Three great men :
1. Muhammad ( s.a.w) Prophet of Islam ( Prophet and President of the First Muslim State, headquartered in Medina)
2. Ali (a.s.) Imam
There was so much huffing and puffing about President Obama's Birth Certificate, the school leaving certificate of President Buhari , and it was not so long ago that US Secretary of State US Rex Tillerson is reported to have disrespected his President by referring to him as "a moron"...
Bearing in mind that "a Muslim is by definition an intellectual" the intelligentsia in Nigeria can be said to be very broad based indeed. Or maybe not? Nigerian intelligentsia ( including all the technocrats , scholars, Professors who produce light only)
One cannot be sure about who Chidi is alluding to, hinting at or targetting when he talks about "a highly rated intellectual". Maybe, all of the Super-Alagbas in this forum? Maybe, all of the front runners in the February 2019 presidential race? Maybe, it's just a general statement , unless of course Chidi is doing some double-speak, on the one hand railing against Nigeria ( Nigerians) being hell-bent on instituting a geniocracy – and at the same time saying cautioning that a "highly rated" intellectual does not necessarily have to be elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria but in the name of meritocracy, as Chidi advises, "If one is "a highly rated intellectual", then, one should be an adviser/consultant/trainer, not necessarily a President. "
Chidi why did you delete my Facebook comment which I posted last night on this your quote of the day ? Do you have the poetic licence to do that ? Is that part of your freedom of speech to delete other people's comments?
A list of forms of government and types of government
On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 13:40:50 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM wrote:
If one is "a highly rated intellectual", then, one should be an adviser/consultant/trainer, not necessarily a President.CAO.
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