PAUSE & PONDER: EL RUFAI on BUHARI'S AMBITION' I was 25yrs old when BUHARI & BABANGIDA were Heads of State & i'm now 50 & they still want to be Head of State. I dont understand that. If you ask any of these people running for presidency, they will think that BlackBerry is a fruit '.- NASIR EL-RUFAI, THE SUN, MARCH 25, 2012

Those old foggies need to retire and tend to their grandchildren. Haba! They've been ruling this country by proxy since they left office three 2/3 decades ago. What do they want again, biko?

Delydex: PAUSE & PONDER: EL RUFAI on BUHARI'S AMBITION' I was 25yrs old when BUHARI & BABANGIDA were Heads of State & i'm now 50 & they still want to be Head of State. I dont understand that. If you ask any of these people running for presidency, they will think that BlackBerry is a fruit '.- NASIR EL-RUFAI, THE SUN, MARCH 25, 2012

OlusolaWarrior: Those old foggies need to retire and tend to their grandchildren. Haba! They've been ruling this country by proxy since they left office three 2/3 decades ago. What do they want again, biko?

I think it is a cultural thing. Many covet Power so that they can be seen as tin-gods. See the al-majiri syndrome in the north. Youth are seen as tools fit to foment chaos, thereafter; they are abandoned and left to rot. When trouble shows up again, they are revisited and then left again to rot, and the process goes on an endless cycle.

It a cyclic political power mess. The truth is, no one in power is ready to leave. Their hangers on, will not want them to; because of the Longer-throat syndrome!

Then again, when you have Lawyers, Doctors, etc and the so-called Professors of Engineering who have been there and are still there and have held on, thinking to stay till eternity; , there are huge boulders on the path of youth development. They have nothing to offer, they dont understand the current global trend. they just cant imagine it. It's to me actually, no surprise to me the El-Rufai comment that when you ask these fellows, they will 'think that BlackBerry is a fruit'.

In other words, they now appear to suffer from age-related consequences of declining mental ability to logically process from dying brain cells.