in Lagos and the University of London. An “exemplary” local doctor inspired him to study medicine, he said.

 He worked as a medical officer in the Western Nigeria Civil Service before joining the University of Ibadan, the oldest degree-awarding institution in Nigeria, as a senior lecturer in 1961. He was the first Nigerian medical lecturer, and became the first Nigerian medical professor four years later in 1965, at the age of 42.  He was among the first Nigerian Academy of Science fellowship inductees in 1977, in recognition of his contributions to science. Also, he was the first head of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. This record of firsts speaks volumes about his scholarship. He retired in 1983, at the age of 60.

When he died on January 19, aged 99, President Muhammadu Buhari noted in a tribute that “Ogunlesi brought pride and honour to Nigeria in scholarship and practice.”

Born in Sagamu, in present-day Ogun State, he owed his accomplishments to medical education. Indeed, he titled his autobiography, which he released when he turned 80, “Medicine: My Passport.” “My father was a blacksmith,” he said. “So, if I were to follow any trade at all, I should have been a blacksmith or a farmer for that matter.”

His life and career demonstrated the life-changing power of education. According to him, his parents “somehow managed to pay my school fees for secondary education at the CMS Grammar School, Lagos.” The colonial government established the then Yaba Higher College, Lagos, for post-secondary education, and he was among the students that qualified for sponsored training in the institution.  This was a testimony to his brilliance, and that was how his success story in the medical profession began.  

His passion for knowledge drew him to university teaching, which he elevated above narrow medical practice because of its research dimension. “If you are interested in adding to knowledge or discovering what is not known, you will be part of a university system,” he argued.   Ogunlesi’s exit coincides with an escalating exodus of healthcare personnel from Nigeria. In the health sector, doctors, nurses and other health professionals are leaving the country as if escaping from a hopeless situation. The alarming flight has been blamed on poor leadership, corruption, poor remuneration and toxic work experience.  

With the benefit of experience, he observed that “underfunding is the major factor… what is lacking is political will.” According to him, “The difference is between a good government and bad government, a government that does not provide sufficient funds for education or sufficient funds for running the hospitals, you can’t expect good results.”

It is noteworthy that the country’s doctor-patient ratio is alarmingly poor, and nowhere near the World Health Organisation’s standard doctor-patient ratio of one doctor per 600 people. The situation is worsening as doctors continue to leave the country for pastures new.

Beyond posthumous tributes from people in power, perhaps, one of the best ways to honour Ogunlesi is for the authorities to urgently deal with the factors that encourage the flight of doctors, which is detrimental to the country.

• Clarifications sought on Section 134 should be provided in earnest

Frontline lawyer Olisa Agbakoba recently highlighted a grey area in constitutional provisions on emergence of a presidential election winner in the country. Against the backdrop of the imminent 2023 poll, he requested the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, to share his understanding of Section 134 of the 1999 Constitution (as Amended) regarding conditions to be met for declaring a presidential candidate as poll winner.

The stated section of the constitution provides as follows: “(1) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being only two candidates for the election – (a)  he has the majority of votes cast at the election; and (b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

“(2) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election – (a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and (b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.”

In a letter to the INEC boss, Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), raised question as to whether the conjunction ‘and’ in “at least two-thirds of all the states in the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja” is to be understood – using layman’s language – as meaning ‘in addition to’ or ‘including.’ He stated that a careful review of Section 134 leaves possible interpretations that raise three significant questions:

“(1) The requirement that a presidential candidate must score not less than one-quarter of votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of the 36 states of the federation: does this mean the FCT Abuja is incorporated in the 24 states?

“(2) The requirement that a presidential candidate must score not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of the 36 states of the federation: does it mean the presidential candidate must also score not less than one-quarter of votes cast at the election at the FCT?

“(3) Can a candidate who scored not less than one-quarter of votes cast at the election in 36 states of the federation but failed to score one-quarter of the votes cast at the election at the FCT be duly elected as President of Nigeria?”

The senior lawyer also pointed out different phrases used in sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of Section 134, saying: “(1)(a) provides that a candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected, where, there being only two candidates for the election, the candidate has the majority of votes cast at the election. But Section 134(2)(a) provides that a candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election, the candidate has the highest number of votes cast at the election.” He added: “The constitution describes the winner in two different languages. One, the winner must score the majority of votes and the other, the winner must score the highest number of votes. This is confusing.”

Agbakoba’s posers are extremely crucial and not mere semantics, especially in the event of razor-edge computations to determine the winner of the imminent poll. True, those provisions have been in the law since 1999 and never were an issue; but it takes only a tallying trend to throw up hair-splitting definitions of terms and phrases. The senior lawyer’s intervention highlights the need to clarify these terms ahead of the election, otherwise we would be heading to the ballot box with a conundrum dangling over the poll. Agbakoba directed his enquiries to the INEC chair who will be the Returning Officer of the presidential poll, and it is important that the electoral chief respond earnestly with the clarifications he has.

But it’s better, perhaps, to get the judiciary’s interpretation once and for all. If it falls within conventional litigation, relevant stakeholders among legal practitioners and the political class should approach the courts to educate us all on what these provisions really mean. That might turn out to be of great help to the poll.

•Prompt medical attention will curb its spread

Barely two years after the COVID-19 pandemic that shook the world, another disease, diphtheria, which almost has similar symptoms with COVID-19 has allegedly claimed about 25 lives in Kano State. The number could be higher as there have been many who died and were buried without proper diagnosis or post-mortem, according to the ministry of health in the state. So, we might be dealing with more deaths and there might be a possibility that it is still spreading.

Sadly though, there had been reports about the killer disease since last year but only after the reported deaths has the ministry taken the case to Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital (MMSH) and Aminu Kano Teaching hospital (AKTH) in Kano. According to the state’s ministry of health, 58 suspected cases are documented, six were on admission and 25 patients had died of the infection as at January 13.

However, despite the fact that diphtheria has similar respiratory symptoms of sore throat, fever, weakness etc., with COVID, and is often spread through coughs, sneezes, infected saliva exchanges and droplets, it is preventable through the use of vaccines and prompt medical attention with antibiotics.

We are however surprised that the Kano State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanywa told journalists that the state emergency preparedness committee was meeting to evaluate the casualty and review the data and measures to address the situation. This, to us, is coming a year after reports first emerged. His claim that the state has low routine immunisation attributed to the spread of the disease, especially in the ‘hard-to-be-reached’ areas in the state, is shocking.

We believe that like in the larger federal healthcare system, alertness is lacking in the states in Nigeria. For the commissioner for health to point to the challenges of the ‘hard-to-be-reached’ areas of the state says a lot about how seriously the state takes the health of its citizens. The fact that pre-election campaigns are going on, those communities have political representatives and constituencies that get votes and federal and local government allocations should have made their health to matter. Politicians usually would not find their areas hard-to-reach to campaign.

For a disease that is airborne and which thrives in unsanitary and crowded environments, it is sad that the health ministry does not understand the dire consequences of leaving any section of the state uncared for in terms of vaccinations and awareness creation. In a short while, those living in the ‘hard-to-be-reached’ areas would mingle with those living in the easy-to-be-reached areas and the state and other parts of the country might have to deal with an epidemic.

The commissioner visiting some of the affected communities and giving them phone numbers of who to call, to us is not a very proactive way to tackle the spread of the disease.  Better efforts ought to be in isolating areas with worse cases and stemming the tide. Experts insist that within 48 hours, treatment with antibiotics can kill the bacteria thereby making it impotent from affecting more people. The commissioner did not mention the provision of help centres and stop-gap remedies while they test more people so as to isolate the affected areas and save more lives.

We recommend that health ministries, not just in Kano but other states, must be more proactive than reactive as it seems that they often wait for casualties of a disease to act. That is not good enough. We believe that while diseases can spread across the world, countries and states often have their own peculiar ways of protecting citizens in a holistic way, especially for the airborne diseases that seem to have no borders as long as humans interact. If the ‘hard-to-be-reached’ areas are abandoned, they will invariably spread to the easy-to-be-reached areas.

There must be the creation of awareness amongst the citizens for them to take preventive measures to curb the spread of the disease so that more lives would not be lost.

In this era of global interactions, countries are being more diligent in insisting on certain medical tests for incoming passengers through their borders. We expect nothing less from the Nigerian governments at all levels. As it is now, the Kano State health ministry cannot even trace where the diphtheria outbreak came from. That is not good enough. Again, taking samples to Abuja or any other state for correct diagnosis says a lot about the healthcare facilities in a state like Kano, with a huge population and huge internally generated revenue. More health infrastructure can help people of the state lead a better and longer life.

•How come personal ambitions have overtaken our ability to submit 2020 audit report?

The intersection of person and system can trammel the dynamic of progress in the civil service. That is the case in the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (AuGF) that did not submit the audit report for 2020. This violates the constitution and shows how the absence of one man can hold the law of the land hostage and cripple all activities connected with it.

According to section 85(5) of the 1999 constitution, “The Auditor-General shall, within 90  days of receipt of the Accountant-General’s financial statement, submit his reports under this section to each House of the National Assembly and each House shall cause the reports to be considered by a committee of the House of the National Assembly responsible for public accounts.”

It is dangerous such an incident can happen with regard to our finances as a nation, especially in a milieu where corruption festers and individuals can take liberties with our funds where there is no bureaucratic eye or moral authority to hold them to account.

According to a news report in The Nation, a festering clash of ambitions among directors who want to be the auditor-general has paralysed the ability of the acting auditor-general to submit the report. This is unacceptable. The substantive occupier of the position, Adolphus Aghughu, retired September 2022. He picked a director, Ogochukwu Onwudili, to act pending the appointment of a person as a substantive auditor-general.

Ordinarily, the acting auditor-general should have submitted the report. It is baffling that it has not happened. If Onwudili cannot submit the report, what is the essence of filling in for the appointee while the president announces the new person?

As an insider tells The Nation, “The battle for who becomes the auditor-general is intense as the government has thrown the seat open to all qualified directors in the federal civil service. So, those within are doing everything possible to be considered.”

It implies that persons can be more important than systems, and if a few persons with vaulting ambitions and centrifugal temperaments want to obstruct the smooth running of government, they can have their way. That this has happened is enough evidence that our civil service has serious deficiencies in its way of operation.

We are already in 2023 and we do not have the report of 2020. It implies a dilatory service and a lack of precision in how we look at our books. The constitution says within 90 days the auditor-general should send the report to the National Assembly. How does a 2020 report still remain in the hands of the investigators when a lot of financial activities had happened in 2021? It is hard to understand how the civil service allows itself such latitude of indulgence. The 2019 report, for instance, was submitted in 2022. We allow for the need for integrity of reporting and this calls for thorough work among the mammoth agencies of government. But this is their only duty, and they should exercise speed with precision in making sure that our money is spent with prudence and accountability. If it takes a year, it is understandable. But after that requires an overhaul of how it is done. The minutiae of reports may call for questions and repeated queries, but it should be done with deadlines and penalties.

But that is not the case with the 2020 audit. It is a personality clash, and the whole country suffers because a few people want to be the next AuGF.

We call on the president to look into this matter with urgency. It was an audit query that recently exposed the accountant-general of the federation. Who knows what is lurking in the 2020 report?