We all have biases but
what we all don't have, innately, is integrity. The reason is because integrity
emerges from character building and over time, not necessarily over a long
time, but over a consistency of passing character challenging tests.
Biases are not always
formed from concerted thoughtfulness, they are mostly primordially formed; that
is why we make concerted efforts to dump negative biases through education and
other forms of enlightenment.
Most enlightened persons
have enough integrity to tell speciousness from reason. There are
instances when it is to our honour to set aside our biases for reason, even if
doing so may be tasking to our general points of view.
Considering the above,
why would any person of integrity pay attention to Cairo Ojougbou's words that
were designed to throw Deltans and indeed Nigerians off the revelation by Dr. Ibe
Kachukwu that the NNPC GMD and of course Buhari awarded contract of $25b, an amount
that is larger than the 2017 federal budget, including appointments that are skewed
against South, particularly the South-south. Informed people would never cite the allegations
of Ojougbou, because they know that he wrote them erroneously and to change the
conversation, as diversionary ploy.
In all sincerity, Cairo
Ojougbou has long ago squandered the opportunity to remain afloat with integrity
and character, because of his “man must wack” attitude.
The most important point
to the above is to let those with negative biases know that Cairo Ojougbou's
invocation is nothing but a semi-literate nuisance who is merely passing off
silliness for facts. His entire tirade has zero validity and respectability. A
properly educated person, without ignorance-induced biases, knows that no government
runs without a Budget.
However, APC simpletons were
kept busy looking up to the State government to publish the Budget, feeling
that Ojougbou had made an earth-shattering revelation, but it would have been too
childish for him to deserve a more serious response than he got.
Not even kindergarten kids
would believe something that thoughtlessly ridiculous were they not negatively
biased against Governor Okowa.
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