Advert guru and immediate past chairman of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, Dr May Nzeribe has described as un-necessary the seven day ultimatum issued to the United States Government by the National Assembly over the inclusion of Nigeria in the list of terrorist sponsors nations.

He said the nations handlers should instead urge the US government to be more rational and objective in their decision, since what is involved is a matter of security. He expressed concern about the fact that the nation’s crop of leadership themselves create a situation that made the country a subject of scorn among the commity of nations. “If we can do the right thing and push the country to where it should be both as leaders and followers, we won’t have a lot of people taking a shot at us. According to him, it is the responsibility of any reasonable government to provide for the safety of its people once a threat is identified, survival should be of paramount importance.” The only thing is that we could ask them to be more rational and objective. This is a matter of life and death, a responsible government will do what it has to do, even if it is subjective to take care of their citizen”. “I don’t think threat or ultimatum will achieve anything, the worst is that you put extra check on them too, but you ask the question how many of them come in compared to Nigerians who go there”, he stressed.

He further berated the federal government for its inability to meet up with the projected 6000 megawatts of electricity despite all the resources channelled  to it and challenged those put in charge to ask themselves the honest question if they did what they had to do right despite having identified that the problem is that of distribution not generation.

On the expectation from the  government in this new year, he said the expectation had always been that of the need to ensure good governance and channel resources for the benefits of the down trodden instead of serving the interest of the few. He said he hopes to see a country with leadership that looks more at the nation especially the common man and not self.