Fri 7 Nov 2008
Obasanjo on Obama’s election and change
Posted by bussee under Education, Leadership, National Development, Nigeria, Politics
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I stumbled on this article by Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo on Barack Obama’s presidential victory while going through the Nigerian news online. I was quite impressed with the structure and delivery of his thoughts and even his thought pattern. Nevertheless, I would say though that I felt quite resentful knowing that such a knowledgeable man has had the opportunity to give hope and change to Nigeria twice in different generations and has successfully disappointed the majority of his countrymen while in service and in his succession plans and choices. I couldn’t help saying to myself, “if knowing wasn’t the problem, then why was doing impossible”.
Maybe I’m naive, maybe I don’t know the fine details. Maybe I’ll never know them. And maybe I really don’t care to know them. If Obama can make and change history, why didn’t he? or bringing it back home, why aren’t I? or why aren’t you? I’ll leave you with these questions as you read through the article and enjoy words a one-time leader of the most populous Nation in Africa wrote about another African who’s about to lead the world. I will react to different sections later.
Obama’s election and the needed change, by Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigerian President, 1999 - 2007), Thursday, November 6, 2008 (more…)

