What Mandela Told Me About Power ––Obasanjo
Here is what Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Friday in his tribute to the icon, Nelson Mandela:
"Certain that his task was completed, Mandela modestly refused to seek
re-election after his first term in office as his presidency elapsed. I
still recall his pragmatic words when he said to me ‘Olu, show me a
[reasonable] place in the world where a man of 80 years is running the
affairs of his country'.
"This, to me, reflects an unequaled sense of modesty for a man who spent
27 of the prime years of his life in prison for a just cause."
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