12/07/2026
Is Soludo a Mess Put Together?
In my years growing up, I have battled to understand the difference between brilliance and intelligence.
To put it simply, brilliance is the spectacular capacity of the mind to absorb, retain, and replicate information. It is a high-voltage cognitive processing power geared toward academic mastery, structured data, and established theories.
Intelligence, on the other hand, is the capacity for adaptive problem-solving, emotional awareness, and contextual application. While brilliance knows the textbook cover to cover, intelligence knows how to navigate the messy realities where textbooks fail.
Brilliance is a master of the abstract, while intelligence is a master of the practical.
For the most part, most brilliant students are not intelligent. I know this is debatable. It is rare to find one with combinations of these two authentications. Brilliant students excel more in academics. They make theoretical works appear so easy with the ways they look at it. But most intelligent students outsmart them when it comes to practicals.
Soludo, from my deductions, is this brilliant one. He comes with a lot of theoretical problems and his theoretical solutions are always spellbound.
The irony is that in practice, this is where you can feel his emptiness or confusion. And to make up for these gaps, he becomes too verbose, always talking to hide his default lines.
This also accounts for why he surrounded himself with minions. This is because a man who always feels and thinks he is the smartest has a little tolerance for contrary opinions. So to be in his good records, you need to follow him like mumu.
Unlike the time of Ngige and PO, you can barely remember the names of any commissioner under this regime, unless, of course, those who choose to show more appearance with defending Soludo than showing workings.
To be clear, I have always given credit to Soludo for all his beautiful ideas. You only needed to hear him talk to agree with me on this. I can never forget his Okpoko Dubai-Taiwan remixes. In truth, his greatest undoing is in ex*****on.
Every one of his ex*****ons comes with a 12th-century mindset. The blueprint comes with 5G drawn in a cobweb of analogue delivery. More of "China-made" for Nigeria. Poor and narrow roads. No aerial beauty either in his roads, markets, parks, or signature works. I think his "mgbafor mindset" is telling too badly on his ex*****on. The Agulu-Nnewi- Ozubulu is to say the least, a work in absurdity. The 3-3 roads, Tarzan- 33, the Ekwulobia parks,, Main Market/Iweka road speak same language in poor delivery.
Having witnessed his trajectory, i suspect that his attempt at rebuilding main market will come at a great risk to NdiAnambra. Beautiful on papers, poor in delivery as usual
Can he be redeemed? I doubt strongly. This Dubai-Taiwan is strongly going to be remembered for the bad reasons. He wouldn't reckon with this until he leaves office. Then, the noise will disappear and like most governors who have disappeared into oblivion, his story may not be different. Maybe that was the reason why he chose to " progress with the centre. This Solution is appearing like a mess put together and no amount of data boys/girls will be of help to him. He still has enough time to redeem of whatever that is left of his profile. I pray he succeeds.