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#NIGERIADECIDES2023: TIME TO EXPUNGE "SAI BABA" UDULATION FROM NIGERIA'S POLITICAL LEXICON

2015 till date, Nigeria's LEADERSHIP/GOVERNANCE BAR has been so LOWERED, that it has become imperative for the COWERY UDULATION "SAI BABA" to be EXPUNGED from Nigeria's Political Lexicon.
2/ Born March 5, 1937, in 1999, when former President Olusegun Obasanjo, became Nigeria's democratically elected President, he was already 62. The world over, including the U.S., at 60, you're a Senior Citizen. Thus, "BABA" crept into Nigeria's Modern Political Lexicon, in 1999.
3/ I believe in the biblical command which preaches RESPECT FOR ELDERS. I also believe in the aphorism that says RESPECT IS RECIPROCAL. But you see this word "BABA" has been so bastardised in Nigeria's Political Firmament, particularly, when a NIGERIAN PRESIDENT is called BABA.
3/ Given Nigeria's political realities, @nassnigeria & @NGFSecretariat, remain 2 FORCES that can keep Nigeria's President in check. Thus, why OBJ had a rough ride with all Senate Presidents from Chuba Okadigbo in 1999, to Ken Nnamani in 2007.

REASON?

THEY WERE CONTEMPORARIES.
4/ Nigeria's Governors Forum @NGFSecretariat led by former Governor @ChibuikeAmaechi was able to give former President @GEJonathan, a run for his money, even while still with the @OfficialPDPNig.

REASON?

THEY WERE CONTEMPORARIES.
5/ Fast forward to 2015, Nigerians brought back Major-General @MBuhari, a member of Obasanjo's SILENT GENERATION, as President, aged, 73. SAI BABA! SAI BABA! SAI BABA, rented the air. He got no CONTEMPORARIES holding elective offices, to put him IN CHECK.
6/ END OF THREAD- Fast forward to 2020, Nigeria's LEADERSHIP/GOVERNANCE BAR, has been so LOWERED. BABA @MBuhari GOES AWAY with almost all INDICATORS OF MISGOVERNANCE.

REASON?

LEAVE HIM ALONE. HE IS OUR BABA! HE IS TOO OLD TO BE STRESSED.

Come 2023, Nigerians, say #NEVERAGAIN.
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