Obasanjo should have checked his enormous ego at the door and gotten on his knees if necessary and begged because in his own backyard, AIDS rages on silently. I mean from all indications he wants to be an African world leader. Simply flying to the White House to give lip service to the AIDS issue is not going to cut it. AIDS in Africa is more than an epidemic. It is a war that has devastated Southern African nations and is making its across the continent to Nigeria and other West African nations.
Attitudes have to change fast.
Such a high profile death to AIDS should have been a wake-up call. Sadly it was not. Even in South Africa where President Thabo Mbeki, shocked the World with his outrageous comments that poverty causes AIDS, the country has managed to force Western pharmaceutical giants to make their life saving cocktails available at low cost prices. Or does he think herbalists who cure Magun will be able to handle the scourge as it hits harder and harder in our towns and cities. Perhaps, the president believes in the doctor just steps away from him in Aso Rock who claims to have cured many.