Originally Posted by akuluouno 
Villagers,
I think the removal of the Ajami scripts (Arabic written in Hausa)
( I hope I got it right) from our Naira notes and his undiplomatic charcterisation of the North as the purveyor of poverty
in Nigeria marked the death knell to CCS second term. Flowing from these two true, but undiplomatic acts, good Nigerians went into a mischievious overdrive and the rest as they say is history, sorry SLS
You have to be living in Tora Bora if you needed Soludo to tell just how poor the north is. You don't educate your people, you have no industry (whatever small industrialization was left in the north died with the 'religious' murders), you have ceased farming and opted for okada riding- do you need Soludo to tell you that you are poor if you are not productive? Fools. Let them keep playing the ostrich until their tails catches fire!
As for the 'ajami scripts', it is another foreign writing- just as foreign as English letters were to my grand parents. The decision to put them there was to assist those who could read but not in English. People who knew the alphabets but not the English alphabet. Maybe it made sense then but surely not after 40 years of independence. We all signed up to English as our national language and people should learn to speak it. I however think that if the basis for the anger is because it is 'foreign', English alphabets is even more so.
I met a very interesting banker last week and Soludo was discussed. He said, "I do not know how the 'other banks' survived under Soludo. The CEOs of the banks he favored were virtually part of the Federal Executive Council. Not a single Chinese business in five years went outside these three banks!" Of course Soludo's last desperate attempt to secure 'forbearance' of N45billion (out of the N50billion paid for Spring Bank) was disgraceful. Thankfully, his deputies stood their ground and the governing council also refused to sanction it. Like his godfather before him (OBJ), his last acts of desperation will be remembered for a long time. I hope his good work is not forgotten too soon. So much potential for greatness. So much greed. This country eats great men and spits out thrash.