Monday, February 16, 2015

THE STATESMAN? THE STATE'S MAN?

Monday, February 16, 2015

THE STATESMAN? THE STATE'S MAN?

Whence does Obasanjo's courage to criticize someone for not adhering to the "Rule of Law" come? I remember well that the "Rule of Law" was a foreign language between 1999 and 2007. When did Obasanjo learn to speak a new language? 

Or is he really speaking a new language? Might this just be a new dialect of an old language, a language we all remember, a language that some of us referred to in those days as the Third Term Project?

Obasanjo is a dogged fighter. That is why the view that his motivations for becoming a "statesman" are entirely selfless is a difficult one to accept. It is more plausible in fact that he is applying the finishing touches to becoming not a statesman as he seems to say, but the State's Man, which is what he may really be saying.