Governor Segun Oni of Ekiti State has sent 10 first class monarchs in the State to London to observe the 11th Ekiti Day celebration, which took place Monday.
The reason of sending the traditional rulers to London, the State Commissioner for Information, Apostle Odunayo Ategbero, explained yesterday was to brief Ekiti people in diaspora about what has been happening in the State and Nigeria. The commissioner was reacting to claims in some quarters that royal fathers in the state boycotted the 47th independence anniversary and celebration of the 11th year of creation of the state. He said that every local government in the State was “celebrating the anniversary also, so people decided to remain in their locality rather than coming to Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado-Ekiti were Governor Oni came to deliver his speech as expected.”
NOTES: Only in Nigeria do public officials and cronies celebrate the aniversaries of a state in a foreign country! What were the monarchs "observing" in London? Do they have a branch of Ekiti state there?
They needed 10 (TEN!) monarchs to brief Ekiti people in diaspora about happenings in the state and Nigeria? In this day and age of the internet?
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The hysteria in Nigeria is the stuff that makes a great soap opera.
To avoid hypertension, simply sit back and enjoy the spectacle until the drama ends.
Personally, I am using these characters in my stories.
Posterity will not be bored of reading our history. What a thriller.