Don't throw stones if you live in a glass house...and he did !

The topic of this post is meant to describe the current indictment of our "great" president of Nigeria,Olusegun Obasanjo, who is not so great afterall after his indictment by the senate. In the past couple of months, the executive arm of government in Nigeria has been in turmoil due to the persistent war between the president's camp and vice-presidents camp, with both sides exchanging words and salvos, accusing each other of corruption. Then last week, the unbelieveable happened, the president himself- Baba Iyabo- along with his vice was indicted by a senate panel and referred to the independent corrupt pratices commission...and all hell was let loose. The president's camp accused the senate of bias..even Ribadu, the head of a partial anti corruption commission, went ahead to accuse the senate of trying to destroy the nation. What ! Just because Fasawe, a common friend of both the president and his vice, finally confirmed what all Nigerians have previously suspected, that the president was also involved in the whole corruption scandal involving his vice. And the best part of it, is that our dear president has not yet come out to deny the allegations..inspite of how serious this accusation is...it doesn't take a genius to know that he's carefully planning his strategy as a former military commando, although his media aides have also come out to berate the senate and its panel. My prediction, is at the end of the day the president would come out and say something different different, threaten, coerce, bribe and blackmail and ...story don end be dat!!......and the best part of this entire story is that the vice president's camp has applauded the outcome from the senate and saying that "finally, we have justice". What justice?....that the president was also indicted, No mention was made of the vice president's indictment as well because it has been an open secret that the vice president has always been guilty of misappropriating government's fund, but he wasn't alone...he had a partner, and now it seems the other culprit has been caught. I've been laughing so much about seeing the president and his vice in the same jail, and exchanging blows...who will be the victor..an ex- soldier and an ex-custom officer...although I'm sure our "great" president would never return to jail again, not after his one touching experience where he barely escaped with his life.

But the most intriguing and disturbing aspect of this entire scenario, was the recess embarked upon till after the elections. Why would the senate go on recess when such serious and impeachable offences have been committed by the president and his vice. I do hope that when they return, after thier undeserved holidays, we would get to feel the effect of democracy.

On a different note, another political party has gone to court to stop the April elections...the same thing that happened in 1993, before the military junta annulled the freeest and fairest election in Nigeria citing the court ruling as an excuse.....and this time around the courts have been warned by eminent Nigerian to be "responsible" in their rulings. I hope they heed this warning, because a repeat of 1993 cannot be condoned again.

On a lighter note, yesterday was the first time for me to play soccer out doors, and although the field was still wet since it just stopped snowing a couple of weeks ago, it was a lot of fun. Trying to get ready for our yearly soccer tournament has not been easy, and with our new striker (yours sincerely), my team mates all hope we can win it this time. Its very funny to think that when I was in Nigeria,no one thought I could be a great footballer (I have to stop using this soccer s**t), but here I am, worshipped like a god...its unbelievable, atleast to me. Today's weather looks very warm as well, and I hope it stays that way. I have a meeting with my graduate advisor, wait..have I told you about him,I will do that in my next post and I'm sure there would be fireworks again at this meeting. I'm out folks.