Have Nigerians truly suffered enough?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi IN the twilight of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, a drama played out in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly as senators squared up in a crunch tenure elongation. The day was May 16, 2006, one year before the end of Obasanjo’s constitutionally guaranteed maximum eight years of two terms. But Obasanjo didn’t want to leave, hence the need to amend the Constitution with an open ended-tenure. As pro-tenure elongation senators plotted their third term agenda, anti-Obasanjo forces also arranged their cards. On the day of the second reading of the Amendment Bill, the Senate President, Ken Nnamani, called out his colleagues one after the other and his predecessor, Adolphus Wabara, became the starboy. Many had expected Wabara, who, fortuitously, was the last to speak before the vote was taken, to kowtow to Obasanjo because the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was on his contrived budget scandal case. But, perhaps, sure of his inno...