Pauline Tallen – Playing to the gallery

By Joseph Edgar… AS soon as i read the rejection of Pauline Tallens’s rambassadorial appointment and reason, i laughed. These people are still playing games with our lives especially at these times of wicked hardships.

She was quoted to have said that she was rejecting the appointment because of her husband’s ill health. This, at the time, sounded so pedestrian and comical. Everybody knows the lobby and time these appointments take before they are announced. So all these time, she did not know her hubby was ill and only just realised it at the point of the announcement. How dumb would she think we are?

Thankfully, a party leader has come out to clarify that two appointments were made from the same zone and madam being a very mature party leader decided to step down for the other person.

Why could she have not just said this instead of trying to jump on the ‘other room’ vehicle by attempting to show that ‘family comes first’ in a feeble attempt at scoring cheap political brownie points.

And, this begins to question her integrity as a leader. Why would she send this kind of signal if she had integrity? Would it not be more noble if she came out to say she stepped down or was even asked to step down which really happened to be the case than throw this kind of childish fib at us.
By the way why do we even need all these non-career diplomats at these challenging times, and when the world is now so wired? Sending Mamora, a medical doctor and a career politician to a country, for example like sudan, is only an excercise in political gerimandeering as Kingsley Mbadiwe will say. Of what strategic or economic purposes will that be to us. We can ill afford giving jobs to the boys just for that sake.

I’m still looking for the full list to enable me give a more concise review. Although the first names i’m seeing and the ill-fated appointment of Madam Tallen all point to my position of just giving the boys a job at the expense of Nigeria and Nigerians.

 

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