Nigeria: Dame Patience Jonathan and a Troubling Repetition of Recent History

20 September 2012
opinion

JUST why don't our leaders learn the lessons of history? Why are they condemned to lunacy, by doing the same thing over and over and yet expecting to arrive at a different outcome? We have entered the fourth week of the disappearance from the public space, of President Goodluck Jonathan's wife, Dame Patience.

Because no serious official information was forthcoming about the sudden disappearance of a woman who made sure of her presence in our lives, the rumour mill went into over-drive!

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