“A dog that is about to get lost, does not listen to the hunter’s whistle”. This is a Yoruba adage I have translated into English. In one of Chinua Achebe‘s novels, he used a proverb: “Those whom the gods want to purnish, he first makes mad”.
No one has ever mirrored my thoughts about Obasanjo’s third term bid like David Blair.
His articled titled: “Change that could upset Nigeria’s balancing act” summarized my thought about this whole matter.
The first paragraph is even more to the point:
“When an African president rewrites the constitution in order to stay in power, you know he is going off the rails. Sadly, it seems that President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria is heading along this path.”
Sadly, some Nigerian honorables have approved the third term bid. In all fairness to the President, he has not publicly declared his intention to go for a third term but the Obasanjo I know would have since come out to tongue-lash the people push him to it, if he didn’t support it.
All those doing this should know that the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not an exclusive preserve of one individual, or a particular tribe or political party.
I rest my case.
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