Remember Billy Carter and “Billy Beer”? Roger Clinton who had a proclivity for scrapes? Well they have nothing on embarrassment compared to Malik Obama. Malik was the best man at the President’s wedding and the President was the best man at the first of Malik’s 12 weddings.
Via Daily Mail:
For the briefest moment, Malik Obama’s eyes reflect resentment through the lenses of his metal- framed glasses.
He is fed up with people criticising him for trying to cash in on his younger half-brother’s famous name. ‘It’s also my name and my birthright. Let’s not forget that I was born before him,’ he says.
Barack may have made history as the first black President of the United States, but he is not, Malik suggests, the only member of the family destined for greatness.
For it was drummed into Malik, from a very early age, that he was special and therefore expected to make his mark in this world.
‘My father instilled that in all of us,’ he says. ‘He used to say, “No matter what, you are the very best, because I’m from the best stock. Always keep that in your mind.”
‘And, to be honest, sometimes the only thing that has kept me going was the fact that I’m an Obama; therefore I am somebody.’
Last week, the 54-year-old was forced to fall back on this restorative mantra after suffering a crushing defeat in his bid for political power in Kenya.
He stood as an independent candidate for the governorship of Siaya County in the national elections.
As if that humiliating public drubbing wasn’t enough to contend with, Malik – a practising Muslim – also faces allegations that he is a wife-beater and a philanderer who seduced 17-year-old Sheila Anyango with sweet words and a gift of £24, then made her his 12th wife when she was under the age of consent.
She has said: ‘Marrying him [three years ago] has been the biggest mistake of my life. He beats me, but mostly he’s just nasty and quarrelsome.’ She is not the first spouse to accuse him of abuse.