The hope of many Nigerians was and still is that there will be a shift from the old to new generation of rulers in this country as experienced in Barak Obama’s United States. With the exit of the military, younger, well-educated and respected politicians started showing up: Donald Duke, Pat Utomi, Gbenga Daniel and others. There was the belief that if these men should govern well in their areas, clinching and making the Presidency work would be easy.
Thus, in 2003 when Gbenga Daniel became the Governor of Ogun State, not a few people nursed the expectation that a man who had succeeded in the world of business and appeared level-headed would bring the seriousness of the private sector to bear on public governance which, in Nigeria, has been rendered a horror.
Writing in The Guardian of 6 April 2004, Ayo Olukotun submitted:”Daniel was something of a star engineering student of the University of Lagos where he won many prizes for academic excellence under the late Professor Ayodele Awojobi. He had also transformed, upon leaving the university, an obscure company (Krester Laurel) dealing in generators and elevators, into one of the most successful indigenous companies in its class in Nigeria.”
Half-way into his second term, however, Governor Daniel, has deteriorated, as many Nigerians agree, from a man who could offer hope to the new generation of Nigerians to an arrogant local champion, fighting many real and phantom enemies simultaneously. This is to the extent that the man has become a veritable study in megalomania and paranoia. Daniel is in conflict with former president, Olusegun Obasanjo; Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye, Chief Alani Bankole, Alhaji Sharafa Ishola, Speaker Dimeji Bankole, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, Senator Lekan Mustapha, Wale Alausa, some members of the Ogun House of Assembly and even serving and former aides of his.
Daniel’s war with Alausa even has a fetish ring to it. In this edition’s cover story, Associate Editor, BAMIDELE JOHNSON, tells an interesting story of the Ogun State governor’s voodoo politics. Who are the other governors who have descended to this abyss of superstition at a time when other countries are exploring outer space and carying out experiments on stem cells and genetically modified food? *****************************************
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