By Tony Eluemunor
Right now, Nigeria is sup-posed to have about the most experienced presi-dent on planet Earth. Or, how many serving Presidents have come onto their own when Gen. Muhammadu Buhari became Head of State on January 1st, 1984. That was 39 years ago! Yet, I’m reminded of Chinua Achebe’s saying in his first book of essays, Morning Yet On Creation Day; that experience does not automatically come from what happened “because much can happen to a stone without making that stone any wiser”.
So, he wrote that experience comes from the lessons we learn
from whatever has happened. This means that we could learn the right or wrong lessons or no
lessons at all. Yes, people repeat past mistakes simply because they fail to
learn the right lessons from past events.
