Goodluck Jonathan, now the President of Nigeria or Acting President, I beg your pardon. The man has been lucky all his life. He always got into offices he would never have been considered fit for unless he got their through the misfortune of another. What a luck! Too bad, Yar'dua's illness will not let him finish his portion of the Nigerian misfortune as President of the nation. The pity party we would have thrown for him simply has been overridden by those nurses who are trying to nurse his illness rather than nurse him. His state of health means so much to them that they would perhaps not want him to recover. Or how shall we explain the attitude of Turai and the Cabal? Have they not abandoned nursing our president for nursing his illness?
Sadly still, the tension that rose about whether or not Jonathan should take over place of power was sheer noise that promised no good fortune still for our ailing country. We may congratulate Jonathan for goodluck, at least now he has his name written as President or Acting President in his life time and he stand to enjoy the entitlement accrued thereto, but is it any luck for Nigeria as a nation? What magic would this lucky fellow perform that we never saw any inkling of while he's been in power in other capacity? What good will a man do who was part of the passing administration and yet proved no good.
Here we go again, the same set of rulers, same rogues, same faces, have no greater place they are driving the nation except the same where they have assisted their predecessors to take it.
I do not know how many people truly and sincerely hoped for any change in Nigeria or an improvement in the nation's economy to be brought by a Goodluck's administration.
Nigeria, Nigeria, we cannot be going in the same direction hoping that our destination will be any difference talk more, better. Until there is a true change in power, the system that operates currently in Nigeria needs a total overhauling to have a tangible better promise for the welfare of the nation. Old things must truly pass away and all things must be entirely new indeed at the realm of power and policy making to attain the future we desire.
We have enough embarrassment with the misrepresentation of the good people of our country with the poor few whose conditions are most pitiable by the kind of obsession they have for power when they have nothing to offer, it is time to project the correct image of our country with good people who have been pushed to the backgrounds for fear of being corrupted or even killed.We must continue to demonstrate that power belongs to the people under God and they deserve a good life and respect for the freedom to choose their leaders.
God bless the good people of Nigeria, God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
Felix Bamirin
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