Once admitted to the mental wards, they continued to speak and behave normally they reported to the medical staff that their hallucinated voices had disappeared and that they felt fine. Nonetheless, all of them were diagnosed as schizophrenic (except one, who was diagnosed with "manic-depressive psychosis"), hospitalized for up to two months, and prescribed antipsychotic medications (which they did not swallow). Their single complaint was that they "heard voices." They told hospital staff that they could not really make out what the voices said but that they heard the words "empty," "hollow," and "thud." Apart from this fabrication, they behaved normally and recounted their own (normal) past experiences and medical histories. It was entitled "On Being Sane in Insane Places," and it described how, as an experiment, eight "pseudopatients" with no history of mental illness presented themselves at a variety of hospitals across the United States. I wonder why the leadership of the party allowed him to be wasting the people’s resources and deceiving himself.In 1973 the journal Science published an article that caused an immediate furor. Has Nigeria become a cheap nation or a failed state such that Bello will become its President? If it is, it means that everyone should carry his load and relocate to any nearby West African country because there will be no hope. The lack of will on the part of the governor to execute projects, he said, was the genesis of the crisis that saw them fall apart.Īchuba said: “You are given a state to manage, you cannot manage the state but you are talking of managing the entire country.
In an interview posted on the website of during the week, Governor Bello’s former deputy, Simon Achuba, was quoted him as saying that he could cite 30 projects that were flagged off by the governor but never executed. It leaves one to wonder what business a man who could not make an impact after six years in the saddle as the governor of a state would do as the president of the most populous country in Africa. He would host any kind of gathering just to keep himself in the spotlight ahead of the party’s national convention scheduled for God knows when. In spite of the foregoing state of affairs, the only thing that seems to matter to Governor Bello is the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Understandably, the founder of BON has already boasted that the edition scheduled for Lokoja would be the biggest in the history of the 11-year-old annual event. For good measure, the governor seized the occasion to announce his readiness to host this year’s edition of Best of Nollywood (BON) Awards scheduled for Saturday, December 11. In March, for instance, scores of Nigerian actors and actresses converged on the Confluence City at the behest of the governor who hosted them with tax payers’ money amounting to millions of naira. In recent months, Lord Lugard House, the seat of government in Lokoja, the state capital, has hosted all manner of guests in furtherance of the governor’s avowed mission to become President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023. Apparently, his fortuitous emergence as governor in 2015 and his controversial re-election victory four years later are pushing him to believe that he can become the Pope even as a Muslim.Īnd no one should begrudge that, except that it is taking a toll on the poor state’s fortunes.
The reality, however, is that the presidential ambition of Governor Yahaya Bello is as real as daylight, and he has demonstrated this in more ways than one. Many people did not take the story seriously because they could not understand the basis on which the governor of the North Central state would undertake a mission requiring not only financial muscle but goodwill and competence, none of which he is endowed with in profuse abundance. It sounded like a piece of sublime joke when the story first filtered out that Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, was nursing an ambition to become the president of Nigeria.
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