Abuja — Frankly speaking, it was a very unconvincing President Umaru Yar'adua that addressed the media last Tuesday. In the wake of the world-wide outrage which followed the cold-blooded extra-judicial execution of the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Muhammed Yusuf, Yar'adua attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to claim a moral and political high ground on the matter.
His regime, he vowed, had an "uncompromising stance on the rule of law" (yawn, yawn and yawn!). The ant-devoured faggot of "rule of law", is the prop or "anchor" to good governance in Nigeria. So leaning on his prop, President Yar'adua launched a "post-mortem" as a first step which would enable his government determine the next line of action, after his security forces had carried out the mass execution of hundreds (some actually say thousands) of Nigerians in the previous week.
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