{"id":56238,"date":"2024-10-29T11:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/alex-ikwechegh-politicians-lack-respect-for-nigerians-mr-macaroni\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T11:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:04:39","slug":"alex-ikwechegh-politicians-lack-respect-for-nigerians-mr-macaroni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/alex-ikwechegh-politicians-lack-respect-for-nigerians-mr-macaroni\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ikwechegh: Politicians lack respect for Nigerians \u2013 Mr Macaroni"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Famous social activist and skit maker, Debo Adebayo, better known as Mr Macaroni, has said Nigerian politicians lack regard for Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this is because they have never been accountable to the people.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes after a member of the House of Representatives from Abia State, Alexander Mascot Ikwechegh threatened to make an Uber driver to disappear from Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Rep member also threatened to beat up the cabman and lock him up in his generator house.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a post on his X handle, Mr Macaroni said that politicians have never been accountable to the Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the FCT Minister as an instance, whom he claimed asked if some Nigerians were stupid while addressing them.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Macaroni wrote: \u201cNigerian politicians lack regard for Nigerians and this is because they have never been accountable to the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other day the FCT Minister was addressing some Nigerians and he said; \u201care you stupid, is it because I came down to talk to you\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are a civil servant!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean by \u201cis it because I came down to talk to you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You are talking to the people that pay your salary!!! Whatever privileges your office allows you is as a function of your service to the people! You work for the people and not the other way round. Arrogance has no place in public office!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is not a private entity. Your duty is to serve!!! You are not anybody\u2019s chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, next time any Nigerian politician is addressing the people, please remind them that they are speaking to the people they are serving, not their followers.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nigerian Politicians lack regard for Nigerians and this is because they have never been accountable to the people.<br \/>\nThe other day the FCT Minister was addressing some Nigerians and he said; \u201care you stupid, is it because I came down to talk to you\u201d<br \/>\nYou are a civil servant!!!\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr Macaroni (@mrmacaronii) October 29, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Alex Ikwechegh: Politicians lack respect for Nigerians \u2013 Mr Macaroni<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous social activist and skit maker, Debo Adebayo, better known as Mr Macaroni, has said Nigerian politicians lack regard for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25627,4,22504,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alex-ikwechegh","category-entertainment","category-mr-macaroni","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}