Madagascar’s ruling junta leader Col Michael Randrianirina lost his shit Monday over a pic of ousted President Andry Rajoelina being welcomed to Eswatini Friday by the small continental African monarchy’s King Mswati III, with Randrianirina issuing his “strongest condemnation” and calling the visit “politically unacceptable,” the BBC reports on someone sounding a bit insecure.
Randrianirina’s statement also made prominent mention of the fact that Rajoelina, who was ousted late last year after deadly civil unrest forced the coup, surrendered his Madagascan citizenship by becoming a citizen of another country, even further distancing the failed leader from any hope of returning to power. “I’m not mad. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I got mad,” the colonel might as well have said. Seriously, who’s re-legitimizing Rajoelina more, Mswati or the literally unelected self-proclaimed leader of a military junta that deposed him four months ago freaking the fuck out over a landed baron receiving a failed and unpopular itinerant? Christ, what an asshole.