However, under Fukuda, who is an old establishment-oriented politician, the LDP
gerontocrats, notably two former nationalist Prime Ministers Yasuhiro Nakasone and Yoshiro Mori, have gained power.
The seven
gerontocrats are now in high spirits in the run-up to the critical decision on revising the tax system for the next fiscal year.
The government routinely reviews manuscipts by former officials in order to protect classified information; according to Thomas DeFrank, Baker's co-author, the bureau's criticisms of the book's chapter on China "were aimed less at guarding national security than at protecting the feelings of Beijing's hypersensitive
gerontocrats." Baker ignored the bureau's objections to the passages listed below.
The
gerontocrats who sat in the Kremlin before Gorbachev, while happy to grab whatever fell into their laps, were no -great adventurers.
People are fleeing the nonsense, the absurdity, the sexual and cultural repression, the contempt for people displayed by the
gerontocrats who run the country.
Power is never served a la carte; and if we must take hold of the reins of political power over Nigeria, the best of our generation - in wealth, political sagacity, education, enterprise, understanding of foreign policy, grassroots engagement, strategic communication and social impact/investment - from all the six geo-political zones must come together, genuinely unite for a common purpose, form a political party, choose one candidate, queue behind her or him and be ready to compromise and make sacrifices with a fixed gaze on one goal that unites us, which must not simply be to unseat the
gerontocrats but to restore the glory of a nation, so rich yet so poor, because we have never realised that the greatest impediment to our progress is the INEFFICIENCY OF LEADERSHIP.
