PRESIDENT BUHARI GOES TO WASHINGTON, NO GAY NIGERIAN IN HIS DELEGATION?

Icheoku says with cap in hand and a lengthy wish list in tow, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari jets out to Washington DC at the invitation of American President Barack Obama on Monday July 20, 2015 for a three day summit with the American government. After listening through President Muhammadu Buhari's lengthy beggarly sermons of what he would like the Americans to help him achieve for Nigerians, atypical Americans will then like to know what is in it for them? What are they getting for all the things they will do for PMB and his Nigeria? What is the bargain for consideration? 

Oil is becoming an unwanted polluting thing of yesterday which nobody, including the Americans, wants any longer? There is no regional conflict affecting America's interest within the West African sub-Saharan region to ask for Nigeria's help? Sending Nigerian soldiers to help out with ISIS in Middle East is not an option either since Nigeria is inundated with their own fight against Boko Haram? So Icheoku asks what would be the bargain or consideration to induce the Americans to act on what PMB brings along to Washington DC? That then leaves only one possible thing, one thing only that the Americans most probably would ask of the Muhammadu Buhari's government as a quid pro quo for any help and assistance they will render to Nigeria. It is a king's ransom and it is going to be like the Greece bailout term - take it or leave it. It is the reversal of Nigeria's anti-gay marriage law. Icheoku says this is the billion dollar trade America will ask of President Muhammadu Buhari in exchange of their assistance. Icheoku is emphatic that the successful outcome of this trip to Washington will be literally SOLELY predicated on his acceptance of gays right to freely  mix and mingle and of course marry in Nigeria without more, period.

Unfortunately it will be a near impossible undertaking for PMB to accept to take, judging by the near universal cultural rejection of sodomy throughout Nigeria diverse ethnic groupings. But a proactively thinking PMB should have seen this request or rather demand coming and adequately prepared for it. At least have a response that will give the Americans some assurance that all their hope of pushing a gay agenda in Nigeria are not entirely lost. PMB would do this convincingly by at least adding a gay Nigerian as a member of his delegation to Washington DC, even if it means finding someone acting gay to fill the role and present the image that gays are not yet extinct in Nigeria. A person who would assure the Americans that things are being done to reverse the anti-gay law in Nigeria, using himself being in the delegation as a testament that PMB is not entirely personally conflicted with the idea of men doing men etc.  A role which the Senate President Saraki would have been well suited to play if the rumor is true that he likes little boys; except that the president is still keeping him in the cold? Thereafter, PMB will personally give his words that where the law could not be reversed because of cultural peculiarities of Nigerians, his government will not enforce the law in the same manner the Obama administration refused to enforce the DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) but did not expressly reverse it. 

This is the name of the game and this is how it is played played in international wheeling and dealing as every nation wants to mile every relationship exchanges. It is diplomacy 101 and nations earn their peeps through tough bargains as there is no sympathy in the juggle of world economy; only respectfully earned and  deserved returns are permitted. So if PMB is seriously desirous and in need of assistance from the Americans, he must be prepared to show the Americans the proverbial money. Like the American will say, 'show me the money;' only that in this instant it will be 'show me the reversed anti-gay marriage law in Nigeria.  Anyway, Icheoku wishes the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's delegation to Washington DC a safe and successful trip. May their lips not quiver faced with the Americans and may they only say what the Americans want to hear and in return bring back all the goodies from Washington DC as Nigeria could use quite a lot of them. God's speed. Salute.