Even in my tired state, I am listening (yes too tired to watch) to FOX
News as they do their best possible to ensure OBAMA is removed from
office this coming elections in America. Listening to the crimes
leveled against Obama, I felt transported to Nigeria and I almost felt
mosquito bite me because of how close the arguments and accusations
against Obama resembled the ones against GEJ.
Okay, GEJ is not the orator Obama is nor does he have Obama's charm but
in the most fundamental way, I see a serious similarity chief of which
is that they both seem to have a God that insists on elevating them.
Both of them are born to African fathers and while Obama's Kenyan negro
heritage makes him a minority, GEJ's Ijaw parentage puts him outside the Hausa-Fulani/Yoruba/Ibo majority tribes. Thus neither of them growing up
dare dream of being President.
When circumstances, luck and or God ensured events made it possible for
both of them to aspire to the highest office of their lands, they were
ranked outsiders
Both were told "they had no experience" Obama was a senator
with no executive experience while GEJ was a deputy Guv then Guv.
However events and or luck or God turned that inexperience to "fresh
air" in GEJ's case and "Change" in Obamas.
Both of them are some of the first leaders to embrace facebook. Their support base is the youths and win they did against
traditional powers blocks...power blocks that were determined to stop
both of them from the onset.
While the Republican senators swore from
day one to "make Obama fail by opposing his policies", the Nigerian
power block swore to render GEJ's government "ungovernable"
Thus while Obama has sweated everyday for his policies to be approved by a
Republican Senate, GEJ has totally been distracted by Boko Haram.
Obama like GEJ has had very low ratings in first two years of rule.
His "yes we can" like GEJ's "I had no shoes" are butt of jokes and
ridicule as has been the "fresh air".
The opposition to both of them seem to be profiting. While the Ryan's
(Romney's VP Nominee) who while they were Senators voted and truncated
obama's policies, in Nigeria, the very elements that are the cause of
retrogression and unrest are the ones screaming loudest and who stand to
profit the most should Obama lose or GEJ be removed. talk about eating
your cake and having it!!!
The most annoying as i listen to FOX is how the Republicans blame Obama
for "pre-existing medical conditions". They point to 15 trillion debt of
America and have a big clock to remind America of their debt...when
majority of it was acquired by the Republican former President BUSH. In
same vein I listen to the the Buharis, Babangidas, El Rufai etc blame
GEJ for NEPA, insecurity, and other malaise that are indeed not his
making nor happenings generated by his rule. Like Ryan the VP Nominee
says "You promised to solve it so solve it" a mantra I have heard in
many quarters said to GEJ. They point out increased debt even in Obama's
time as they point to GEJ's.
Thus these two must pack the excrements shat by other bottoms and are
blamed for the odours and while they both try to pack it, they ensure
the tissue papers and everything needed to pack the faeces is not
available to the presidents. The very ones that shat and farted are the
ones holding their noses and screaming the loudest.
For Obama and GEJ, the silent majority know who shat. They listen to the
broadcasts and say nothing while the minority take to television and
facebook with twitter. the powers know both of them are Collosi. In
GEJ's case, there is a powerful pressure for him not to recontest in
2015. In Obama's case it is to come on TV and lie abt factories he did
not close as if he did.
CNN did a documentary on George Bush Senior which aired yesterday
september 3rd 2012 and even as an octogenarian, George Bush spoke of the
pain he felt losing to Bill Clinton and how he would never forgive Ross
Perot the Billionaire independent candidate who he blames for his loss.
Seeing the pain in Bush's eyes despite his son having been president, I
came to understand how it must feel for Hausa/Fulani Supremacists and
also White racists seeing that not only did power leave their hand, but
to a group they consider inferior and not good enough to be amongst them
how much more rule them. i can hear their heart break and heart fill
with hate and determination to see the incumbent lose.
However like I said, God chooses those he blesses and Obama and GEJ have
been blessed by God as first of their people to rise to that exalted
position of president without being the most qualified. And just as God
delivered Osama to Obama when God chose.. an achievement of which is
cornerstone of Obama's bragging rights, I believe that is how God will
deliver Boko Haram to GEJ at his chosen time. When God chooses a man, or
a people, he is persecuted and written off then he rises. Examples of
this include the nation of Israel which has been conquered severally yet
exist still and prospering and King David who was an outlaw, begged bread from temple
and even as King endured an uprising from his own son Absolom.
Like I
told my brother Riete Ofugara inbetween arguing about arsenal and
Chelsea, Obama is a child of Destiny much like GEJ. .To bet against them
is to lose badly
Indeed of Obama and Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, if there exist no more
similarities, this one you cannot deny, they are the two men who are
president of countries i am resident of and if from their back you say "Mr
president Sir", both will turn in response because they are both the rulers one of the most powerful country on earth, the other the most populous black country on eart.
God bless Nigeria and America
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