VLADIMIR PUTIN: DESTROYING RUSSIA WITH SIT TIGHT LEADERSHIP.

ICHEOKU says a successful constitutional amendment to elongate power notwithstanding, the fact of the matter is that nobody lives forever. Someday Tsar Vladimirovich Putinya will also go the way of all mortals and will make finding a someone to fill his shoes extremely difficult. He has created a huge gap in succession through his vice hold on power and when he is gone, it will be impossible to fill peacefully. 

How can just one man think that he alone knows what is best for Russia and that without Putin, Russia will no longer exists or go like Afghanistan or Somalia. What happens when he can no longer preside over Russia, either willingly or unwillingly, due to old age, incapacity or death or is his inevitable mortality not cross his mind? 

Any good leader just like any good parent should be preoccupied with what happens after their death than what is currently possible, otherwise what then is the use of all these extensions of power, aware that a day will come when such extensions cannot be possible or his power hold amenable to extension. What will happen then? Why has Vladimir Putin not deemed it necessary to begin grooming a successor after nearly 21 years in power. Bill Clinton was American president when Vladimir Putin first came to power in 1999 and four American presidents later, Vladimir Putin is still in power in Russia and now plans to stay indefinitely or 2032, whichever one comes first. ICHEOKU wonders whether he ever asks himself what will become of Russia when he dies or does he not plan to die someday? 

But he does not seem to care nor worry about the long term welfare of Russia, otherwise he would have seriously started thinking about his successor and working to have him or her enthroned while he san still help nurture him. Why would someone who claims to be of a civilization that is advanced enmesh himself in such prolonged power hold and you wonder what then distinguishes him from the rest of third world countries in Africa and other places where leaders perpetuate themselves in office. It is not a good resume for Russia or Vladimir Putin and it is about time it ended. 

It is not for love of Mother Russia that Vladimir Putin has stuck to power for so long and still continuing into the future; rather it is for love of Putin by Putin; a burning desire to remain the unchallenged leader of Russia, the modern day Tsar Putinya. It is not good; it is not healthy and it can only lead to a fractious third world country like Russia with so many people vying for power the day Putin dies or in no longer able to wield power. For a nuclear armed Russia, such scenario is rather better not contemplated as some of their many nuclear warheads might fall into the hands of terrorists and the result is what nobody wants to think about. 

ICHEOKU says for the interest of a functional Russia after Putin is gone, Dear President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, please reconsider your decision to remain the paramount ruler of Russia in perpetuity. If 2007 wasn't enough and 2015 wasn't enough, 2036 will also not be enough for your power hold. It is greedy; it is evident power lust and it is a foolish egotistic maniacal behavior. Why does Putin look down on Russians this so much that he has convinced himself that there is no other person in Russia who is good enough for Russia's presidency and leadership. But just in case he needs to be reminded, Vladimir Putin is still human and he will surely die someday. What happens then? For the greater good of Russia, Putin should please start grooming a successor now. What a joke.