WHERE IS NIGERIA S BARACK OBAMA

Posted At : November 4, 2008 10:45 PM | Posted By : Dupe Olorunjo
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Today I recall a day early in January when I was in a discussion with some of my colleagues in the office. Everyone was unilateral and emphatic in their agreement that Obama could never win the presidential ticket he was seeking. It is not possible they said. He is a black man with an African father; a minority! It can never happen. Mine was a lone voice. Do not underestimate the power of possibilities, I said.

In my whole life I have never followed a campaign like I followed this one. I watched him, I listened to every speech and I was not surprised when he won the democratic ticket over Hillary Clinton.

And today I am not surprised that he is Americas 44th President with a landslide victory at the polls. He needed 270 electoral votes and he got 338. The crowds continued to swell at his acceptance speech. Tears and cheers flowed. A defining moment indeed.

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I also believed he would win. He was organized and focus. And you know what, he didn't gravitate towards the god-fathers, but rode on the back of popular opinions.

At this time in Nigeria, it is time we had someone like an Obama, who wouldn't depend on the vultures of PDP but would create a truly grass-root movement and sweep out this comatose government out of power in 2011. If Obama can do it in America, it can be done in Nigeria. Oshiomole did it in Edo.

Nigeria must be free!
# Posted By Supo Kekere-ekun | 12/3/08 4:42 AM
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