Former President General Olusegun Obasanjo or Baba Iyabo as he is fondly called is one Nigerian that loves to be in the spotlight, giving sermons, criticisms and homilies on self righteousness. Even though he sees the press as mindless and godless folk and placed them in the same category with dogs, Baba still revels in using whatever medium he finds to pontificate on national issues.

You see Obasanjo as a statesman has a thing for criticizing everybody, a habit he found too pleasant years ago when he was a potbellied military head of state. He loved taking potshots at the nation’s greats and even the likes of Azikiwe and Awolowo were not spared from such diabolical like criticisms.

Away from power, Obasanjo kept up the boogie, waltzing and traipsing with his Asheju rhythms in which he told every leader who came after him his life history. He chalked up points with the general public for his barbed like litany of polemics, he hemmed and hawed criticizing everything under the Nigerian sun, unfortunately when fate ushered the General in for a second stint as president, the same Obasanjo could not live up to his “talk on policies with a human face” or his disdain for the corrupt elite, Obasanjo’s eight years as president witnessed in monumental proportions the very issues he criticized all for.

So when an Obasanjo engages in a shadowy denouement of President Buhari’s yet to be completed tenure by stating that the incumbent had done his best to proffer solutions to the security challenges confronting the nation and that expecting more from the Katsina-born retired major general was akin to kicking a dead horse.