Monday, October 16, 2006
OBJ 006:Gunning for A Legacy
There is a new page of leadership in sight world over and there is renewed pace by the outgoing ones to etch their names in gold before their time runs out.
The Labour Party in UK has choked Tony Blair enough to agree to step down. And in his words he said he would not be in the office in a year’s time. Gordon Brown is warming up to take over.
In Japan, Shinzo Abe would face a daunting challenge of winning the hearts of the Japanese electorate who seem more now attached to the outgoing Junichiro Koizumi who is also stepping down because of the term limits imposed by his own party constitution.
At the New York office of the UN, Koffi Annan would not be staying longer than December 31st. And in the United States of America the politics to succeed George Bush is hotting up too. Senator John McCain, Senator Hillary Clinton and a few other ‘regulars’ are buying attention with several humanitarian projects like “the theory of curbing the Osamalets”, or “how to save the world’s endangered mosquitoes from extinction” etc.
In Nigeria, the electorate is daily being proved right that president Olusegun Obasanjo needn’t be there at all-he has never won any election in the first place. The race to take over from him is also as fierce as ever.
He has spent his second term trying to dab the wound the PDP riggings inflicted on our national conscience. But no way, he has not been successful and his Public rating has sunk deeper.
The third term trick has failed, public trails of corruption has been more of an anti third term reprisal and of late. The mud slinging between him and Atiku (the VeePee) has left the polity more like a Bolekaja* affair.
But the Nigeria’s president seem to have found a way to make sure his two-term democratic rule does is not erased from the country history. The Defense Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) has been given the go ahead to fabricate local AK-47.
The gun, which is one the presidential measure to ‘check violence’ at next year’s elections will also be nicknamed OBJ006.
It has nothing to do with Hollywood; it was just a way to immortalize the most troubled year of his life. The year that all he stood for in leadership crumbled: including integrity.
Returning to his poultry farm in Otta in 2007 is not negotiable but not without copies of OBJ006 both as souvenir and as companion. We all are watching our back.
The Labour Party in UK has choked Tony Blair enough to agree to step down. And in his words he said he would not be in the office in a year’s time. Gordon Brown is warming up to take over.
In Japan, Shinzo Abe would face a daunting challenge of winning the hearts of the Japanese electorate who seem more now attached to the outgoing Junichiro Koizumi who is also stepping down because of the term limits imposed by his own party constitution.
At the New York office of the UN, Koffi Annan would not be staying longer than December 31st. And in the United States of America the politics to succeed George Bush is hotting up too. Senator John McCain, Senator Hillary Clinton and a few other ‘regulars’ are buying attention with several humanitarian projects like “the theory of curbing the Osamalets”, or “how to save the world’s endangered mosquitoes from extinction” etc.
In Nigeria, the electorate is daily being proved right that president Olusegun Obasanjo needn’t be there at all-he has never won any election in the first place. The race to take over from him is also as fierce as ever.
He has spent his second term trying to dab the wound the PDP riggings inflicted on our national conscience. But no way, he has not been successful and his Public rating has sunk deeper.
The third term trick has failed, public trails of corruption has been more of an anti third term reprisal and of late. The mud slinging between him and Atiku (the VeePee) has left the polity more like a Bolekaja* affair.
But the Nigeria’s president seem to have found a way to make sure his two-term democratic rule does is not erased from the country history. The Defense Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) has been given the go ahead to fabricate local AK-47.
The gun, which is one the presidential measure to ‘check violence’ at next year’s elections will also be nicknamed OBJ006.
It has nothing to do with Hollywood; it was just a way to immortalize the most troubled year of his life. The year that all he stood for in leadership crumbled: including integrity.
Returning to his poultry farm in Otta in 2007 is not negotiable but not without copies of OBJ006 both as souvenir and as companion. We all are watching our back.
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OBJ has no option but to step down come May 29, 2007. He is definitely trying to leave a legacy, the activities of the EFCC for instance. Though they have been accused of being sellective, still catching any thief at all, sellective or not, is better that catching none.
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