‘They have insatiable taste for women and beautiful ones at that! - Ben Bruce compares Donald Trump to Obansanjo
‘Like Trump
Like Obasanjo
On the morning of Saturday the
20th of February, 2016, I was having breakfast at Eko Hotel with a friend of
mine, Reno Omokri and one of the top Democratic Party strategists in the US and
an argument ensued. Omokri said Trump would go all the way while the American
said he was not going anywhere.
I joined the conversation by saying that Trump
is a phenomenon and no one knows how far he will go.
Today, I sit here writing this
piece pleasantly stunned that what the mainstream media, what the establishment
and what the powers that be said could never happen has happened due to this
phenomenal man's belief in himself when others did not believe in hm.
I have met Donald Trump one on
one before and what I clearly remember about him is that he is a White and
younger version of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The two of them can be brash and
outspoken but they always seem to come out on top by some sort of divine
arrangement that makes whatever they do turn out for the best even if it began
with controversy.
More similarities between the duo
is that they both undeniably have an insatiable taste for women and beautiful
ones at that!
Then again, they are both men who
have succeeded in business and, even though they were political outsiders, they
extended their business success to politics.
And even though there is a lot of
anxiety in the Black world and especially Nigeria, I believe that a Trump
Presidency would be better for Africa and Nigeria than a Hillary
administration.
For one, Boko Haram are now
afraid. Very afraid! This is a man that is not afraid to use the word radical
Islamic terror and to declare to all who care to listen that he will be their
nemesis.
Nigeria needs such a partner!
We are spending way too much of
our resources on fighting terrorists. We need a big strong hand to help us
fight them. A hand that will not be afraid to sell us weapons and will not make
us grovel before it is willing to help us destroy our enemies who want to
destroy us.
But secondly and very
importantly, Nigeria is an oil producing nation and though I believe that it is
what is between the ears of our people that will make this nation great, we
still need foreign exchange and Hillary's plans for alternative energy was not
going to see the price of oil go up anytime soon.
But Trump won in Texas because
the oil industry knows that they have a friend in him, and any friend of Texas
big oil is a friend of Nigeria.
And forget about all that talk
about immigration reform. Trump will not stop Nigerians from entering the US.
The US needs Nigerians more than Nigerians need the US.
Without Nigerian healthcare
professionals, the US health industry would collapse overnight. Neither Trump
or Hillary wanted that.
Trump's rhetoric was directed
more at Mexican immigrants because of the immediate threat posed to the US by
illegal immigration from Mexico.
Having said that, let me add that
the last similarity between Trump and former President Obasanjo is that they
both look not very intelligent, but their looks betray their vast knowledge and
deep wisdom. You meet them and size them up by their looks and end up
underestimating them.
But when they reach into their
reptilian brain and come out with strategies it becomes too late to do what you
should have done.
I am glad that Trump won and I
cannot wait to see how he will change the world positively.
But one thing is clear, any
politician who underestimates the role of social media in the battle to win the
hearts and minds of the people is a politician that is going the way of the
dinosaurs.
Social media and particularly
Twitter was the weapon Trump used to fight the mainstream media. Social media
is the ultimate form of democracy in that it gives the underdog a vehicle to
amplify his or her voice against a biased media that wants to suppress it.
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