President Goodluck Jonathan has missed being the
sun of the nation's life and that of the pit of
degradation, called the Niger Delta. Everlasting night
has settled upon Nigeria, spurred by moral
bankruptcy and the clueless chaos of his governance.
Nigerians have grown accustom to the deafening cacophonies
of missing billions in the oil sector and the NNPC accounts,
pension fund looting, oil bunkering, abandoned projects,
devaluation of the nation's currency, spilling of innocent blood
by the nihilist Boko haram militias etc. Most of all, mega-
corruption and the government's inability to tame the
bloodcurdling insurgents Boko Haram has been President
Jonathan's undoing.
He could not use his "Omnipotent Government" to suppress
the vices because he is a beneficiary of the self-inflicted
crises. President Jonathan's government has been a major
source of mischief and disaster ever witnessed in Nigeria.
Granted that the worst evils which mankind ever had to
endure were inflicted by governments in human history, but
there come a time the people strive for change, and the time
is now.
The above statement was echoed - not exactly the same - by
no less a personage than the fierce and fire spitting Catholic
Priest Rev. Ejike Mbaka. The iron cast Priest obviously
ventilated Ludwig Von Mises, the Austrian School economist,
sociologist, and classical liberal who became prominent for
his work in praxeology, a deductive study of human choice
and action. "There is no more dangerous menace to
civilisation than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile
men", Von said.
Rev. Mbaka hits the bull's eye when he told President
Jonathan the stark truth he hates to hear: "What is the fate
of our children? Tears fill my eyes when I see our young
graduates hoping and walking our streets. What is the
meaning of kidnapping? Kidnapping is the grandson of
unemployment. Boko Haram is a great grand child of the
same unemployment, mass looting, and poor governance".
"President Jonathan cannot lead Nigeria. As things stand
right now, from the oracle of the Holy Spirit, Jonathan should
honourably resign quietly and let Nigeria be. The destiny of
Nigeria is greater than Goodluck Jonathan. The Goodluck in
Jonathan has become a bad luck to Nigerians. Whatever
brought him in should send him back and let Nigeria be.
By this time in few months to come, many are going to lose
their jobs and there is no alternative"
"During election, Jonathan will answer Azikiwe, Ebele and
become an Igbo man and after election, the Ebele, the Azikiwe
and Goodluck will vanish from his identity. Who is fooling who
actually? Look at our federal roads, we are not even asking
for new ones, roads built by Buhari and Babangidas — the so
called Hausa people— cannot be maintained. Follow Enugu
here to Onitsha, children born some years ago do not know
that there was a lane along the other side of Isiagwu and we
are all saying continue. The continuity of Jonathan means
disaster to Nigeria".
"When there is no road, no power, all this fake promises…
where is the power? That Onitsha Bridge, has it now been
built? No. After 6 years, and Goodluck has what it takes to do
whatever. He surrounded himself with hooligans. By the time
he comes down, he won’t have anybody to work with. He
played himself into the hands of hooligans.
My interest is about the wellness of this country. Nigeria must
survive. What we are passing through is by the help of God.
The same God who saved us from Ebola will save us from this
bad luck season (shouts of AMEN from the congregation)".
"Look at it, there was a time there was an argument about
pension fund – such billions. Who is talking about it now?
Billions and we were hearing it… from excess crude oil money,
where is the impact of the excess crude oil money? Now from
oil boom, it has met a bad luck; it’s now oil doom. If my
father will be my leader and my siblings will all die, let a
stranger be my leader and let my family be", Rev. Mbaka said.
I quoted the Catholic Priest at great length because of his
religious standing, his following, his geopolitical firmament
and the ethno-religious sentiments that have dampened
Nigeria political growth. Political leaders who failed to fulfil
electoral promises to the electorate deliberately appeal or
exploit ethnocentric and religious sentiments of their selfish
gains in sections of the country. No Nigerian leader has
gained popularity through divisive politicking, ethno-religious
grandstanding than President Goodluck Jonathan. Then what
is government if it is not to promote human happiness and
welfare?
All the blemishes plaguing this administration came as a
result of the parasitic sycophants who give the president a
halo of false glory and are Hell bent on feasting dangerously
on the nation's easy oil wealth. The reason, lamentably, is
that Mr Jonathan didn't attain ideological maturation before
he found himself in the corridors of power. He is being goaded
on by dint of virtual Providence and veritable Luck. Minds
more developed and ideologically balanced have proved that
one of the greatest bequests to modern civilisation and
governance is not entirely humility, but a great deal of granite
hardness, as the need arises to trample on closest friends
who stand in the way of the masses.
With one stroke of abhorrence for corruption, President
Jonathan could have transformed Nigeria. In President
Jonathan's administration, Nigerians have lost one of the
nation's supposed great educationist whose products we have
not yet found in our time their fullest use, to corruption! He
missed the chance to wear the cap described in Mein Kampf,
The Struggle Of My Life:
"From millions of men, one man must step forward who with
apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering
idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for
their sole correctness, until the shifting waves of a free
thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in
faith and will". World-historical men - the Heroes of an epoch
- must therefore be recognised as its clear-sighted ones, their
deeds, their worlds are the best of their time.
You can now gauge why President Goodluck Jonathan
government is besotted by treachery, overwhelmed by violence
visited on it by the Boko Haram, drown in blood and will go
up in flames in an orgy of self-willed annihilation which will
answer some terrible longing question in the minds of Nigeria.
The President who ought to be a man of staggering political
genius, an incredible reformer by the reason of his education
and experience has yielded to crass opportunism and mega-
corruption.
How Mr President fell madly in love with corruption and
brought himself firmly in touch with mediocrity is out of touch
with the taunted story of his humble background and the
shoeless narrative. It is either that corruption was imprinted
on his receptive mind or his sensitive soul veers relentless to
his earlier shoeless state.
Which ever way, President Jonathan's sun has set
at midnight in the Eastern part of Nigeria, at the Adoration
Ground, where he holds a portion of the nation to a grand
illusion of oneness and slavish governance.
Erasmus Ikhide write in from Lagos, Nigeria.
Tel: 23480 5622 5515
ikhideerasmus@yahoo.com
Follow me on twitter @ (ErasmusIkhide)
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