In fact, I think that such proper conducts as respect for elders and high official positions was omitted by Na_ Abba, and he went way beyond his leash., it is un-African for a 44 year-old person to talk this way to a 64-year old man who could have fathered a person of his age. It showed lack of breeding, proper home training from speaker of house of assembly. Such an uncouth character, i fumed , was a misfit to preside over a chamber of our national legislature. Where had parliamentary behavior gone, i wondered. Is it not an assumption that a parliamentarian is a person of model conduct that he is entrusted with the privilege to make laws for the society? Based on this assumption the lawmaker is addressed as the  Honourable  ?

What then is  honourable  about insulting the first citizen of a nation? Besides the question of the President' s age is the high office he occupies. It is rotten civics for a person to insult the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, whatever the circumstance. He is the human symbol of our sovereignty. And so on and so forth.. As in African societies where disrespect for elders is generally regarded as abominable, at times the elders might make a mistake, but the younger ones are always treat him with dignity. I have met so many Kano indigene, like Prince Oseni Bayero, Sanni Kakwanso, Mohammed Abacha, even late Sanni Abacha. I know them to be respectful, but I was so surprise to hear the utterances made by Na Abba to the person of The commander of Army forces of Nigeria, Even Obasanjo might not be a saint . People do not just get up and insult others.

Admittedly, some people are more predisposed to insult than the others. Such people. I have to condemn Na_ Abba for what he did. There are certain inescapable realities about respect. There are two ways in which respect is acquired. One is through the situation of authority or superiority (of which age in the African context is inclusive). The other is through personal conduct or example. By their age disparity Na_ Abba has every obligation to give General Obasanjo his due respect .whatever happened in the intervening period to change Na_ Abba's disposition to Obasanjo. Well, we must be honest to ourselves about the fact that the man who is currently occupying the position of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a fairly unusual or controversial personality and is not known for choosing his words the way a person occupying such a high position is supposed to. But we must agree that Obasanjo is still the President and the Commander in Chief of armed forces of Nigeria. Few other public figures in Nigeria have received Obasanjo acid tongue. One of them, His Royal highness Oba Okunade Sijuade, I was told Obasanjo told Sijuade that he doesn’t think that there is any leader in Ife town when he visited him at his palace in Ife. But Kabiyesi did not minced a word because of the stool that Obasanjo occupied now. That is a respect..

This is just one of the numerous perceived  un-presidential  utterances and conducts of Obasanjo that would have invited avoidable insult upon his person. I will take my own personal experience from where I was born for example, In Ibadan, people believe in archy, so far that somebody is older than you by a day, you must give him his due respect. And it is common among Ibadan indigene, they were born to be respectful, even the musician among them, so I wonder what type of legacy Alhaji Na abba is leaving behind, I hope Na abba realise that no tribal leader ever rule Nigeria successfully. He must learn how to use diplomacy in politics, if some people are pushing him , he must nut push himself. One old age proverb says that a child that says his father is poor and wretched, then himself is on course .