Dora Akunyili to get share of 25 percent
16 Dec 2010
The next, next President of Nigeria
Abuja - Dora Akunyili has resigned as Minister of Information and announced that she would be running for senate.
This comes after a closed door meeting between the now former Minister of Information and the CBN governor who is yet to resign from his own job. The meeting was ostensibly to discuss the governor's mouth running over lawmaker's pay.
It would be recalled that the CBN governor recently experienced a brief moment of suicidal thoughts which led him to expose how lawmakers eat up 25% of the Nation's budget. That he is still in office is testament to the competence of his spiritual advisers.
Although what transpired between the two is not known, a source has revealed to Wazobia Report that soon after the meeting, the honourable minister scheduled an emergency meeting with select members of the senate. She is said to have enquired about the actual pay that senators take home.
Our source further claims that immediately after meeting with the senators, the minister made several phone calls to the offices of the auditor general, the accountant general, the pay master general, and the inland revenue.
This series of frantic calls which where overheard, saw her resorting to the 'Do you know who I am?' routine, as she went about verifying the talkative CBN governor's figures.
The minister is said to have stayed late at work on this particular day, causing some of her staff's partner's to declare their spouses missing as it's unthinkable that a Nigerian civil servant would still be at work after 3pm.
The day ended with the minister settling at her desk and counting to ten before making one last call to the head of the most promising political party in her State.
Madam Dora has since tendered her resignation which is to take effect immediately, and she has in her speech to the cabinet, promised her former colleagues that she's got their backs, if elected to the senate.
- Joe Aibozaw