ELECTION USA: PUTIN TO BEAT

The most un-usual of election is upon the globe, in its over two centuries plus the United States of America has never been in this sort of situation politically; where outsiders are front runners getting into the last twelve months to the election on the GOP ticket. The American axiom "Democrats fall in love", "Republicans fall in line" suddenly has a totally new meaning with Hillary Clinton not a likeable candidate, but seemingly has the demographic in her favour plus no serious challengers for the ticket in her party is now falling in line while the GOP candidates, the outsiders mostly Trump and Carson being likeable and voters falling in love with them.
GOP' Trump has said as a business man he will be able to negotiate with Putin and have a win-win situation and has also said that he will let China understand that to short change a business partner is bad business, problem is that Trump has no diplomatic experiences and has thus far displayed a very poor skill at it. Hillary Clinton on the other hand has a very vast diplomatic expertise, knows and understands how Washington works and has been part of the political class for long, but has no good stand with Russia historically. Putin, I am certain will be having fun watching the dramatist persona engage themselves especially Trump who is diplomatically clueless. The real test will be to still be talking about Trump and Carson come January, it will simply mean that the Americans are fed up with the political core class. An unusual election is likely to produce an unusual outcome, wishing that Americans will look beyond the rhetorics of unserious Trump and see the honesty of Carson. Hillary is of the old block and has no new deal for the globe.

HUSHED!

To say that President Mohammadu Buhari has capitulated to the forces that have held down the country for donkey years now will be an understatement and factually, truthfully, obviously an open and nude truth. He has displayed un-faithfulness, unfairness and mistrust in his contract terms with Nigerians who trusted him as the last hope of the prolactorates. After a very extended wait for him to nominate his ministers, he showed to Nigerians a fractured list of mostly loyalist or sons of his old buddies who showed him favours of different kind during his hustling to wrestle power from GEJ. He said and I quote "I belong to everyone and I belong to no one." What enormity of a lie, brazenly told to Nigerians and the international community on May 29th, 2015. PMB has not only shown Nigerians and the world that he belongs to some people, he has ultimately shown that he cannot tackle the hydra headed monster called corruption. This he proved by nominating a man whom yes has not been convicted by a court of competent jurisprudence but has an indictment against him from his own home state. Considering the facts as they are, it is obvious that PMB is owned by some who played prominent role in bringing him to power; no other reasons can justify the inclusion of Rotimi Amechi in his list of ministerial nominees. PMB would have shown Nigerians that he is nobody's stooge by leaving out Rotimi Amechi pending his acquittal by the laws of the country. He instead emboldened Rotimi Amechi by giving him edge to politically upstage the judicial process, in doing so PMB sold out on Nigerians who out of frustration with the old order voted him into power for a change to happen in their life time; but alas. With the hushed ministerial screening exercise conducted to please PMB and save the Senate President' seat. No one needs telling that in politics you reward loyalist and those who have been seen to have done enough to get you into office, but not when the mantra was "CHANGE", "WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION". PMB would be remembered early in his administration history as the one that chickened out when it mattered most, and I bet it will count against him in the next general election except of course for Mahmoud Yakoub. We are wiser!