Kwara Debt Profile: Ajakaye and the Belief of His Own Lies

Isn’t it paradoxical that the Chief Press Secretary to the Kwara State Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye is guilty of his own words? Right from the first paragraph of his article titled, “Of Yaman’s debt gaffe and PDP’s shock-jocks, I couldn’t but ask myself why the CPS chose the opening line of his article: “Believing one’s own lie — a kind of cognitive bias — is about the worst singular thing to happen to anyone.” It’s the greatest self-deception I’ve witnessed in recent times. As Leonardo da Vinci opined, the greatest deception…