At the launch of the National Tier IV Data Centre located in Kano on 30 January, 2023 by President Muhammadu Buhari, it would have been most fitting and proper to play “Save the Best for Last”, a song by American singer and actress Vanessa Williams, released in January 1992 as the third single from her second studio album. Co-written by Philip E. Galdston/Wendy Waldman-parker/Jon Lind, the title of the song derives from the idiomatic expression of reserving something appealing till the end or the final moment.
Isn’t that what is happening with the plethora of infrastructural projects being commissioned just a few months to the end of the Buhari administration? Won’t these projects take the wind out of the sail of some of the criticisms directed at the government? Those who are willing to credit the Buhari administration with significant achievements can’t help but recall the following lines from Williams’ song:
