JONATHAN AND HIS SOUTH-EAST POLITICAL JOBBERS

What was the system during the military eras in Nigeria is being enacted by the present democratic dispensation. This is a bad omen for the nation and only shows that Ghana’s Rawling type of treatment is only what is required to sanitize the Nigerian political system. The Ghana situation continues to recur in statements from notable Nigerian personalities.

President Jonathan seems to have adopted the military style of endorsements and this definitely is against the rules (even) in his PDP party. Why he should not call to order all those sycophants is what baffles many.

A group of people that called themselves Igbo elders gathered, possibly for personal reasons, eulogized, cajoled and massaged Jonathan’s ego and at the end parochially called on him to contest the 2011 presidential election. When you look at those that assembled and issued such statement, you would see "expired products" as their identities. Then which Igbo citizens are they representing? Is it those that have started voicing their resentments to such pronouncement or which? The Ohaneze Ndigbo has dissociated itself from those bunches. More notable Igbo personalities and groups also saw the bunch’s pronouncement as self-serving that would not augur well for the Igbo nation.

It is only left for Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to, as an Igbo saying goes: "use his tongue to count his teeth". Those who claim to have spoken for the Igbo nation in his favour are deceiving him and they are not tigers leading him. Jonathan would have printed his name in gold and leave the stage and Nigerians would later seek him to return as elected President in the near future, after all age is still in his favour. Since he has ignored good counsels, then he may end up as the proverbial fly that accompanied a dead body into the grave.

Dike Ohia, PhD, Road 8, Festac Town, Lagos.