Nigeria: Buhari Meets Awo

30 November 2015

The spectacle of Muhammadu Buhari in Ikenne last week at the final burial ceremonies for Chief Obafemi Awolowo's much-treasured wife, HID, almost defies definition.

Not even the fact that Awo's grandson-in-law, Yemi Osinbajo, is the Vice President, could douse a sneaky suspicion that Buhari had come for some kind of atonement or quell a palpable rumination of an interesting kind: Were Awo to suddenly show up from somewhere in that house, his trademark glasses perfectly perched on his nose and hands in pockets, what would President Buhari have said in answer to the simple question: how do you do, Muhammadu?

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