Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown is what they normally say and we can bet that’s the situation with the handsome white-bearded Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu. One of the major headaches the governor is seriously grappling with is the monumental debt he inherited from the Mimiko government. So colossal is the debt that it can cause the faint-hearted to give up. But not wanting to have a defeatist attitude, he has plunged headlong into the situation and is making every effort at unraveling the complicated knots. We hear that servicing the debt alone is mad and that the Federal Government deducts it from source. So, before the state’s monthly allocation is received, some major machetting is done, so what arrives can only just sort out salaries and a little more. For the man who made many promises during his campaign, the reality on ground is a bit scary and not too nice. So, to try to meet up one way or the other, he’s making some very ingenious maneuverings at least to make the little happening now to even happen. It’s not even like what normally accrues to the state is anything great or extraordinary, but that stipend coupled with the overload of weight and expectations is causing his Excellency’s white beard to be turning more platinum by the day. One only hopes that respite one way or the other would come the way of the governor, somewhere, somehow.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s headache
