POLITICAL MATHEMATICS: If you want to fail, use your Calculator! Back in 2007/2008 in the heat of the struggle for the Democratic Party delegate votes to secure the Party’s ticket, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama all had their calculations. But each time there was a count, the delegate numbers never tallied. There must always be an excess! Why? In a particular scenario, Bill Clinton put a call through to Bill Richardson, the former Governor of New Mexico – a traditional ally who served in the Clinton Administration in the 90s. The politician in New Mexico maintained that he was yet to make up his mind. Clinton reason: ‘this is my long time ally, he will definitely give his delegate vote to my wife’ – so he locked him in as ‘plus 1’ in the delegate count. What an error! Barrack Obama, also in a desperate attempt to tally his potential delegate votes, put a call through to the New Mexico politician and his response was short and sharp: ‘I’m yet to decide. But you stand a good chance, don’t you? With a beaming smile turned giggling, Barrack quickly locked Bill Richardson in as a ‘plus 1’. Thus, in our Political Mathematics, a single Democratic Party Delegate Vote from New Mexico had suddenly become 2 – one for Hillary Clinton and one for Barrack Obama. Yet, Bill Richardson will only cast 1 vote at the Demo Primary! The answer lies here: Political Mathematics is not a science! Nor is it calculated with your digital calculator! The truth is that the New Mexico politician had decided and he was going to vote for Barrack Obama, but who openly hurts an old friend who had considered you worthy of a cabinet position just a while ago? On his own part, Bill Clinton got it wrong when he used his calculator rather than his mind. The Political Mathematics is NOT calculated using a calculator. It is a game of the mind fuelled by the interests of the individual players. It was the same interest that took Governor Babangida Aliyu to the Kano Governor’s Lodge in Abuja on Tuesday, November 16 as a member of the G7 ready to defect to APC but he came out of that building, in a rush, face laden with uncleared arguments, and he aimed for his car, yet as a G1 Governor. And in the interviews that follow, Governor Aliyu maintained he remains loyal to a dying PDP – another Political Mathematics backed by a Federal Interest. You are calculating with your calculator when you say the G7 defected to APC. Do the maths with your mind and that way, we can better strategize – not counting on fake numbers. Olu Majek.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:31:30 +0000
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