Lord Palmerston, a 19th-century British Prime Minister, famously coined the saying: “There are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests.” He was talking about relations between nations. However, Nigerian politicians have unashamedly hijacked the maxim to justify their utterly unprincipled and chameleonic behaviour. Nigeria is a country where politicians go to bed saying one thing and wake up saying the exact opposite without so much as blinking an eye, a country where political relationships are defined not by principles but by
Lord Palmerston, a 19th-century British Prime Minister, famously coined the saying: “There are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests.” He was talking about relations between nations. However, Nigerian politicians have unashamedly hijacked the maxim to justify their utterly unprincipled and chameleonic behaviour. Nigeria is a country where politicians go to bed saying one thing and wake up saying the exact opposite without so much as blinking an eye, a country where political relationships are defined not by principles but by
