OBAMA: NIGERIA'S BUSY BODY CLASS

Very recently in warri, I saw a sticky tag on a Mercedes Benz car with the inscription, Obama ’08 which got me thinking. While I was yet to appreciate the worth of such an exercise, an advert also on the Obama’s presidential bid, surfaced on the net work of Nigeria Television Authority offering dinner tickets worth hundreds of thousand of naira.
Obama, a black man with an African origin, recently took his campaign for the presidency of the United States to different parts of the world to acquaint the government and citizens of such nations with his position on issues which his country America, created and has succeeded in foisting on the rest of the world as a global problem like terrorism, HIV and AIDS, trade relation amongst many others. He did not consider any part of Africa, not even Madiba’s South Africa for a u-turn ala Manchester united recent treatment to Nigeria. One would have thought that with his country determination to harness the gulf of guinea ahead of China, through a security report of the region being a potential terrorist haven, that he would have come to expatiate on the high or low command that his country military has magisterially proposed for us. I guess that he considers that of little importance since they believe that they can always arm-twist the government to do their bidding.
I know that the Nigerian supporters of Obama are on to something. They are Nigerians and like to be called investors but they must know this, if they consider President Yaradua’s national assembly too inquisitive for asking questions about a mere $16 billion power project, then you should know that the one in Obama’s America probes into funny issues like gifts of ordinary wrist watch that we here prays would become our lot or hotel accommodation. That they are so “idle” that they have time to ask question about what we here would consider a private affairs like keeping concubines. That obama’s America does not celebrate those who obeys the law because it is a way of life there and is very strict in enforcing the laws against those who have a problem with obeying it. That contract is not awarded along party lines. It will in summary, not provide them with any kind of special favour or access to America’s economy. There, policies are made and followed to the letter.
I have no doubt in my mind that those involve in this busy body Obama for president campaign knows all this and even more and I am confident there is something in this venture for them; it might be that they hope the man on becoming President will, on their promptings, ask our own President to compensate them with positions or patronage of their choosing but I trust our President, he might humour these leaders of developed nations by affecting a subservient behaviour when soliciting their cooperation towards solving some of our problems, but would definitely scream a capital no when it comes to bending the rule of the game. It bears repeating. There is something in it for them and I do not want to believe that it is about mobilizing financial support that would end up in private purse but I believe there is something in it. They are too business minded to throw away their money and time on such seemingly notice me venture.
However, should it be that they are idle or do not know what to do with their money, I would advise that they look towards the homes for senior citizens or the orphans and find worthy causes there for such resources, there is the Kanu Hearth foundation. Should they have any problem with locating any of these classes, then they should consult a catholic priest or sister. There achievement in this regard is yet to be matched by any group any where in the world or better still, this contributor. This would be pleasing to God and they will find favour in the sight of the creator, for their soul.
Obama deserve our support not because he will cause any significant changes in America’s policy towards us as Africans or Nigerians but because he has a skin pigmentation that is somewhat like ours and therefore satisfies some psychological need in colored Americans which according to history were procured like goods from Africa. Any other suggestion about the worth of his presidency to Africans is a fallacy. He is an American, just like McCain if not more than.
Ilobi Austin. http://www.vibratingaustin.blogspot.com/ resides in warri.