USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: June 12 Quest

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From: Oladipupo Adamolekun <dipo7k@yahoo.com>

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:32:59 +0000 (UTC)

To: ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com<ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com>

ReplyTo: Oladipupo Adamolekun <dipo7k@yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: June 12 Quest

Ayo: Greetings.  I enjoyed reading your piece on "true' federalism, including the "short take" on Post-UTME.  Regarding the latter, my position is that JAMB's intervention derogates from university autonomy and it should be scrapped.  WAEC/NECO results are adequate for initial selection and each university can organise tests/interviews without a "uniform" label.  I imagine you've read my reflections on 50 years of federalism in Nigeria, published in Publius, The Journal of Federalism, in 2005.  It is hereby attached for storage in your archives. LA

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Subject: Fw: June 12 Quest

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From: dapogundipe@yahoo.co.uk

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:02:53 +0100

To: <ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com>

Subject: June 12 Quest

‎Sir,

Your article on the backpage of The Punch today refers.

I have had an insistent ‎concern that the gains of the 1993 elections and subsequent annulment; and the struggle thereafter have been mismanaged. And this you captured most succinctly in your article.

Further, and this baffles me more, is that the characters who presently exist on the stage of governance were the ones who hitherto harangued on the concept of true federalism. Their present whispers (if not silence) are deafening. 

I started to become uncomfortable with their body language when in 2014 they insisted on not attending the Conference organised by the previous government. I thought it would have been an opportunity to lay out their concerns. Their supporters insisted they would hold a proper Conference on assumption of office.

One year down the road, I see no such signs. It starts to seem they're equally birds of the same hue of political mismanagement.  

Femi Kuti would say... I sorry for Nigeria...

Dapo Ogundipe 

Lagos, Nigeria

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