Reflections on the Presidential Visit to the U.S.

I am listening to T. D. Jakes' message titled, "Destinies Flock Together" as I write this and I am enthralled by his definition of rhythm and how it plays out in destiny. For him, destiny has a pulse and those whose destinies must work/walk together must fall in tune with each other's rhythm. He says: "Everything that is great has a rhythm ... life has a rhythm ... life is controlled by rhythm." For us to succeed in life and get the rhythm of champions, we must pick up the pace in order to walk in tandem with them.

And this makes me understand everything that is wrong with the present administration: it is a government that is yet to find its rhythm! A government of innumerable false starts! A government that is better in opposition than in power! A government that was so busy with attacking their predecessors even after winning the elections, that they did not see fit to prepare to turn their promises into realities. There are so many inane comments and actions that this government has made that have made its most ardent promoters to be scrambling for rationalizations that a single write-up cannot do justice to them all. I am picking on just one: the much-publicized U.S. visit or what I call, The U.S. Jamboree! By the time the cost of that jamboree is calculated, it will be obvious that it was a jamboree.

Looking for justification for that visit, PMB's handlers have now filled the Internet with stories of a list of corrupt officers which President Obama purportedly handed over PMB. I guess they were insulted, as I was, by the fact that while our own president was gallivanting around the U.S. Capital, his host travelled to his own continent to Kenya. Before the visit, we were told, through unofficial means as usual, that they were going to sign a deal to purchase arms for fighting BH. But a surprise was waiting: the U.S. Government refused. Why? Due to the ore-election propaganda promoted by the APC about the human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by the Nigerian military. I remember watching one of such documentaries abroad and I remember telling my hosts then that is was a smear campaign targeted at the then-government of GEJ. Unlike Nigerians that forget easily, Americans don't. They remembered the purported human rights abuses. The authors of the campaign thought that once GEJ goes that the West will forget, but it didn't happen like that. The evil planted for another has caught up with them. Before you through up those lame arguments, ask yourself:

Why is it that the Nigerian government under GEJ gathered its harshest criticisms only at the time it recorded victories against BH especially under Ihejirika? The answer is simple: GEJ's government must by all means to be projected as a failure, hence the creation of the Chibok hoax or is it not? Why haven't they found them? But let's leave that matter for fear of digression!

Now that PMB is back, they are out with another story: The list of corrupt officers!

Are these people daft or do they think we are plain stupid? 

So that list cannot be handed over to the Nigerian ambassador for onward submission to the president? 

If there is any such list at all, shouldn't it be the Nigerian government that should produce one?

Did the president need to go with all those gluttonous governors and Oshiomole's new wife in order to get a list?

Permit me to add that if the names of a good number of those that accompanied him on that trip are not on that list, the. It is an APC-doctored list.

If this government is serious about fighting corruption at all and it needs the U.S. To do that, the Haliburton scandal should be a top priority. But of course, we are waiting if PMB has the will to go through with that now that no mention is even being made about it. Let's see when this president will rise above pursuing those who scuttled his government in 1985 and fast-forward to tackling the problems of a nation that is 30 years ahead.

One more thing, tell the president to find a better way of managing his information and public relations office. He said more things to the press while in the U.S. than he has said to the Nigerian press since taking over.

100 days in office loading and no movement yet... Change in deed has come, but what is the predilection of this change?