Nigeria: Obj As Man of the Year

30 December 2013
opinion

I was going to nominate myself for man of the year because, well, I can and as our leaders show us every minute of the day, when you can do something, you do it - it doesn't matter if its right or wrong. Then I made a mistake of being outside the country because that's where you get a conscience and get reminded that you've gone AWOL for weeks!

I discovered Nigeria's newest saint and realized he was my man of the year all along. It took a misguided, blinded letter from his daughter to make me see the light that had been in my face all along. How dare Iyabo write that her venerable father, General Olusegun Obasanjo is not the owner of Nigeria and God's gift to Nigeria?

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