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An excellent piece. Reminds me of the Simon Kolawole I used to know.

Like my friend Chxta Nwanze will always say, the greatest undoing in the country is the toothless or perhaps better put - inadequate judicial system. That sad factor, is the fertile ground that Any Government In Power - AGIP (borrowed words of Simon Kolawole, Thisday) thrive on.

Political sycophancy is not peculiar to Nigeria...

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To start, I am not a Rufai fan nor apologist.

In some forum where I have had cause to talk about the race to Aso rock come 2011, I put Nuhu Ribadu and El-Rufai as some of the leading lights for an improved Nigeria.

Of the two, Ribadu easily gets my nod. Both can and may not be extricated from the perpetrated evils of the OBJ administration but they are the lesser evils to contend with.

Rufai's seemingly double-speak...