Asaba: The Senior Special Assistant on Contributory Health Insurance Scheme, Solomon Ebinum has said that the critics of the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on the bailout fund are uninformed and unreasonable. Their criticisms stem from a much kind of antagonism.
He said this after a chat with a leader of the trade union in the state who told him that when the bailout fund was released that His Excellency held a meeting with them on the judicious use of the fund. The union leader also said that the fund was spent on contributory pension, wages and salaries, old pension and local governments.
Ebinum also said that success attracts criticism and the governor is no stranger to criticism but the irresponsibilities of the so called critics baffles him. These people just don’t get the big picture and because of their hate, they feign ignorance of the accomplishments of the governor. I cannot fathom the purpose behind the misleading online stories and what they aim to achieve but I know it is politically motivated but was dead on arrival.
According to Theodore Roosevelt, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” He said
