The result, a booming economy and an excellent foreign policy that met the expectation of the Americans. Bill Clinton to the surprise of his destructors defeated Senator Bob Dole the man the Republicans pinned their hope of the White House on at the end of his four years term. Today, I see a big similarity in what is happening to President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo and what happened to Bill Clinton in his first two years in office as enumerated above. Like Bill Clinton, Obasanjo s election came at a time Nigerians were experiencing economic times. The economy is comatose.
Infrastructures are non- existent.
There is division along ethnic and religious lines and the entire nation pinned their hope of economic and social survival on his government. In fact, expectations and hopes of Nigerians on Obasanjo is not only high but also electric. Just like the Americans of Bill Clinton, Nigerians are so much in a hurry for their expectations to be met that they are willing to believe that the government has failed, if the expectations are not met in just only 16 months of Obasanjo s regime. Like Clinton, Obasanjo enjoyed the mandate of over 65 percent of Nigerians and his approval rating was in excess of 75 percent after his first six months in office. But today the bubble seems to have burst just like it happened to Bill Clinton.