This is a 'Must Read Interview.
"Countries are built by philosophers. The whole concept of a philosopher king is not about resources. It is about ideas. Ideas rule the world. And ideas are as a result of fertile imagination that is far from all the rubble and rustle that is the reality of every day life in Nigeria."
"What I am saying is that the so called political elites were a bunch of contractors, who will do business with anyone. The result is that these are the kind of people that presented themselves as politicians and these are the people we had to choose from. The kind of freshness that you require from a transition never happened in Nigeria. And this is why we are still some of the key players in politics today."
"They are in their eighties, some are way beyond their eighties, they are still the key players and actors on the political scene. Clearly, in basic political science, one of the obstacles to democracy is military rule, another obstacle is gerontocracy, that is the presence of too many old people in a democracy."
"Gerontocracy scuttles democracy especially in Africa where we think that ,age is synonymous with wisdom. How we get past all that is beyond the saying that we are going to have a conference or saying that we are going to have a national Assembly to do things differently. Even at the National Assembly we have a problem." Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah: The Vanguard March 03, 2014
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