Incidentally, President Obasanjo is making it all look curiouser and curiouser. It is as though we are still in the trenches of Biafra, given the gaping divide in the country. It clearly shows we are muddling our future with a fratricidal past. There are so many wrongs to redress. For instance, Emmanuel Ifeajuna who won this country's first Commonwealth Games gold medal cannot be inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame, yet the cooks and mai-guards who went to the same 1958 games in Vancouver, Canada were honored.
Nothing apparently is beneath the winners of the Nigerian civil war.
Today's conduct of the winners of the civil war reminds me of an incident during the war. I was hunting rats with a friend of mine when my younger brother joined the hunt. We had actually killed a rat before my brother came. We did not make any other kill, and when it was time to share the booty, I told my partner that my brother deserved a share. The winners of the Nigerian civil war have been ruling this country amongst themselves since the end of that war, and they have been going round in circles making no progress at all.