Nigeria: Beware The Ides Of March
By Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie “Beware the Ides of March ,” said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s famous play Julius Caesar . In those words, Caesar was given an alert about his imminent assassination in the hands of Roman politicians, among whom was his friend Brutus. Approaching another year of elections, this admonition has become frightfully pertinent. *Cardinal Okogie For what is being witnessed looks like a reenactment of the Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In this reenactment, Julius Caesar would represent Nigeria , the Roman politicians who plotted his assassination would represent the average Nigerian politician, with Brutus, the politician pretending to be Caesar’s friend, representing politicians who, in their diabolically deadly intrigues, pretend to love Nigeria , but are actually plotting her descent into bloody disintegration. While we have a spiritual obligation to pray the good Lord, whose mighty arm scatters the prou...