This Day (Lagos)
23 November 2008
United States of America's President-elect, Senator Barrack Obama last Thursday called President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on phone and had extensive discussion on a wide range of issues.
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The African youths must orgaize and stop hanging on to tribalism. Tribalism has been used by coloniasts and neocloniasts as an effective vehicle to disorgaize and exploit Africans resources.
African ruling elites have become the willing collaborators in undermining their fellow Africans using the same tool, tribalism. They have become beggars, begging for handouts obtained from the very resources they are unable to control or manage. SHAME!
The African youths must orgaize and stop hanging on to tribalism. Tribalism has been used by colonialists and neocolonialists as an effective vehicle to disorgaize and exploit Africans resources.
African ruling elites have become the willing collaborators in undermining their fellow Africans using the same tool, tribalism. They have become beggars, begging for handouts obtained from the very resources they are unable to control or manage. SHAME!
Obama cant do anything for africa or any other country soon he will have his hands full in america.That was political telephonics part of the record so that he can say I keep in touch with african leaders
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As much as we appreciate the President-Elect’s courtesy phone call to the current Nigerian President, Mr. Obama should be made aware, however, that Mr. Yaradua is not a democrat he pretends to be. His administration’s latest tendencies of using various arm of govt to harass reform-minded, former EFCC Chairman, in the person of Mr. Ribadu, is sending bad signals to any future reform-minded Nigerian that this is a fate that awaits any that dares to challenge the status quo’s unbridled govt officials’ corruption with impunity while the public lives in penury. A man that would cancel his predecessor's attempt to build health centers in every local govt areas of the federation to take care of our poor, while Mr. Yaradua jets abroad for his medical treatments at public expense, seems callous to me. And when the public complains, our so-called “Servant Leader” uses the Nigerian Secret Service to intimidate members of the Press that dared to publish public opinion criticizing his visionless administration. His penchant to solicit oath-taking of members of his administration so as to compel their silence & remain loyal to his dictatorship - is not what we expect a transparent democratic principle to be. If this is democracy, then we don’t want it –the military juntas were not as callous as this civilian one is. The current events in the country may lead to a people’s revolution that we will expect foreigners to stay out of. May God bless us all.