Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: OBAMA’S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA

Dear Sister,

As always you are spot on. Jimmy Carter came in 76 during OBJ's first showing and that was the only time the street lights from Ikeja Airport to Dodan Barracks worked. Immediately he left the rot set in.

The next time 40 years later that they shone was when Governor Raji Fashola made them shine and nobody visited.

By the way Queen Elizabeth had come and many popes after and we are far beyond square one in reverse. My sad observation is that we are just too plastic and we seek validation from strange sources. Unmerited wealth or unearned praise and showing off lies. So Obama is the only star in our firmament who will validate our stupidity with a visit?

I am sure there are some countries who told him that their President is too busy building their nation to receive him just yet. Maybe next time.
Cheers.

IBK
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: OBAMA'S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA
Sent: May 31, 2013 6:02 PM

Oh Ayo, why?  But if, as you say, our ambassador to the US is still begging Obama to come here, I guess the disappointment and embarrassment are self-induced.  If the only thing that will induce Nigeria's rulers to do the right thing is a fleeting visit from Barack Obama, he had as well better not come [sic!].  After all, what happens when he has been and gone?  And is it his coming or not coming that will actually change the facts on the ground?  Everybody who has seen a road patched up for the visit of the State Governor, only to wash away with the first rains, knows how that particular brand of eye-service works!
Only when our rulers respond to our own demands will there be genuine change.  But as long as we contract out the job of making those demands to the President of the United States of America, well, I guess our rulers will know where they need to direct their eye service.

Ayo I invite you to follow me on Twitter @naijama
On 31 May 2013, at 07:10, ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com wrote:

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. From: Tope Olaiya <estyyolly@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 04:16:28 -0700 (PDT) To: ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com<ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com> ReplyTo: Tope Olaiya <estyyolly@yahoo.com> Subject: OBAMA'S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA
OBAMA'S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA AYO OLUKOTUN Barring an unlikely politically negotiated detour, United States President, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, will not visit Nigeria on their forthcoming African tour, billed to take them to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3.The White House announced last week the exclusion of Nigeria from Obama's African itinerary as a way of delivering a strong message to the country's rulers on their slack, anti corruption policy and poor human rights record. Subsequent reports on the matter, however, indicate that Nigeria's ambassador to the United States, Professor Ade Adefuye, is exploring the possibility of getting the United States to change its mind by reinserting Nigeria on the list of countries to
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