Q: Why is it so easy to criticise and have a plan till you get into government? 🤔
A: Because outside govt, you see the problem in straight lines. Inside government, you meet the maze.
From outside, failure often looks like a lack of will, competence, courage, or integrity. Sometimes it is. But inside government, plans meet weak institutions, inherited liabilities, vested interests, procurement rules, courts, legislators, budget limits, security realities, civil service inertia, and the politics of timing.
Culture happens, stories begin and self-preservation agendas find life.
The easiest sentence in public life is: “They should just fix it.” The harder truth is that the state is not one person with one button. It is a network of laws, interests, fears, incentives, sabotage, capacity gaps, and consequences.
Still, complexity is not an excuse for failure. Government exists to organise complexity into results. The real test of leadership is whether a plan survives contact with reality, adapts without losing its moral centre, and delivers relief citizens can feel.
So, I have learnt to appreciate progress, momentum and incremental gains..... not the eldorado version.
Yet, criticism keeps power honest, but getting results for desired governance requires more than criticism. It requires getting involved, sequencing, coalition-building, courage, competence, communication, and the humility to accept that the problem was deeper than the slogan.
The code is to win by knowing when to lose, win or compromise.
On a scale we can all relate wirh, we should for example know that the wedding, of which we priotise expenses with, is just an event, while the marriage remains the institution of priority. Even within this family arrangement, optimising value reflects similar challenges.😔 You can read this in a way you get the message.
Be ye circumspect.....
@Iam_akinbusola How can a man and his movement remain at the stage 1 of the 5 stages of grief for over 3 years? How!?
No wonder they’ve started repeating the same strategies that failed them in 2022.
They’ll come third again, we’ll be here.
@Iam_akinbusola Awo and Zik were not compared to Jesus.
The god-status they’ve attributed to Obi is the issue here.
It’s a form of idolatry that we’re not seeing properly.
Rev sir, you don’t even need to clarify anything.
These people care less what you say.
They don’t really care whatever you say sir. It is what it is. 😊
The Confession of Faith is speaking in agreement with what God has said concerning us.
He has said, that we may boldly say!
I am what he says I am, I have what he says I have, I can do what he says I can do!
I believe God and his Word!
@AgbalajaR@pfemiolaleye That second sentence… wow. 😊
Meanwhile, I’m so certain you neither read Rev’s tweet or the news page he attached. You were more concerned with responding.