Sayo Aluko (Sunday, April 10, 2011)
.....If Goodluck Jonathan were not vacuous and
clueless about the actual demands of leadership
like all his other PDP co-travelers, he should have
been putting forward some of his past and
present outstanding accomplishments, if any, for
which he should be judged qualified for
continued stay in office. I am sure if there were
such a thing, they would have long unearthed it,
repackaged it, re-branded it, remolded it, and
added a few spices here and there with a view to
serving them fresh to us as his selling points. But
because there is simply no such track record
anywhere and they couldn’t possibly
manufacture any, they continue to beat about the
bush over qualities that do not exist.
For instance, whereas Dora Akunyili and Nuhu
Ribadu can both be remembered for their giant
strides at NAFDAC and the EFCC respectively, Oby
Okwesili as the Due-Process lady, Okonjo Iweala
for championing the repayment of our foreign
debts, El Rufia for the restoration of Abuja master
plan, Donald Duke for TINAPA and its tourist
potentials, Fashola for his re-invention of Lagos
and even Atiku Abubarkar for his instrumentality
in the appointment of some of these achievers, if
for nothing else; What can we ever remember
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan for, right from
his days as the Environment Director at the
OMPADEC to Bayelsa State House as Deputy
Governor and Governor, and now the Presidency
as Vice President and President?
What is he bringing on to the table as his
bargaining chip for our votes, so he can remain
in power beyond May 29th, 2010? Nothing! Apart
from the old, time-worn argument that his name
is Goodluck (or Bad Luck?), and that he has never
stood in any election before and still managed to
become Governor and President in an ‘electoral
democracy’- such a contradiction and an irony of
fate, and therefore he definitely must be our
modern day Messiah like we have heard said
about a thoroughly disappointing and disgraced
OBJ. And ironically, this Messiah (Jonathan)
happens to be one without any known strong
virtues, neither capable of a holy anger or sense
of repulsion for evil or corruption in wherever he
has served- OMPADEC, Bayelsa and the
Presidency.
Just pause for a moment to think about it: what
can you possibly recall about the OMPADEC,
Bayelsa and the Nigerian Presidency especially
under Yaradua & Jonathan but that they were/are
all riddled with a common denominator, notably,
corruption, looting, mismanagement, cronyism,
lack of leadership and cluelessness. That was
why OMPADEC collapsed, Bayelsa is a failed state
even though received so much money so far,
and the Presidency isn ’t working.
These facts go to prove that, perhaps, the only
thing that is legendary about this Goodluck
Jonathan is his silence, his muteness, his
diffidence, his timidity (please, read complicity,
collaboration and connivance), often mistaken for
"loyalty" and "unassuming disposition", in the
face of monumental corruption and mis-
governance like we saw perpetrated under
Horsfall ’s OMPADEC, Alamaesigha and Yaradua
and still going on in present Jonathan’s
government.
Unlike Moses or Jesus Christ- other types of
Messiahs, this Messiah is known to put up with
anything and everything and can hardly rock the
boat lest he and his co-looters collectively drown.
He ’s neither hot nor cold, and still expects not to
be spewed out. He is deficit in character, courage,
decisiveness, originality and integrity. A man that
is not worth his signature on the PDP ’s charter on
zoning, how can you ever take seriously his
verbal utterances- mere campaign promises
made out of desperation for power? A man so
desperate for power he has no qualms
campaigning with the ghost of a dead man. And
a dead man, who is just who just got turned a
looser in a power game that has Jonathan
together with his co-gladiators positioned as the
sole benefactor in the aftermath. Now, what can
you ever do or achieve with such a man?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
And talking about co-gladiators, ever wondered
about the kind of friends our dearly beloved
messiah had been intent on keeping around
himself so far? Tony Anenih, Gerry Gana, E. K.
Clark, Gemade, Dangote, the Vaswani brothers,
Oghadiome, Adoki, Uduaghan, Ohakim, Donald
Etiebet, Danjuma, Alams, Otedola (please help me
add more names) - some of Nigeria ’s most
rapacious elements. A case of “Show me your
friends and I will show you who you are”, huh?
Ever wondered why he’s ever so ready and
enthusiastic in negotiating and making
compromises with everybody and anybody (IBB,
Atiku, Ciroma, Dokpesi, Olusola Saraki etc.) in
what appears to be an unquenchable lust and
desperation for sheer raw power dripping with
slime, filth and lucre- power reeking of foul putrid
stench. We would be watching with keen interest
to see how this unfolding macabre dance drama
would be finally resolved and in whose ultimate
favor
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