ABUJA, Nigeria -- Top West African leader President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria pushed Togo's new military-installed leader on Thursday to step aside, telling him democracy was needed in a nation blighted by Africa's longest one-man rule.
In a case that has become a test of African leaders' willingness to crack down on one of their own, Obasanjo asked Gnassingbe and his aides Thursday "to retrace their steps and return to the position of constitutionality," Oyo said.
http://www.courant.com/hc-togo0218.artfeb18,0,7356922.storyThe President of
Nigeria is lecturing someone else about democracy?
Can't...resist...must...type...bad...joke...asbestos...suit...on now...
Has there ever been a worse case of the pot calling the kettle black?
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