Hi Eli,

Many thanks for your response.

"I think approaching state finances and operations like a corporate entity cannot hurt so long as he will keep his promises to give a human face to his policy implementation."

The latter part of that sentence is the tricky bit. It is the reason I'm skeptical about ferrying core business principles into governance. But as you have said, if there is a human face to Soludo's implementation, then all of us rooting for him will smile.

You're right that I have written a lot more on Nigerian entertainment but I have always thought that you can trace a country's (or culture's) journey and politics through its popular culture, and, on several occasions, I have tried to show how this is the case within some of those entertainment-dissecting pieces I have written over the years. For instance, it is perhaps worth thinking about the connection between the dwindling popularity of Igbo music acts and the political state of the south-east. Is it merely coincidental that only a few artists born and raised from the area have a national reckoning in the same time that only a few politicians from the area are taken seriously across the country? That's a question I could raise in a review of an album. Unfortunately, some readers wouldn't engage that idea in that format. I guess that is why, sometimes, it is best to just to just face Politics head-on.

Greetings from my patch of Earth.