By Idris Akinbajo
Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, sat in silence, wearing a heavily starched blue Agbada and traditional Gobi cap arched sharply to the left, as the women panellists at the just-concluded 7th annual Trust Lecture series aimed barbed shots at the dominance of men in Africa's political landscape.
The mood at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, venue of the dialogue, was serious through the lecture series when a young man rose, during the question session, and accused the former president of "an act of wickedness" by deliberately scripting his transition to produce a lame and sick successor, whose term was bound to be characterised by inactivity.
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