Saturday, 18 May 2013
Dear President Obama, Goodluck Jonathan Must Be Invited To Washington! By Pius Adesanmi
Dear President Barack Obama: Greetings. On behalf of the good citizens of the District of Columbia, who, in their infinite wisdom, entrusted me with the Office of the Mayor, I am writing to draw your attention to an issue of urgent municipal importance. Although my aides here in the Mayor’s Office are yet to crosscheck things with Mr. Jay Carney, your Press Secretary, after he issued a curious statement today, I have decided to be proactive by reacting to that extremely disturbing statement.
Mr. President, it would seem that you have convened a prestigious summit between your esteemed self and four Heads of State from the continent of Africa. They have been invited to parley with you in the White House in order to explore avenues of strengthening democracy in Africa. According to the statement released by Mr. Carney, “President Obama looks forward to welcoming President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Joyce Banda of Malawi, and Prime Minister José Maria Pereira Neves of Cape Verde to the White House on Thursday, March 28.” The statement concludes that, “the visit of these four leaders underscores the strategic importance the President places on building partnerships and substantive engagement with sub-Saharan Africa, and our commitment to working with strong and emerging African democracies.”
Mr. President, this is obviously an unmistakable snub of the Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, who leads a country that prides herself as the giant of Africa. While we understand the fact that your administration needs to send a clear message of zero tolerance for corruption to the Nigerian President, who has acquired a reputation for running Africa’s most corruption-friendly government, we at the Washington City Hall would like to register our disagreement with your decision to exclude the Nigerians from next week’s parley in the strongest possible terms.
Mr. President, we believe that you have not been properly served by your advisers in this matter. We believe that the economic implications of excluding the Nigerians from this parley should have been painstakingly explained to you to help you reach an informed judgment. We believe that the economic wellbeing of a major American city should be more important to your administration than helping the people of one far-flung country in Africa deal with their corruption enabler of a president. At a time when most American city administrations are groaning under budget cuts, at a time when the ability of American cities to deliver basic services to residents is being streamlined to reflect the dire economic circumstances of the times, any opportunity for a massive injection of funds into any American city’s economy ought to be seized with both hands. Your administration is about to deny Washington DC one such fantastic opportunity through the hasty and wrong-headed exclusion of the Nigerian president from the forthcoming parley.
Mr. President, we believe that you are aware of the fact that the President of Nigeria does not travel light to foreign destinations. During meetings of the US Conference of Mayors, my brother Mayor Bloomberg of New York never fails to regale us with stories of the economic boom that New York City receives whenever the Nigerian president comes to town for UN functions. He and his wife are said to travel with a harem of presidential jets – some travel as advance delegations. The plane loads of raw cash and aides create an economic ripple effect. They stay in the best hotels, charter limousines, and spend days in shopping malls since they hardly ever attend the functions they came for.
Mr. President, you are perhaps aware of the fact that the 127th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union was hosted by our sister city, Québec City, Canada, from October 21-26, 2012. The word on the street is that the South Africans who arrived in Québec City thinking they had a huge delegation were humbled by the benumbing size of the Nigerian delegation. Almost five months after the event, I can tell you authoritatively, Mr. President, that Québec City, Canada, is still reaping the benefits of the economic boom created by the one-week presence of Nigerian parliamentarians in that city. Need one mention what the city of Dubai in the Middle East benefits from weekly injection of funds by Nigerian officials?
Mr. President, we urge you to seriously reconsider your decision to snub Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. It would be a great idea of you could even invite him ahead of the others so that he and his potentially large delegation could get to spend an extra week here in Washington. If he comes here with two or three jumbo jets, as is his wont, this translates to enormous parking fees for Washington Dulles Airport. He, his wife, and their aides are going to take over major hotels in the city and that would be a tremendous boost for our hospitality services. Our limo rental services are going to benefit immensely from the presence of a Nigerian delegation.
In addition, while Dr and Mrs. Jonathan spend time with you at the White House, two or three planeloads of aides are going to spend all that time in our shopping malls. Furthermore, virtually every member of the large delegation would take the opportunity to do a quick medical checkup. Since they have no medical insurance here, they would naturally be paying cash. Imagine, Mr. President, the possible cash inflow to our medical system in these austere times. We understand that Nigerian officials are fond of German hospitals. This could be an opportunity to showcase the superiority of American medical services to these petro-wealthy Africans.
Mr. President, I could go on and on with details of the economic benefits of having the Nigerians here. Please allow me to say, Mr. President, that for the sake of the economy of Washington, DC, the Nigerian president deserves to be pardoned for pardoning corruption. He is of more economic value to us here than the four African presidents you are hosting combined. I therefore look forward to being able to host him and his lovely wife here at City Hall after their White House event.
Yours sincerely,
John-Smith Budweiser
Mayor of the District of Columbia
This is unacceptable
My learned friend and mayor, you think you can wake up any day and write what you want to? Well my blame goes to Jonathan and his recent types who 've taken up leadership in Nigeria at all levels and still dont want to adopt the principles of management.
If Obj was to be in office, you won't try this. Else you would be enlisted in the next plane crash in this country. But there you are, Jonathan is a gentle man hence, anyone could ridicule him.
As for your Obama, i would rather get Nigerians fast to make sure he never meets our president before he infects him with his blood thirsty nature. killing innocent babes in the name of abortion and making sure there is never peace in the easth, Africa and even far asia.
brilliant satire.it gives me
brilliant satire.it gives me assurance that Achebe is survived.
Shut up and go fuck yourself.
Shut up and go fuck yourself. Arsehole.
mind d engine not d body
weda d mayor's name is 'i go dye', dady showki or lagbaja, it doesn't mata. get d mssg he is passing across...dis is a wel written piece n wil pass 4 a test on satire in literature bt its funny hw som ppl ar out to decode/detect errors instead of undastandin d core mssg d author is bringin out. y'all know satire by its name n nt what it stans 4 das y ur lookin for correctness of details....its lyk u got an f9 in literature?
what is this thing about professor?????? -2
YEAH!!! i am a professor of Japanese Language...oya! APPLAUSE!!! Listen...i) anybody can teach african history to white people. ii) african literature and Eng. 2927???...purlease!!! just like a typical nigerian product, he was rated average of 2.5 on "rate your professor". in nigeria, he is a fierce lion of a writer, a professor. my sophomore students can string up sentences with far better clarity that some bullshit write-up. excuse me, am going to go vomit and get this whole toxic shit out of my system!!! God save us from mediocrity.
what is this thing about professor??????
so because someone is a professor of english, they are now a real professor? what would you call a real professor with substance? what good will a professor of english do in society except write and tell us bullshit cacamimi stories under pretense of rigorous objective research. personally speaking, critical thinking skills are singularly far more substantive than just writing. professor my nyansh!!! nigerians and mediocrity...we have been bamboozled and hood winkled to the nth degree that we glorify anything that has 'professor' attached to it.
Sadly, Pius, ...the people
Sadly, Pius, ...the people for whom you daily write and fight have neither a basic understanding of the significance of the fight nor a modicum of appreciation for intellectual discourse as represented in your frequent critics . No,...not in the very least! They do not even recognize a satire when visited with one so elegantly written. Blame them not. Their minds have been degraded and rendered impotent by years of abuse, neglect and misrule. I sometimes find myself wondering if the problem with Nigeria is that of poor leadership or simply a case of horrible citizenry. I have come to believe that a government may indeed be forced on a people, but ultimately the people determine the character of their government. It must be understood that the circumstance that fosters and engenders a continuous string of persistently depraved leaders in any nation, can only emanate from the putrid bowels of poor followership!
@tundemash u have
Changed ur name to wahala, anyhow monkey change him colour na still monkey him be...ahmadu Ali called u and ur foolish yoruba people ungratefull idiots and u all wanted to derobe the good man of wisdom, see ur people now adding insults to ur unborn generation see brother so called most educated doesn't know slave trade has ended still licking ass in yankee na woo
You read all the responses to
You read all the responses to this post and you begin to understand why Nigeria is the way it is and why for the foreseeable future we'll be chasing shadows.
Yeah, Nigeria is finished because Obasanjo and his Yoruba kinsmen are experts in chasing shadows. Awolowo was the first expert. Adedibu and Obasanjo followed in awo’s footsteps.
And the typical Naija response to anything said about the way we are is to point fingers and try and show that there is someone out there much worse. Sad. So because the US is corrupt it makes it fine for Nigeria to be corrupt.
NO! Because Ayoka Adebayo, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Segun Oni, Teslim Folarin, and Ayodele Fayose were murderers does not make it right that your father becomes a murderer or that the killers of Bola Ige and Funsho Williams should be pronounced as saints. You got it now? Because you failed to prosecute Olusegun Obasanjo does not mean that killers are not prosecuted in USA.
You and him got a lot of
You and him got a lot of growing up to do, just like Olusegun Obasango of Yoruba land. There is this inferiority complex with you people from that part of the country. Satire or no satire, we did not read the name of the current Lagos governor or the name of Mandela. Rather we read "John-Smith Budweiser
Mayor of the District of Columbia". We read President Obama of the United States. He supplicated to his heroes and masters for help because of his sense of helplessness that grew out of his inferiority complex.
You read all the responses to
You read all the responses to this post and you begin to understand why Nigeria is the way it is and why for the foreseeable future we'll be chasing shadows. We have all the educational degrees in the world but lack the ability or understanding to apply what what we crammed when it comes down to it. People simply cannot interpret this for what it is... A satire. Can you imagine someone enlightened enough to use the internet trying to prove that John-Smith Budweiser is not the Mayor of the District of Columbia?!!! He thinks he's just had a Christopher Columbus moment.SMH
And the typical Naija response to anything said about the way we are is to point fingers and try and show that there is someone out there much worse. Sad. So because the US is corrupt it makes it fine for Nigeria to be corrupt. Does it change the fact that anyone speaking about the corruption in Nigeria is merely speaking the truth?
Grow up guys
Some of you guys should grow up and get a sense of humour. Have you ever heard of jest? Political satire? Irony?
The letter is obviously a joke. But it is rooted in the tragedy we find ourselves in.
...SO WE ARE NOW THE US' BITCH...A US INVITE MAKES US CREDIBLE??
this is some crazy write-up shit. yellow belly bastards. limp dick morons who want to keep sucking on american tits. when will you motherfuckers grow up. spineless jelly fish that flows with the stream. an invite from obama is now the measure of a president's caliber. OBAMA'S STOOGE, HIS LAP DOG...HE PETS AND FEEDS YOU YOU REMNANTS FROM HIS TABLE. no wonder we have been under their thumbs and probably shall continue to be. american ass kissers. BOOTY LICKERS!!! when will you be a man about your country instead of writing your fucking satire from the comfort of the us. live the life before you write about it. how would you know about the daily struggles to write about when you have no experienced it. ishi nmebi. i wonder who you report to over there? american or canadians? every whore has a price.
Owembe people! Why not write
Owembe people! Why not write Obama to rescue from the murderous hands of the thugs in yoruba land.
You always crying, "Obama, please save us. America please save my people from this or that person".
What of the deadly killers in your Yoruba homes? When will you seek for America's help in digging out the killers of Bola Ige?
Who murdered Bola Ige? Was it Jonathan or Obasanjo?
Who murdered Funsho Williams? Was it Jonathan or Obasanjo?
Who rigged the elections in ekiti election rerun? Was it Jonathan or Obasanjo?
Who murdered more than 500 innocent soul in Anambara to impose Uba? Was it Jonathan or Obasanjo? Who raised Odi to the ground?
You people think you have gotten away with your mayhem and destruction of Nigeria.
Think again, because from now unto next 100 years, you must pay. Your children and grandchildren must pay with their blood.
This Professor will not cease
This Professor will not cease to amaze me. Rather than join heads with other intellectuals to find a solution to the problems, all he does it to write articles. How does this affect the price of garri in the market? I forgot! You don't take garri where you are. Nigeria is messed and as interesting and developed Canada is, you still yearn to come back home. But, you can't. Nigeria is messed! And you've made money there, but a Second class citizen will forever be a Second class citizen. We need solutions oga. I'm tired well articulated rubbish. I still read one last week on Premium times. How does that help us?
Since Obasanjo came and
Since Obasanjo came and destroyed Nigeria, his kinsmen have been restless trying to deny him. They first said that Obasanjo is not Yoruba. Now, they are saying that he was anti-Yoruba. But they will never write an article to demand for his prosecution for the atrocities and genocides he committed. Lately, Jonathan has been their whipping boy as they rain curses on him. They are not asking for the heads of the killers of Lateef Salako, Tunji Omojola, and Ayo Daramola because they know the implications of rooting out so many murderers in high places in their homes.
I hardly ever read this semi
I hardly ever read this semi fulani-man beyond the first para-just a waste of time glancing through the rubbish he enough pens for Bakare and Buhari-A man is granted pardon and some insane regionalist are saying No-where are the crooks who stole our 55 trillion naira worth of oil revenue-from the SS? Yeye clowns who think they can harass ppl from the SS into submitting to their internal colonization agenda-if I had my way I would have asked every settler out of the Niger Delta-these clowns think we are fools-Franklin Roosevelt pardoned 3,687 crooks-which included murderers-most of them WHITES-and a man whose father died waiting for his retirement benefit is saying Jonathan should be summoned to the white house-4 questioning-these are neo colonialist stooges like Mobotu-who sold his ppl cheap to the imperialist powers-Nigeria was without light b4 Jonathan took over-with 17b for light gone into the pocket of the tripod-did any ijaw man benefit from it?
@ Prof. Pius : Stop Dressing Chimps !
Your premise is beyond the comprehension capacity of slimy creek crooks, one even says you're spreading falsehood by signing the letter as "John-Smith Budweiser". That's their level, and my reason for: "Aborigine Education is Contaminated Education". Thugs like Deri and his Crumb-Catchers will throw multiple tantrum of abuses at you with their regional jingoism. The collateral damages of Dumbo's Blockbuster Blunder include Bill Gates cancelling a Healthcare-oriented visit to Naija, Obama's unusual scolding of 9ja/cancellation of visit, The EU threatening sanctions, International isolations, etc. Yet, gutter-dwelling fools write as if we're an Island Nation. Thugs 4-crumbs!
We need to collab and write them a musical: "Circus of Clowns" - the story of Aborigine "Clown Prince" trying to trap "The Flying Dwarf" using a bottle of Ogogoro as bait. Meanwhile, the midget is plotting a Coup to occupy the prince's throne using Harry Porter brooms ...funny story indeed, our Aborigines!
A GOAT GAVE BIRTH TO A DOG!
DERI,OTILE,SUMANGURU,and the rest of monetary ethnists can condemn America but their tribal lord Dr. Mountain of Disorder, can neither condemn nor scorn America because they (Americans) have his crimes dozier since he was a deputy Governor up to the time he was ethno-religiously rigged into Aso Rock to assume the leadership of a criminals gang. We in the North refuse to support this dummy because we know he could not be a good leader. Now even those that voted him are regretting it.
Good, good
Dear President Obama, there are a lot of Yoruba thugs, murderers, and thieves that must be invited to Washington.
The Ekiti grand mother with a Christian conscience, Ayoka Adebayo, should be invited to explain her part in rigging election in Ekiti.
Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the former governor of Osun, should be invited to explain his comment that AK47s and army uniforms should be given to Yoruba thugs to kill Yoruba voters who wanted to participate in Ekiti re-run election.
Segun Oni, the former governor of ekiti, had a dungeon in governors mansion. He used the dungeon to torture and kill journalists. Invite him to Washington.
Teslim Folarin, a sitting Yoruba senator who murdered another Yoruba.
Ayodele Fayose, the former ekiti governor who murdered many Yoruba.
The killers of Bola Ige, Funsho Williams, and others should be invited.
Olusegun Obasanjo, the mother of all thieves, all murderers, .
Well said.
Exactly What Governing is All About in Nigeria
This article to me has perfectly described the mindset of all our leaders and top officials. Corruption and greed are inborn in Nigerians, passed down our throats via our mother’s breast milk. Don't forget that some of these people did not have shoes as kids and that they are out to show others and the world how they have been "blessed", such that they can now buy jets and shop at such malls that are not available in their country, can go for medical check-ups in well equipped hospitals abroad. Nigeria is a country where blessing is measured in stolen money.
gibberish
I thought u had something reasonable to say, reading your write up was a waste of my time. You silly.
investment
THIS ARTICLE HAS SAID IT ALL. INVITING NIGERIAN PRESIDENT TO SPEND A NIGHT IN ZIMBABWE CAN XHANGE THE LIFE OF THE ZIMBABWEAN POSITIVELY FOR ONE YEAR. WITH ALL THESE EXTRAVAGANT SPENDING, OTUOKE INDIGIENE ARE STILL LIVING BELOW $0.5/DAY., NOT TO TALK OF OTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY.
DERI, I HOPE YOU WILL BE PART OF THE CONVOY THAT WILL BE GOING WITH DUMBO. COME 2015, YOU SHALL ALL BE FLUSHED TO THE SUCKAWAY. ONYIOCHI.
I dey lafu
Egbon Pius u don come again! I dey lafu o!
Dear President Obama, there
Dear President Obama, there are a lot of Yoruba thugs, murderers, and thieves that must invited to Washington.
The Ekiti grand mother with a Christian conscience, Ayoka Adebayo, should be invited to explain her part in rigging election in Ekiti
Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the former governor of Osun, should be invited to explain his comment that AK47s and army uniforms should be given to Yoruba thugs to kill Yoruba voters who wanted to participate in Ekiti re-run election.
Segun Oni, the former governor of ekiti, had a dungeon in governors mansion. He used the dungeon to torture and kill journalists. Invite him to Washington.
Teslim Folarin, a sitting Yoruba senator who murdered another Yoruba.
Ayodele Fayose, the former ekiti governor who murdered many Yoruba.
The killers of Bola Ige, Funsho Williams, and others should be invited.
Olusegun Obasanjo, the mother of all thieves, all murderers, and all corrupt officials, the inventor of corruption, should be invited
Pius, I know you can read & write but please read about the sins
Pius, I know you can read & write but please read about the sins of the US in Iraq, Ruwanda, Slavery, Libya, Slavery in africa, Vietnam, Korea, Invasion of Panama, support for Botha's aparthied govt in South africa, etc., Pius u mean say you no no all these? How brainwashed have u become? So america is your standard? I dey sorry for you & your generation. I know you have already lost Illorin but it should not be permanent in your lives. Go for deliverance at mount Kilmanjaro or come to River Ethiope so we go use Sapele water wash your head. We're expecting you to come for treatment.
Verily verily I say unto you, Nigeria is not a country but a continent.
Long live the United Republic of the SS&SE
GOAT WEY FOLLOW DOG GO CHOP SHIT
Obama did not invite dis idiot called Jona becos him go invest with him corruption disease abi una don forget say goat wey follow dog waka go chop shit take a good look at people around Jona how corruption dey run through there blood Obama please no associate with Jona if you no want to lose your respect I don talk my ownooo.
RE:Dear President Obama, Goodluck Jonathan Must Be Invited To Wa
THIS REPORT IS NOT TOO TRUE.THE NAME OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA IS Steve Benjamin.however the report is rich in its ironical positioning of Mr Bastard called I have no shoes.the content is true only the name of the mayor was not correct.
to hell with america
obama is slave to the white man. yeye dey smell
Who Cares about using Tails to wag the Dog?
Pope Pius, FYI, I've lived in the Wash DC metro since 1985 till present and not once did any news about Africa made it to the headlines except the by-lines and fine-prints on Free South Africa (Nelson Mandela) movements or Gadhafi tantrums. In fact, I never heard of your story about Mr. Obama's invite to the so-called 4 African HoS until you mention it here. So, who cares if the Headmaster invites 4 primary school-form-one-boys to the podium to "send a message" to the big-boys at the back of the class? Give me a break and grow up, Pius! You only embarrass yourself with your small mind, pleading for another President to wag yours. No wonder Africans don’t get any respect. Tsk!

