President Olusegun Obasanjo’s life is intertwined with the formation and development of Nigeria as a country, and for this reason both (country and citizen) share similarities and dissimilarities or divergence, which are easily cognizable to even a casual onlooker.
Britain formed Nigeria out of diverse mass of conquered peoples marked by a humongous violence, which Fela Anikulapo Kuti has characterized as “tears, sorrows and blood.” The instrument used to achieve the conquest and formation of Nigeria was the “armed forces” provided by the Britain directly and indirectly by public and private military resources as epitomized by British monarch’s regiments and that of commercial concerns like Sir.
Obasanjo’s emergence as a shining star in Nigeria’s military and political firmament was bolstered by the ethnic cleansing that July 29, 1966 Araba Coupists carried out of the Igbo military officer corps, and those that escaped the pogroms pledged their alliance to the Biafra cause which after the war disabled them in the system. Thus cleansed out of Nigerian armed forces, General Obasanjo cannot but shine like a lodestar out of the geophysical firmament of mediocrity foisted on Nigeria.
Why do these political principalities rage and imagine vainglories over the innocuous message this great statesman has made to his fellow compatriots? Have these politicians taken time to read the message and appreciate the verities of it? This letter by President Obasanjo ranks as one of the best so far written as it can best be described as his last card on Nigeria to steer a course leading to life instead of death.
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