Expdonaloaded News; As Goodluck Jonathan returns to Otuoke

It’s only a matter of time before Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s presi­dent-elect, becomes prayer points in churches, mosques and other plac­es of religious worship.
After all, here’s a man whose name almost en­tered the infamous ‘Book of Perennial Contestants’ before providence smiled on him. President Goodluck Jonathan failed to redeem his cam­paign promises and the electorate expressed their anger with their thumbs.
That some people once wished Buhari dead and that he’s an ‘un­electable illiterate’ who’d not win the March 2015 presidential election is no longer news. Be that as it may, that God, in His infinite mercies, turned the counsel of their Ahithophel into foolishness is good news to all lovers of a just and egalitarian society.
In a desperate bid to return to power, President Jonathan acted King Rehoboam but God again demonstrated the ‘bringing down one and ex­alting another’ power that is His exclusive preserve.
Brandon Sanderson, in ‘The Alloy of Law’, wrote: “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in or­der to accomplish the vital ones.” In my humble view, one good quality of a great leader is operating with the led on a plane pane undera “we” kind of agreement. Another is living by choice, not by accident; and exerting influence, not authority. Impliedly, a true leader is a product of anointing, not annoyance. He is patient, humorous, courageous, flexible, resourceful and stubborn. He doesn’t necessarily have to go along with huge crowds or lead by hitting people over the head. Instead, he goes his own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following him.
In addition to possessing a keen sense of reality, he also has the abil­ity to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. The leader who holds power in trust for the people neither wanes in his duties nor delights in the extinction of those over whose destiny he presides. To him, leadership is not a language of ‘how far’ but ‘how well.’ In short, a true leader, to quote Kenneth Blanchard, does “not make people into fol­lowers, but into other leaders.”
As we all know, future history is always a baby of today’s pregnancy. For a fact, one major pitfall of the outgoing government was the myoniza­tion of the Jonathan presidency by a section of Nigerians who only helped him to increase the nature and number of his enemies. To these people, it was as if votes cast by our brethren from one or two geopolitical zones alone were enough to win a second term for their preferred candidate. Like typical men with artificial intelligence, they were stubbornly hitting out with dangerously inflated egos without caring a hoot about what the shape or size of the consequence would take.
Another factor that led to the president’s dismal outing was the calibre of politicians his party paraded as leaders. The People’s Democratic Party, PDP failed to interrogate the political values of its foremen and the outing has never been this bad for the party.
For instance, in the activities leading to the Year 2007 General Elec­tions in which Musliu Obanikoro contested as PDP governorship candi­date in Lagos State, I remember his invidious exploits on the Ebute-Met­ta-Oyingbo axis of Lagos where guns and other dangerous weapons were freely used during one of his campaign rallies. Again, I am sure – and, Obanikoro knows, too – that history will never forgive him for the roles he played in last year’s governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States. Now, the chickens are back home, roosting and PDP’s loss is yet another in the series of payback packages that await troublers of Nigeria’s Israel.
Put succinctly, it’s President Jonathan’s inability to act presidential when and where need be that led him into being such a disappointment unto those who voted for him in 2011. The threateningly interesting aspect of it is that the president failed to understand that ‘good governance’ is not synonymous with ‘good luck’. Added to this was his inability to know when to die! Nelson Mandela learnt the trick of dying when the ovation was still ascending and he remains celebrated even in death. Murtala Mu­hammed was luckier as he left the stage, possibly, before his true iden­tity became revealed. Olusegun Obasanjo embarked on a ‘Third Term’ misadventure and he ended up making a complete mess of his previous achievements.
Breakdown of governance! Betrayal of trust! Perverted dispensation of justice! Nigeria is an interesting country, inhabited by wonderful people who, in their wonderful splendour, take with kindness anything imposed on them by their rulers.post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com. Things are with each passing day falling apart and, since we lack the spirit of applying caution with courtesy, the centre has refused to hold. Liars are leading liars and the results have been un­deniably pathetic. Here, we relentlessly demonize non-thieves as armed robbers but resiliently celebrate robbers as saints. In our country, riggers shamelessly accuse others of rigging; riggers probe others of rigging; and riggers expel others under the guise of rigging. And when an endowed race devotes so much time to praying for light, water and other things, which are, in sane climes, given, they end up hardly having time to pray for things that are naturally spiritual.
Tragically, under Jonathan’s leadership, Nigeria became so ‘great’ that all her great potentials lay prostrate, courtesy of failure of vision, failure of action, failure of governance and failure to accept responsibilities. In Jonathan’s Israel, there’s no king. So, everybody was a king in his own right! Not unsurprisingly, Nigeria, under him became a conflagration of desperate and adulterous politicians; nothing but super-idiotic representa­tion of fallacious innuendoes in a precarious reciprocity of pomposity that impressed no one.
Our dear country was socio-economically depressed, ethno-religiously fractured and geo-politically destabilized. The president presided over the affairs of a ‘Power’ government comprising domain defenders and reluctant reactors who hid under the cloak of darkness to activate hatred but explored the openness of daytime to commiserate with their victims. Probably not a man primed for great accomplishments, Jonathan could neither dream nor act; he could neither plan nor believe. Ironically, while the president and those who surrounded him were seeing ‘all things bright and beautiful’ in a dying nation, all that those outside the perimeters of power could do was bemoan the Jonathanian’s sycophancy, showiness, showmanship and shallowness.
With Jonathan at the helm of affairs, frustration became the best de­scription of the state of most Nigerians. It was such a throwback into an ugly past that our policies, rather than mirror us, mocked us; our state, rather than being an ideal one, became nothing but an ordeal; and the individual components of the polity, rather than be in concord, were in discord. Coincidentally, the crowning of Ahab as king over Israel led to the elevation of Jezebel as the de jure controller of the affairs of state in Is­rael. There and then, decency took flight and lasciviousness took control. Corruption and self-adulation suddenly took over the affairs of Nigeria and, rather than give to Peter what was Peter’s, the Jonathanian exploited almost all the rules under the sun to rob Peter in order to pay Paul.
Thanks be to God for the lives of those who made ‘Change’ happen; for ‘if Columbus had turned back, no one would have … remembered him.’ The timely turn of events has again shown that we cannot continue to do things the same old way and expect to get a different result. With regard to the incoming government, expectations of Nigerians are high. But that’s not unexpected! With regard to Buhari, there is no doubt that the people expect this spectacularly striking, enviably erudite, bravely beloved and giftedly gracious blueprint of integrity to deliver on his promise. Without doubt, there is a basketful of options placed before the Daura-born politi­cian: he may choose to idealize the vibes of truth or glamourize the thrills of deceit. Like Jonathan, he may opt for puffing and huffing. If he likes, instead of lightening Nigerians’ harsh labour, he may also put a heavier yoke on them. The truth is that each option has its rewards and Nigerians can only wish him well!

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