Now before you judge me, let me be quick to say that I am
not a supporter of His Excellency, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan not because I do not
come from Otueke and its environs but because I thought of him as a weakling
and still do, although now I have more adjectives for him including wicked and
coward.
Looking back into our last 10 months as a nation, we have
been thrown from one state of rumpus to another and all can be traced back to
the leaders that we chose in 2011. I would have loved to say that the present
leadership of this nation was imposed on us but truth be told, these unworthy
leaders (or sorry, rulers- as they are not leading anyone) made
their way up to the presidency because we did not set our priorities right as a
nation; we voted based on sentiments.
I did not vote for the ruling party because they had no
ideals that were sellable to me. It was
heart breaking for me to discover at the polling booth then that majority of
the older generation came out en-masse to vote for Goodluck because no one from
his side of the country had never been president, and some thought Jonathan is
amiable. Such sentiments!
I have been thinking so much about this amiable president
that we have, he has failed the country in many ways but he has not let down the
people who think he is amiable. He has proven that he is readily agreeable; Goodluck
Jonathan has not for once stood up against the enemies of our country or the
citizens. He has been cordial with the menace in this society, from Boko Haram bombings
to unending looting of the national treasury. It’s not his fault; he is simply
amiable.
The North is on fire, and our amiable President looks away,
when he says anything about the bombings, you almost can read his speech along
side with him “We commiserate with the family of the bereaved….” And that line that
I detest because it’s not true “we are on top of the situation”
There was no 51st anniversary of independence
because even GEJ was afraid of Boko Haram, Corp members have been denied of the
glamour of their Passing out Parade because we all do not know where and when the
next bombs would go off, yet Jonathan is on top of the situation. Is our amiable
Jonathan planting the bombs himself because I do not know why he claims to be
on top of the situation when these bombings are escalating?
I do not agree that GEJ is amiable; ask Azazi, the President
is busy fighting him while Boko Haram has a field day. I do not think GEJ is amiable;
ask Timipre Sylva, he was ousted out of the looting business because he had
issues with our amiable President. Jonathan finds his way around things he
wants, like waiting around for the exit or demise of his boss and befriending
those who would install him or chasing away protesters at any point.
My dad voted Goodluck in 2011 because he thinks he is good
natured; the last time I asked him to appraise the good natured president, the
old man sighed and said “may God help us in this nation, this man is something
else”.
These days, I miss the days of OBJ, he had his flaws and
many shortcomings and he was obviously not amiable but we were not being
bombed, and I also thought if MGB had won the elections, may be we would never
had heard of Boko Haram not because he is from the north but because he does
not befriend the cabals and would not have danced to their tunes.
2015 (if we would correct this misatke of a presidency) looks like a decade away from now because our losses
would not be quantifiable by then if our amiable president keeps looking the
other way as his friends; the cabals, loot and bomb the nation.
