FELLOW L-ERS, NIGERIA HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF DEBATE AROUND THE WORLD FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS OR SO, ON ITS MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND HOW IT SYSTEMATICALLY ROBBED-OFF THE NIGERIAN POPULACE. ON SATURDAY THE 29TH OF MAY 1999 AT EXACTLY 11:11am NIGERIAN TIME GENERAL OLUSEGUN OBASANJO WAS SWORN-IN AS NIGERIA'S DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT.GEN.OLUSEGUN OBASANJO WHO WILLFULLY RETURNED NIGERIA TO CIVILIAN RULE SOME 20YEARS AGO( AS A MILITARY HEAD OF STATE THEN)A RETIRED SOLDIER AND A MUCH RESPECTED ELDER AND FARMER, OBASANJO IS NIGERIA'S HOPE INTO THE FUTURE. THE CITIZENS OF AFRICA'S MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY EXPECT OBASANJO NOT ONLY TO DELIVER BUT RECOVER ALL THE ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH OF IT'S MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND RESTORE HOPE AND CONFIDENCE OF THE WORLD TO NIGERIA AND NIGERIANS. WILL HE DELIVER ? AND HOW SOON ? IS THE QUESTION. WHILE SPEAKING TO HIS FELLOW COUNTRY MEN AND INDEED THE WORLD AT THE EAGLE SQUARE IN ABUJA(NOW PRESIDENT OBASANJO)PROMISED THE WORLD THAT HE WOULD HANDLE THE MANTLE OF POWER TO THE DESIRE OF HIS ELECTORATE, HE QUICKLY ADDED THAT WIPING OUT WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION AND BRING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT TO NIGERIA WILL NOT BE AN EASY TASK, HOWEVER HE IS PREPARED FOR THE UPHILL BATTLE. IT WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO NOTE THAT WHEN OBASANJO WAS HANDING OVER POWER SOME 20YEARS AGO, THE PARADE COMMANDER THEN LT.COL. ABUBAKAR IS NOW HEAD OF STATE HANDING OVER POWER TO ELECTED PRESIDENT OBASANJO( CO-INCIDENCE OR DESIGN?) GEN. ABUBAKAR, MUCH AS HE IS RESPECTED BY THE WORLD FOR HAVING LED NIGERIA THROUGH A SUCCESFUL TRANSITION, NIGERIANS STILL POINT A FINGER AT HIM FOR NOT BRINGING THE ABACHA CLAN TO BOOK PARTICULARLY ABACHA'S KILLING AGENTS. WILL OBASANJO PROSECUTE THEM? NIGERIA AND NIGERIANS TAKE NOTE FOR AFRICA AND THE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU WITH KEEN INTEREST! WISHING YOU WELL IN YOUR NEW FOUND DEMOCRACY. HARONA DRAMMEH FROM NIGERIA. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------