When
Governor Willie Obiano took over the leadership of the All Progressive
Grand Alliance (APGA) as the Chairman BoT and National Leader, on December 17
last year, he quoted the Italian Renaissance man, Michelangelo, to his
fellow party men and women. In a powerful emotional voice, Obiano said;
“the greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and
we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” The tremendous
resurgence of APGA since this ambitious statement has since shown that
Governor Obiano knew exactly what he was saying.
Looking
for a fitting, epigrammatic phrase on which to hang former US
President, Bill Clinton’s campaign against George H.W Bush in 1992,
James Carville came up with the line “It’s the economy, stupid.” Aimed
at playing up the paramount importance of the economy in the heady
electioneering campaign of the time when the American economy was in
recession, the strategy did not only help in unseating the Bush, it took
an instant life of its own, mutating into similar phrases like – “it’s
is the deficit stupid,” “It’s the voters, stupid,” and so on. Looking at
where the All progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is coming from, what
immediately pops to mind runs along the line of, “It’s the leadership,
stupid.” Hopefully Obiano has stepped in to stem the tide.
