The FGN deservedly ignored him.
Governor Ganduje (Kano state) unashamedly requested for N15 billion to fight the Coronavirus in his state.
The FGN, again, didn't bother to respond.
Now, we can understand the FGN reason.
By giving N10 billion to Lagos state, the FGN had unwittingly created the Cobra Effect.
Briefly, the Cobra Effect demonstrates the economics of unintended consequences.
In colonial India, cobras were biting many Indians.
The government decided to offer financial reward for any person who brings a particular number of cobra heads.
The scheme so succeeded that cobras were eliminated in India and cobra bites and mortalities therefrom was eliminated.
But, those Indians who were benefitting from bringing dead cobra heads were denied a sure means of earning livelihoods and they deviced a plan.
They began to breed cobras in their homes for the sole purpose of killing them, cutting their heads, collecting the heads and taking them to the colonial authorities to collect compensation .
Meanwhile, the government was monitoring cobra bites and mortalities and found that they had been eliminated but, and here is the problem, cobra heads were still being brought to them for compensation.
So, the government cancelled the program.
Aggrieved by the cancellation of their 'means' of livelihoods, the Indians decided to release all the cobras they were breeding into the cities.
And, India was effectively back to square one.
Lagos never demanded this financial support from the FGN.
But, Wike and Ganduje demanded the support as of right.
We can see Cobra Effect in the way Ganduje virtually abdicated his responsibility to secure the welfare and lives of his citizens waiting for the FGN largesse!
We can also observe this Cobra Effect in the way Wike became so obdurate to the FGN that he began arresting and locking up any hapless person who has any connection to the FGN until the Commissioner of Police was removed and substituted with another.
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