Seventy. Three scores and ten. As a christian, President Olusegun Obasanjo has made it to the biblical age. As an african, he has entered the elders grotto. As a soldier, he has made the brass and retired as an on-tired fully tried general.
Uniquely, this man has both been made by history even as he has made amazing history. He was military head of state, and became two-term civilian president in our nascent democracy. The only such nigerian ever! At 70, he leaves office in May 2007.
President Obasanjo is a passionate family man with a very large, very diverse family.
Happy birthday to a leader who, with all his pluses & minuses, is witty, courageous, cerebral, humourous, patriotic and truly fortunate.
As we wish him many happy returns, we wish him the wisdom and capacity to conduct a free and fair democratic transition in the April Elections.
70 Hearty Cheers!
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