WHAT PUTIN AND OBAMA HAVE IN COMMON BY FANI-KAYODE

President Barack Obama's paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was a cook to a British army officer. President Vladimer Putin's paternal grandfather, Spiridon Ivanovitch Putin, was a cook in Lenin's country home and later became a cook to Josef Stalin.

Who would have ever thought that the grandson's of two mere cooks and men from such a humble lineage could ever become the Presidents of the two most powerful countries on the planet at more or less the same time. As the bible says, ''the Lord exalts the humble and resists the proud''.

Like Bakassi Peninsular Like Crimea Peninsular: Obasanjo Is A Coward - Fani-kayode

                 BETWEEN OBASANJO, PUTIN AND MARGARET THATCHER

The Nigerian Former Minister of Aviation, Culture and Tourism, who served during the regime of President Obasanjo, has again liking the Crimea crisis and Folkland Island dispute with the Bakassi Peninsula which Nigerian under president Olusengun Obasanjo had handed over the neighbouring country, Cameroon.

According to the former minister  "If President Olusegun Obasanjo had displayed just half the courage, firm resolve and strong determination over the Bakassi matter as President Vladimer Putin did over the Crimean crisis and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did over the Falkland Islands dispute, the Bakassi Peninsular and all it's people would still have been part and parcel of Nigeria today.