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.