I don't know ...
He expressed fawning, bowing reverence to the Saudis and other Arab or Aryan-Mideast leaders and religious leaders. Today, he's standing unnaturally erect, as though to counter Francis stooped reverent posture, a man of humility, even if he is misguided.
To be sure, the media are making a huge fuss and eating up the pomp and circumstance, and I even heard at least one reference to the weather and wondering whether or not "the pope was behind that." No, he wasn't.
But it looks to me like Odumba is trying to make himself bigger than the pope, which isn't hard, given the guy's an 80-year-old man. The posturing of Odumba looks more to me like rejection than fawning. He is, after all, a Muslim, right?
What? No one can take a joke?