Nigeria, Sept. 23 -- By some curious coincidence, the subject of tenure elongation and extension of presidential term limits caught the headlines in the last few days in Nigeria. In Accra, Ghana, at an event organised by the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, President Olusegun Obasanjo, chair of the occasion, was reported as having said that he did not, ahead of the 2007 general elections, seek to have a third term in office, but that if he truly wanted it, he could have enacted such a constitutional coup against the Nigerian people, but he as president was more interested in getting debt relief for Nigeria. He had inherited a Nigerian economy that was neck-deep in debt, a terribly run down economy and a badly managed country. Obasanjo, a for...