Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola – remember him? I would not have needed to ask this sort of “foolish question”, as it were, but for the fact that, in this our obodo Nigeria, yesterday’s men of power and influence soon become today’s inconsequentials, hardly noticed or remembered by anyone.
Yesterday, they could make anyone an instant millionaire or billionaire or command the earth to swallow up anyone that steps on their toes. Today, they are a far cry from that, having climbed down from their Olympian horses. Their phones don’t ring incessantly as before.
Nothing captures this better than a post I watched on social media of a man who described the difference between being a man of power and being an ordinary citizen. …CONTINUE READING
