Among the best-known names was military general and repeated top government official Aliyu Mohamed Gusau. Nonetheless, his name was written as ‘Aliu’. Similarly, the name of Mrs. Laurentia Laraba Mallam was sent by the executive to the legislature as ‘Lawrencia Labaran.’
A security official from Kaduna State who is serving in Abuja that the correct spelling of his aunty’s name was wrongly spelled in the copy said to have emanated from the Presidency. “That is not the correct spelling of my aunty’s name, it was a serious misspelling and not good,” he said. “She has no Labaran in the arraignment of her names but Laraba. It is important personality’s choice and appropriate names are written for official purposes and ought to be correct.” It was also gathered that many newspapers effected the correction, while others did not and others carried an admixture of correct and incorrect names. Attempts to obtain clarification from Jonathan’s Principal Private Secretary, Hassan Tukur, were unsuccessful.
A political analyst who was irked by the situation lamented bitterly “If these people cannot get the names of well-known Nigerians right that they are nominating for top government offices at the highest level, they must be getting several other things wrong... If they are getting wrong something they care about, what can they get right about issues and people they don’t care about? Better still, what do they care about? How has mediocrity travelled so far?”
This calls for serious concerns as the list must have passed throughg several senior officers before being passed to the Senate.
The spelling of the names doesn't matter when the bucks start rolling in dear... Lol
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