If robust representation at the National Assembly is the capacity to fiercely, intelligently and uncompromisingly enunciate, interrogate and defend the people’s mandate, then Adams Oshiomhole deserves his flowers.
Unarguably, one of Nigeria’s most celebrated Labour Union presidents, a two-time governor and a first-timer at the Senate, he displayed such guts and courage that brought tears of joy and hope to millions of Nigerians across party lines and beyond geopolitical affiliations.
Provoked during a sitting of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, the no-nonsense senator representing Edo North Senatorial District called the NNPCL a “house of thieves” in response to former NNPC Chief Financial Officer, Umar Ajiya—standing in for the former GCEO, Mele Kyari—who suggested that Nigerians would do almost anything to work for the NNPCL.
Is such a scramble to work for Nigeria’s most opaque public sector agency borne out of patriotism, to push the frontiers of national development and
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