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The Yoruba have a saying that concerns the elderly. The saying goes thus, ‘ogbon gbon lagbalagba fi nsa fun malu’. It literally translates to the fact that it’s with style that the elderly runs away from the ox.
However, the deep meaning is that the elderly will always look before they leap.
I thought OBJ had become a conscience of the nation in Nigeria. A conscience of the nation will always speak the truth to power, no matter the threat to his own life.
OBJ did this to some governments which he either caused to be in power or supported anyway.
But, when he did it to the most wicked man to have ever ruled Nigeria, Sani Abacha, that one arrested him and arraigned him on charges of sponsoring a phantom coup. He was miraculously saved because of Abacha’s death.
He might have gone to the gallows!
After being military head of state, he became civilian president for eight years. In the eight years he spent as president, he didn’t see himself as a Yoruba man.
Great, ain’t it?
But then no Yoruba person actually begrudged him for his position. But then, he should give what is Yorubas to the Yoruba out of our commonwealth.
Rather, he embarked on fruitless search for a third term after an abysmal performance as president. The kalokalo NASS took his money loaded in Ghana must goes.
But they did not allow him to go for another term.
Which government after him did he not have a voice in the choice of the President. How many of them were okay? I would say none.
He would fall out with most of them for selfish reasons. Then criticisms would start.
He picked on Mr Buhari too. But that one said he was going to probe the power project which he superintended.
Then our man started running up and down.
I would have thought probing a former head of state would have broken a jinx in Nigeria. That is no one, no matter how highly placed, would be unquestionable.
Mr Buhari too would have to answer for the 2.8 billion that’s been hanging on his neck since Obasanjo’s military rulership.
But the man has become suddenly mute, abi ink don dry for him pen ni.
He has now mended his way with the Yoruba elders. If I were in the elders’ position, I couldn’t but be very careful.
072018
