Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents,
I am glad to be back home after the summit of Commonwealth Heads of State in beautiful Abuja. You know Abuja is so damn beautiful that it makes the whole of Accra look like one big slum. It was after a similar visit to Abuja sometime back that I got the idea of creating a special ministry for the beautification of the national capital. As I was driven through the city of Abuja, I couldn’t help reviewing the report card of the first Minister for the Beautification of the National Capital, Okanta Otsebetsi. His immodest achievements so far have made me realize that, in the first place, I made a mistake by merging the Beautification and Tourism Ministries and putting the two portfolios in the hands of Okanta.