A Day In The Life of President Jonathan And General Buhari

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. – Budha

I have recently become fixated in studying the early lives of our presidential contestants and public officials. We are shaped by our academic education and our professions. This is my current focus. Perhaps by visiting their past we can better predict our future.

The early life of the “people’s General,” Muhammadu Buhari and how a military life of discipline stopped people like himself and his late partner, general Tunde Idiagbon from ever being caught smiling. General Buhari I believe said you only smile on annual occasions. I grew up with a personal relationship with General Tunde Idiagbon. I sat with him for tons of hours. He had a close friend that was the funniest man on the planet—a jester who cracked jokes about jokes, literally. Late Tunde Idiagbon never smiled, talk less laughed. These are a very disciplined crop of people. The army has changed these days where you see public pictures of its top chiefs popping bottles and raising glasses; obese and morose looking. But let’s not deviate.

GMB Those Days

Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had an interesting past—not talking about the fact that he did not just have shoes but had a thing for fancy shoes with really high heels—he studied zoology. 

Goodluck Jonathan with shoes

The other thing notable about these decapods (ten-leg) crustaceans is their cannibalism.

As you watch them you see them pick on dead bodies of fellow shrimp and gobble them up.

They find skin, animal parts and other dead stuff and eat it. They are scavengers.

Some shrimp actually eat other shrimp alive. I watched video where ghost shrimp were eating each other alive.

One day of studying the life of shrimp was a tasking and slightly harrowing experience. I’ll stick to just eating them. I congratulate our president on his academic prowess. I will be glad to soon read his thesis and any other collegiate academic publications to know more about this great person in Nigeria’s history.