EDITORIAL
Jonathan’s Spell Must be Broken
A. M. Bashir Shuwa
Janurary 21, 2012
Nigeria is afflicted by a spell that is causing the loss of many lives as a
result of the terrorism of those who lie in ambush against gullible citizens. It
seems there is something amongst top political leadership which seeks to distort
our minds and have no interest in truth and justice.
The mischief and folly planted by those behind men under a spell, who go to bed
with their boots on, raises all kinds of immediate and urgent practical and deep
concerns about the Jonathan leadership.
There is so much at stake, and we must understand that President Jonathan is not
bothered about our well-being, security, and peace. He will rather continue to
fret quietly for some weeks and always go against those who proffer logical
solutions to our problems by his growing indifference to the current security
challenges confronting our country.
It does not seem to me, that Jonathan has the capacity to handle the problems
bedeviling our country and his failure to govern the country may lead to the
aggravation of the characteristics that led to the escalation of violence and
insecurity in Nigeria. He came into the office unprepared for the
responsibilities and challenges and realizing that he does not have the capacity
and skill to lead, he is trying to subvert the nation by bringing it down with
him.
The truth is that President Jonathan is suffering from inferiority complex
because he seems not to know what he is doing and it is difficult to understand
what he means, therefore he doubts his own actions and cannot speak honestly and
the sooner he is inabilities are discovered the better.
One can clearly notice his failure by observing how the Nigerian leadership is
gradually drifting and losing grips in finding solutions to the myriad of
aggravations to the system and the obscurity of the leadership in handling
crisis.
The only thing that is of interest to Jonathan and his followers is perpetuating
themselves (the government) even as the rest of the country and its people are
made to suffer from the absence of a purpose for his government. The coincidence
will not be observed until when those who recognize the problem we are faced
with give undivided attention to the way our country is drifting.
We must therefore find a balance between those in Jonathan’s camp who believe in
fatalism in our affairs and the impossibility of intervention in solving mutual
distrust, as against those looking for true balance in achieving a healthy
commonwealth through dialogue and not confrontation. It is imperative that we
distinguish between liberty and authority in seeking for truth. and also believe
it is possible to find the truth in whatever we do.
The Jonathan administration is unleashing primitive passions in dealing with the
nation’s challenges. These include
the fatal diseases of the concentrated power and concentrated wealth fed by
corruption and mismanagement which they would like nobody to unearth, let alone
expose. Yet they deem it necessary
to forcefully confront those who are against the drift and the hallucination his
government is promoting.
The Jonathan administration will go in history as one government that is
unfaithful by word and example, a government that is evasive, complacent and
acquisitive.
The spell brought by Jonathan on Nigeria is appallingly dangerous and
demoralizing. The risks of repudiating our cherished institutions and weakening
our defense mechanisms by disorganizing our security apparatuses, demoralizing
the people and shattering the influence of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in
the comity of nations must not be allowed to succeed. That the present crop of
politicians must not be allowed to gamble recklessly with the fate of our
country cannot be ignored. Nigeria must rise far above the interest of those who
hold our sensitive position but are frightened, soft, untruthful, and so meanly
ambitious that they stoop too low and have no vision but rather lead us to
perish. That must not be allowed to
happen no matter the cost!
An
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