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Writing about Obasanjo years compels rather more than the Presidential Legacy. These two volumes focus on what he found on the table as he came in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999 and what he left on that table in 2007. They capture the essence of his 8-year administration. Mandela�s forward speaks of an African leader with outstanding qualities of sustained commitment, genuine Africa-ness and exemplary performance and the preface, of a man who has knit for himself a sizeable strand in the metaphoric tapestry of corpus Nigeria. This Socio-political scan converse a wide spectrum of activities in governance, infrastructure, the social service, crisis in transparency, oil, finance, communication, security, international affair, power in megawatts and in judicial tongue. These essays that flow the scholar, diplomat, entrepreneur, bureaucrat, solder and cleric, constitute a quasi-historical document and dispassionately appraise the tenor of Obasanjo�s tenure as President......