Friday, September 7, 2007

You’re a failure*Akinjide sums up the Obasanjo years: •Says OBJ is neither leader nor statesman…But no regrets saving him from





By Linus Obogo
Saturday, September 15, 2007
In an irreconcilable opposite to Williams Shakespeare’s submission in Julius Ceasar that the evils that men do live after them, while their good deeds are often interred with their bones, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s outlawry, while in office has continued to resonate in his life time, since his grudging and resentful exit from power.
In what seems a postscript of Obasanjo’s eight years in office, now regarded as a tale of unmitigated disaster with unwholesome consequences, the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), has declared the ex-president as a monumental failure and wished that Nigeria never experiences characters like Obasanjo as leaders again.