Thursday, May 26, 2011
The adage, uneasy lies the head that
wears the crown, is, undoubtedly, a
truism vindicated by global realities.
Still, in view of the situation of our
incumbent President cum President-
elect, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,
against the background of the
peculiarly Nigerian socio-political and
economic adversities, this saying
pales into an understatement.
Someone who loves me should
kindly help tell Mr. President that I
do not, in the least, envy him or his
exalted office, particularly his recent
victory in the April 16 presidential
election.
To secure such a nationwide victory
in a globally acknowledged credible,
free and fair poll, which confers a
pan-Nigerian mandate, is indeed a
sweet achievement that calls for
celebration. To me and to a
multitude of other patriots,
Jonathan’s victory is an awesome
one. In fact, he himself must have
realised that his is a strange victory
with strange elements (in the
Nigerian parlance). The mysteries?
Free! Fair! Transparent! Credible! pan-
Nigerian! These elements constitute
the burdensome load on Dr.
Jonathan’s head, rather than the
various constitutionally spelt-out
responsibilities of the fiercely
contested office. At least, he has just
completed a one-year baptism in
the saddle.
Therefore, I am convinced that Dr.
Jonathan’s recent secret mission to
Obudu was to escape the prying
public eyes in the Villa to a place
where he could, irresistibly and
conveniently, fill a large number of
buckets with his tears of joy. Yes!
Dr. Jonathan, a man from a humble
background in the minority Ijaw
tribe, whose kinsmen had, hitherto,
been popular in the history of
Nigeria, only as victims of political
and economic exploitation and
suppression, cannot but shed tears.
The necessity for his uncontrollable
tears is the seemingly
unprecedented nationwide
endorsement he has just secured
through the ballot, a feat
comparable only to the ill-fated
M.KO. Abiola’s June 12, 1993 record.
Still, Jonathan’s April 16 record is
miles away from June 12, as the
votes of Nigerians in the latest
experiment have really counted, to
set the stage for the ascension of the
people’s choice come May 29, 2011.
A first time national record, by my
own reckoning.
And while the rest of us, with the
exception of our President-elect, can
reel in endless ecstasy and fun,
having regained our long lost
franchise, Dr. Jonathan, in whom
we have invested our most
cherished and potent resources,
does not have that luxury. I bet, he
can only indulge in such at his own
peril.
Come May 29, Dr. Jonathan would
therefore present himself, at the
Eagle Square in Abuja, for the
completion of the process of placing
our gargantuan national problems
on his singular head by the rest of
us. This represents a radical
departure from our past when
imposed leaders with sectional
mandates were usually rigged on us
through charades masqueraded as
elections.
The Yoruba kinsmen of the
immediate past President, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo, never identified
with him, particularly during his first
term. To them, one of their own
was not their own. He was
President of some other tribes who
made him. Ditto for the preceding
First and Second Republic, during
which ethnicity was the ultimate
decider of who got what.
The effect was tragic, as our best
materials became objects of sacrifice
on the altar of ethnicity and religion.
The best appellation and highest title
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, for
instance, ever attained was‘the best
President Nigeria never
had’ (apology to Chief Odumegwu
Ojukwu). Awolowo, a President that
was never was, must, by now, be
blaming, in his grave, the
prevalence of ethno-religious politics
in the Nigeria of his days for his
woes.
Perhaps, it was actually the sectional
nature of the mandates held by all
the previous tenants, at our
Presidential Villa, which saddled
them with very light burden in the
form of sectional allegiance that had
been responsible for the recurrence
of lackadaisical leadership on our
political scene. This is where I see a
radical departure from the past. The
Nigerian presidency from May 29,
2011 to 2015 will, logically, be a
national trust to be exercised on
behalf of all Nigerians across ethno-
religious lines. This is exactly where
the heavy burden lies for the trusted
Dr. Jonathan. He cannot afford to fail
any section of the nation, being his
single constituency. Factually, he
owes no section, ethnic, religious or
whatever, any special favour for his
election. The starting point for him
is, thus, the selection of the best
hands to help him in the discharge
of his burdens.
Although the socio-economic and
political interests of those who
scaled divisive fences to enthrone
him would necessarily clash at all
times, Dr. Jonathan must, at all
times, find his feet as the balancing
force at the centre. However, a
highly delicate dimension to this
balancing duty is that he shall bear
the fate of having to live outside
himself. While every other Nigerian
can afford to think, speak and act as
a Hausa, Fulani, Ibo, Yoruba, Itsekiri,
Ogoni, Ijaw, Urhobo, etc., the man
that would steer our ship for the
next four years must not perceive
himself primarily as an Ijaw man.
No matter how strongly he might
feel about the Niger Delta question,
he must not condescend into a tribal
presidency.
The underlying factor, here, is the
burden that the fragile chord that
thinly binds us together poses, a
reality that came to the fore in the
2011 post-election violence in some
parts of the North. While I sincerely
condemn the senseless carnage and
condole the bereaved families and
the nation at large, I crave
indulgence to describe the
unfortunate incidents in Kaduna,
Bauchi, Borno, Zamfara and some
others as blessing in disguise for the
nation, particularly for the incoming
Jonathan presidency. The crisis has
served as an eye-opener for us all. It
has successfully reinforced some
hard facts, which the one-Nigerian
voting pattern of April 16 might
have, possibly, relegated into
oblivion. Consequently, the
President about to be inaugurated
has just had his memory awakened
to the reality that a lot still needs to
be done in the task of making
Nigeria one. It is thus a wake-up call
to duty, to dispense with previously
cherished sentiments, opinions and
personal idiosyncrasies, but to
objectively evaluate the different
alternative solutions to the question
of unity.
This becomes imperative in view of
the dangerous trend represented by
the loud calls for the scrapping of
the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) scheme even by proponents
of national unity, within and outside
government. This is ironic to a fatal
extent. Let every patriot be
reminded that since the NYSC has,
historically, been the only Nigerian
institution manifesting and
sustaining our fragile unity,
suggestions for its cancellation are
the same as prescribing the
termination of the project Nigeria.
What, in my view, Jonathan must
infer, logically, from the post-
election brouhaha is the vanity of
past attempts to selectively reform
the parts of a whole while the
system as a whole suffers from the
resulting disconnect within it. This
approach, which Mr. President has
already inherited and may likely
continue, must be discarded in
favour of a comprehensive socio-
economic and political reform.
Next to unity is the problem of
general infrastructural deficit that has
kept our socio-economic life in a
fifty-year limbo. There is no
gainsaying that erratic power supply
has consistently constituted the
worst headache plaguing all
Nigerians since our independence.
But, with the privatisation step
already taken by the President, all
that is needed is faithful
implementation that will
revolutionize the power sector in a
manner reminiscent of the
telecommunication turnaround.
Success in this regard will go a long
way in rescuing local industries and
businesses from the threshold of
total collapse and extinction. The
political gain of constant national
supply of electricity would be
automatic and voluntary political
goodwill from the populace for the
government that did the seemingly
impossible, thereby solving the age-
long dearth of popular support base
that has typified successive
administrations.
And, on a last bend, certain notes of
warning are hereby imperative. Dr.
Jonathan must avoid a traditional
pitfall that has been the bane of
most of his predecessors in Nigerian
democratic history. Our President
must avoid the temptation to tinker
with the opposition, by allowing the
opposition voice to thrive. He must
learn to accommodate the other
voice from the hallowed chamber of
the National Assembly, opposition
parties, the judiciary, the media,
non-governmental organisations
and others in a manner consistent
with his avowed commitment to
the rule of law. Thus, our first ever
pan-Nigerian President will
automatically secure the required
support from the hands of all
Nigerians, to transform a heavy
burden to a mere paper.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
GOD Help GEJA
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The adage, uneasy lies the head that
wears the crown, is, undoubtedly, a
truism vindicated by global realities.
Still, in view of the situation of our
incumbent President cum President-
elect, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,
against the background of the
peculiarly Nigerian socio-political and
economic adversities, this saying
pales into an understatement.
Someone who loves me should
kindly help tell Mr. President that I
do not, in the least, envy him or his
exalted office, particularly his recent
victory in the April 16 presidential
election.
To secure such a nationwide victory
in a globally acknowledged credible,
free and fair poll, which confers a
pan-Nigerian mandate, is indeed a
sweet achievement that calls for
celebration. To me and to a
multitude of other patriots,
Jonathan’s victory is an awesome
one. In fact, he himself must have
realised that his is a strange victory
with strange elements (in the
Nigerian parlance). The mysteries?
Free! Fair! Transparent! Credible! pan-
Nigerian! These elements constitute
the burdensome load on Dr.
Jonathan’s head, rather than the
various constitutionally spelt-out
responsibilities of the fiercely
contested office. At least, he has just
completed a one-year baptism in
the saddle.
Therefore, I am convinced that Dr.
Jonathan’s recent secret mission to
Obudu was to escape the prying
public eyes in the Villa to a place
where he could, irresistibly and
conveniently, fill a large number of
buckets with his tears of joy. Yes!
Dr. Jonathan, a man from a humble
background in the minority Ijaw
tribe, whose kinsmen had, hitherto,
been popular in the history of
Nigeria, only as victims of political
and economic exploitation and
suppression, cannot but shed tears.
The necessity for his uncontrollable
tears is the seemingly
unprecedented nationwide
endorsement he has just secured
through the ballot, a feat
comparable only to the ill-fated
M.KO. Abiola’s June 12, 1993 record.
Still, Jonathan’s April 16 record is
miles away from June 12, as the
votes of Nigerians in the latest
experiment have really counted, to
set the stage for the ascension of the
people’s choice come May 29, 2011.
A first time national record, by my
own reckoning.
And while the rest of us, with the
exception of our President-elect, can
reel in endless ecstasy and fun,
having regained our long lost
franchise, Dr. Jonathan, in whom
we have invested our most
cherished and potent resources,
does not have that luxury. I bet, he
can only indulge in such at his own
peril.
Come May 29, Dr. Jonathan would
therefore present himself, at the
Eagle Square in Abuja, for the
completion of the process of placing
our gargantuan national problems
on his singular head by the rest of
us. This represents a radical
departure from our past when
imposed leaders with sectional
mandates were usually rigged on us
through charades masqueraded as
elections.
The Yoruba kinsmen of the
immediate past President, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo, never identified
with him, particularly during his first
term. To them, one of their own
was not their own. He was
President of some other tribes who
made him. Ditto for the preceding
First and Second Republic, during
which ethnicity was the ultimate
decider of who got what.
The effect was tragic, as our best
materials became objects of sacrifice
on the altar of ethnicity and religion.
The best appellation and highest title
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, for
instance, ever attained was‘the best
President Nigeria never
had’ (apology to Chief Odumegwu
Ojukwu). Awolowo, a President that
was never was, must, by now, be
blaming, in his grave, the
prevalence of ethno-religious politics
in the Nigeria of his days for his
woes.
Perhaps, it was actually the sectional
nature of the mandates held by all
the previous tenants, at our
Presidential Villa, which saddled
them with very light burden in the
form of sectional allegiance that had
been responsible for the recurrence
of lackadaisical leadership on our
political scene. This is where I see a
radical departure from the past. The
Nigerian presidency from May 29,
2011 to 2015 will, logically, be a
national trust to be exercised on
behalf of all Nigerians across ethno-
religious lines. This is exactly where
the heavy burden lies for the trusted
Dr. Jonathan. He cannot afford to fail
any section of the nation, being his
single constituency. Factually, he
owes no section, ethnic, religious or
whatever, any special favour for his
election. The starting point for him
is, thus, the selection of the best
hands to help him in the discharge
of his burdens.
Although the socio-economic and
political interests of those who
scaled divisive fences to enthrone
him would necessarily clash at all
times, Dr. Jonathan must, at all
times, find his feet as the balancing
force at the centre. However, a
highly delicate dimension to this
balancing duty is that he shall bear
the fate of having to live outside
himself. While every other Nigerian
can afford to think, speak and act as
a Hausa, Fulani, Ibo, Yoruba, Itsekiri,
Ogoni, Ijaw, Urhobo, etc., the man
that would steer our ship for the
next four years must not perceive
himself primarily as an Ijaw man.
No matter how strongly he might
feel about the Niger Delta question,
he must not condescend into a tribal
presidency.
The underlying factor, here, is the
burden that the fragile chord that
thinly binds us together poses, a
reality that came to the fore in the
2011 post-election violence in some
parts of the North. While I sincerely
condemn the senseless carnage and
condole the bereaved families and
the nation at large, I crave
indulgence to describe the
unfortunate incidents in Kaduna,
Bauchi, Borno, Zamfara and some
others as blessing in disguise for the
nation, particularly for the incoming
Jonathan presidency. The crisis has
served as an eye-opener for us all. It
has successfully reinforced some
hard facts, which the one-Nigerian
voting pattern of April 16 might
have, possibly, relegated into
oblivion. Consequently, the
President about to be inaugurated
has just had his memory awakened
to the reality that a lot still needs to
be done in the task of making
Nigeria one. It is thus a wake-up call
to duty, to dispense with previously
cherished sentiments, opinions and
personal idiosyncrasies, but to
objectively evaluate the different
alternative solutions to the question
of unity.
This becomes imperative in view of
the dangerous trend represented by
the loud calls for the scrapping of
the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) scheme even by proponents
of national unity, within and outside
government. This is ironic to a fatal
extent. Let every patriot be
reminded that since the NYSC has,
historically, been the only Nigerian
institution manifesting and
sustaining our fragile unity,
suggestions for its cancellation are
the same as prescribing the
termination of the project Nigeria.
What, in my view, Jonathan must
infer, logically, from the post-
election brouhaha is the vanity of
past attempts to selectively reform
the parts of a whole while the
system as a whole suffers from the
resulting disconnect within it. This
approach, which Mr. President has
already inherited and may likely
continue, must be discarded in
favour of a comprehensive socio-
economic and political reform.
Next to unity is the problem of
general infrastructural deficit that has
kept our socio-economic life in a
fifty-year limbo. There is no
gainsaying that erratic power supply
has consistently constituted the
worst headache plaguing all
Nigerians since our independence.
But, with the privatisation step
already taken by the President, all
that is needed is faithful
implementation that will
revolutionize the power sector in a
manner reminiscent of the
telecommunication turnaround.
Success in this regard will go a long
way in rescuing local industries and
businesses from the threshold of
total collapse and extinction. The
political gain of constant national
supply of electricity would be
automatic and voluntary political
goodwill from the populace for the
government that did the seemingly
impossible, thereby solving the age-
long dearth of popular support base
that has typified successive
administrations.
And, on a last bend, certain notes of
warning are hereby imperative. Dr.
Jonathan must avoid a traditional
pitfall that has been the bane of
most of his predecessors in Nigerian
democratic history. Our President
must avoid the temptation to tinker
with the opposition, by allowing the
opposition voice to thrive. He must
learn to accommodate the other
voice from the hallowed chamber of
the National Assembly, opposition
parties, the judiciary, the media,
non-governmental organisations
and others in a manner consistent
with his avowed commitment to
the rule of law. Thus, our first ever
pan-Nigerian President will
automatically secure the required
support from the hands of all
Nigerians, to transform a heavy
burden to a mere paper.
The adage, uneasy lies the head that
wears the crown, is, undoubtedly, a
truism vindicated by global realities.
Still, in view of the situation of our
incumbent President cum President-
elect, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,
against the background of the
peculiarly Nigerian socio-political and
economic adversities, this saying
pales into an understatement.
Someone who loves me should
kindly help tell Mr. President that I
do not, in the least, envy him or his
exalted office, particularly his recent
victory in the April 16 presidential
election.
To secure such a nationwide victory
in a globally acknowledged credible,
free and fair poll, which confers a
pan-Nigerian mandate, is indeed a
sweet achievement that calls for
celebration. To me and to a
multitude of other patriots,
Jonathan’s victory is an awesome
one. In fact, he himself must have
realised that his is a strange victory
with strange elements (in the
Nigerian parlance). The mysteries?
Free! Fair! Transparent! Credible! pan-
Nigerian! These elements constitute
the burdensome load on Dr.
Jonathan’s head, rather than the
various constitutionally spelt-out
responsibilities of the fiercely
contested office. At least, he has just
completed a one-year baptism in
the saddle.
Therefore, I am convinced that Dr.
Jonathan’s recent secret mission to
Obudu was to escape the prying
public eyes in the Villa to a place
where he could, irresistibly and
conveniently, fill a large number of
buckets with his tears of joy. Yes!
Dr. Jonathan, a man from a humble
background in the minority Ijaw
tribe, whose kinsmen had, hitherto,
been popular in the history of
Nigeria, only as victims of political
and economic exploitation and
suppression, cannot but shed tears.
The necessity for his uncontrollable
tears is the seemingly
unprecedented nationwide
endorsement he has just secured
through the ballot, a feat
comparable only to the ill-fated
M.KO. Abiola’s June 12, 1993 record.
Still, Jonathan’s April 16 record is
miles away from June 12, as the
votes of Nigerians in the latest
experiment have really counted, to
set the stage for the ascension of the
people’s choice come May 29, 2011.
A first time national record, by my
own reckoning.
And while the rest of us, with the
exception of our President-elect, can
reel in endless ecstasy and fun,
having regained our long lost
franchise, Dr. Jonathan, in whom
we have invested our most
cherished and potent resources,
does not have that luxury. I bet, he
can only indulge in such at his own
peril.
Come May 29, Dr. Jonathan would
therefore present himself, at the
Eagle Square in Abuja, for the
completion of the process of placing
our gargantuan national problems
on his singular head by the rest of
us. This represents a radical
departure from our past when
imposed leaders with sectional
mandates were usually rigged on us
through charades masqueraded as
elections.
The Yoruba kinsmen of the
immediate past President, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo, never identified
with him, particularly during his first
term. To them, one of their own
was not their own. He was
President of some other tribes who
made him. Ditto for the preceding
First and Second Republic, during
which ethnicity was the ultimate
decider of who got what.
The effect was tragic, as our best
materials became objects of sacrifice
on the altar of ethnicity and religion.
The best appellation and highest title
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, for
instance, ever attained was‘the best
President Nigeria never
had’ (apology to Chief Odumegwu
Ojukwu). Awolowo, a President that
was never was, must, by now, be
blaming, in his grave, the
prevalence of ethno-religious politics
in the Nigeria of his days for his
woes.
Perhaps, it was actually the sectional
nature of the mandates held by all
the previous tenants, at our
Presidential Villa, which saddled
them with very light burden in the
form of sectional allegiance that had
been responsible for the recurrence
of lackadaisical leadership on our
political scene. This is where I see a
radical departure from the past. The
Nigerian presidency from May 29,
2011 to 2015 will, logically, be a
national trust to be exercised on
behalf of all Nigerians across ethno-
religious lines. This is exactly where
the heavy burden lies for the trusted
Dr. Jonathan. He cannot afford to fail
any section of the nation, being his
single constituency. Factually, he
owes no section, ethnic, religious or
whatever, any special favour for his
election. The starting point for him
is, thus, the selection of the best
hands to help him in the discharge
of his burdens.
Although the socio-economic and
political interests of those who
scaled divisive fences to enthrone
him would necessarily clash at all
times, Dr. Jonathan must, at all
times, find his feet as the balancing
force at the centre. However, a
highly delicate dimension to this
balancing duty is that he shall bear
the fate of having to live outside
himself. While every other Nigerian
can afford to think, speak and act as
a Hausa, Fulani, Ibo, Yoruba, Itsekiri,
Ogoni, Ijaw, Urhobo, etc., the man
that would steer our ship for the
next four years must not perceive
himself primarily as an Ijaw man.
No matter how strongly he might
feel about the Niger Delta question,
he must not condescend into a tribal
presidency.
The underlying factor, here, is the
burden that the fragile chord that
thinly binds us together poses, a
reality that came to the fore in the
2011 post-election violence in some
parts of the North. While I sincerely
condemn the senseless carnage and
condole the bereaved families and
the nation at large, I crave
indulgence to describe the
unfortunate incidents in Kaduna,
Bauchi, Borno, Zamfara and some
others as blessing in disguise for the
nation, particularly for the incoming
Jonathan presidency. The crisis has
served as an eye-opener for us all. It
has successfully reinforced some
hard facts, which the one-Nigerian
voting pattern of April 16 might
have, possibly, relegated into
oblivion. Consequently, the
President about to be inaugurated
has just had his memory awakened
to the reality that a lot still needs to
be done in the task of making
Nigeria one. It is thus a wake-up call
to duty, to dispense with previously
cherished sentiments, opinions and
personal idiosyncrasies, but to
objectively evaluate the different
alternative solutions to the question
of unity.
This becomes imperative in view of
the dangerous trend represented by
the loud calls for the scrapping of
the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) scheme even by proponents
of national unity, within and outside
government. This is ironic to a fatal
extent. Let every patriot be
reminded that since the NYSC has,
historically, been the only Nigerian
institution manifesting and
sustaining our fragile unity,
suggestions for its cancellation are
the same as prescribing the
termination of the project Nigeria.
What, in my view, Jonathan must
infer, logically, from the post-
election brouhaha is the vanity of
past attempts to selectively reform
the parts of a whole while the
system as a whole suffers from the
resulting disconnect within it. This
approach, which Mr. President has
already inherited and may likely
continue, must be discarded in
favour of a comprehensive socio-
economic and political reform.
Next to unity is the problem of
general infrastructural deficit that has
kept our socio-economic life in a
fifty-year limbo. There is no
gainsaying that erratic power supply
has consistently constituted the
worst headache plaguing all
Nigerians since our independence.
But, with the privatisation step
already taken by the President, all
that is needed is faithful
implementation that will
revolutionize the power sector in a
manner reminiscent of the
telecommunication turnaround.
Success in this regard will go a long
way in rescuing local industries and
businesses from the threshold of
total collapse and extinction. The
political gain of constant national
supply of electricity would be
automatic and voluntary political
goodwill from the populace for the
government that did the seemingly
impossible, thereby solving the age-
long dearth of popular support base
that has typified successive
administrations.
And, on a last bend, certain notes of
warning are hereby imperative. Dr.
Jonathan must avoid a traditional
pitfall that has been the bane of
most of his predecessors in Nigerian
democratic history. Our President
must avoid the temptation to tinker
with the opposition, by allowing the
opposition voice to thrive. He must
learn to accommodate the other
voice from the hallowed chamber of
the National Assembly, opposition
parties, the judiciary, the media,
non-governmental organisations
and others in a manner consistent
with his avowed commitment to
the rule of law. Thus, our first ever
pan-Nigerian President will
automatically secure the required
support from the hands of all
Nigerians, to transform a heavy
burden to a mere paper.
The New Nigerian Face
>> Thursday, May 26,2011 <<
The entire north has since failed to
be united by a common ideology
because of the rise of down trodden
and minority empires ,second,
northern ruling elites and the
detractors ,third, misgiving against
the underdevelopment of certain
sections of the zone ,forth,
modernization and secularism and
fifth religious differences.
All these systematically accounted
for the allocation of victory slots by
native itself to ACN, CPC (Congress
for Progressive Change) in the North
and largely to Peoples Democratic
party (PDP) whose awesome
machinery of government in power
was highly deployed to carry
majority votes in the hemisphere in
spite of its non- northern
presidential candidate. To that extent
President Jonathan Victory in the
north is an innovation and tangible
political value in the African political
system and behavior .The
unthinkability of such in the past is
why it is viewed with high
skepticism in certain quarters.
This is , however , an apparently
political development that need to be
sustained in the future, if not then
the victory is not only pyrrhic but
also shrouded with skepticism in
want of evidence. For a nationality
that has been historically
traumatized in the federation their
son’s quest to the presidency of the
same federation or federated entity
that below off their rising stars and
freedom fighters in the bid to
subdue and conquer them ,this
would be an opportunity ad destiny
too costly to lose in the absence of
unalloyed solidarity.
Hence victory for president Jonathan
and PDP in the south- south zone is
both a historical and political
ideology as well as a pro-active
response to be Niger–Delta question
in contemporary Nigerian politics. It
also represents a minority protest in
the body politics which earned the
president victory in the northern
middle belt of Nigeria. The election
results in the south-east displayed
on amorphous character except in
the presidential election where the
zone alliance was drumbeated and
based on president Jonathan having
an Igbo cultural influence.
Unlike the south –west the south
east political behavior is the most
uncertain, incoherent and
inconsistent simply because it lacks
intellectual ,ideological and political
leadership with a vision that unites
the people of the zone. Without the
victory of APGA in the Imo- state
gubernatorial election the essence of
the party would have melted out of
the Nigeria politics and in south east
political consciousness. Yet true to
Igbo republican stance ship is the
emerging political truth: voting along
personality determination and not
along party determination which eat
across the south-east and which
lexically and essentially determined
who won in Imo state gubernatorial
race.
One lesson political observers and
policy makers should hold grip of is
the emerging political pluralization
with its accompanying citizenry
sensitivity to national and economic
issues. This is the highest stage,
although not the last or necessary
stage in Nigeria’s political
emancipation where citizens are
radically becoming less conscious of
separation or which ethnic group
picks the presidential slot.
Every post election experience is
enough to yield deductively
adequate data and information for
an in-depth analysis of global scales.
Good governance and justice is
proactive to stemming out
corruption and hunger, the pillars of
violence in general. Political reforms
that hinges on stamping out
ethicism, religious bigotry and
corruption is the spring board for a
genuine economic reform that
ensures general social and legal
justice in the society where the
primary goods of human dignity
and citizenship are embroidered by
the aesthetics of law, culture and
good governance.
The entire north has since failed to
be united by a common ideology
because of the rise of down trodden
and minority empires ,second,
northern ruling elites and the
detractors ,third, misgiving against
the underdevelopment of certain
sections of the zone ,forth,
modernization and secularism and
fifth religious differences.
All these systematically accounted
for the allocation of victory slots by
native itself to ACN, CPC (Congress
for Progressive Change) in the North
and largely to Peoples Democratic
party (PDP) whose awesome
machinery of government in power
was highly deployed to carry
majority votes in the hemisphere in
spite of its non- northern
presidential candidate. To that extent
President Jonathan Victory in the
north is an innovation and tangible
political value in the African political
system and behavior .The
unthinkability of such in the past is
why it is viewed with high
skepticism in certain quarters.
This is , however , an apparently
political development that need to be
sustained in the future, if not then
the victory is not only pyrrhic but
also shrouded with skepticism in
want of evidence. For a nationality
that has been historically
traumatized in the federation their
son’s quest to the presidency of the
same federation or federated entity
that below off their rising stars and
freedom fighters in the bid to
subdue and conquer them ,this
would be an opportunity ad destiny
too costly to lose in the absence of
unalloyed solidarity.
Hence victory for president Jonathan
and PDP in the south- south zone is
both a historical and political
ideology as well as a pro-active
response to be Niger–Delta question
in contemporary Nigerian politics. It
also represents a minority protest in
the body politics which earned the
president victory in the northern
middle belt of Nigeria. The election
results in the south-east displayed
on amorphous character except in
the presidential election where the
zone alliance was drumbeated and
based on president Jonathan having
an Igbo cultural influence.
Unlike the south –west the south
east political behavior is the most
uncertain, incoherent and
inconsistent simply because it lacks
intellectual ,ideological and political
leadership with a vision that unites
the people of the zone. Without the
victory of APGA in the Imo- state
gubernatorial election the essence of
the party would have melted out of
the Nigeria politics and in south east
political consciousness. Yet true to
Igbo republican stance ship is the
emerging political truth: voting along
personality determination and not
along party determination which eat
across the south-east and which
lexically and essentially determined
who won in Imo state gubernatorial
race.
One lesson political observers and
policy makers should hold grip of is
the emerging political pluralization
with its accompanying citizenry
sensitivity to national and economic
issues. This is the highest stage,
although not the last or necessary
stage in Nigeria’s political
emancipation where citizens are
radically becoming less conscious of
separation or which ethnic group
picks the presidential slot.
Every post election experience is
enough to yield deductively
adequate data and information for
an in-depth analysis of global scales.
Good governance and justice is
proactive to stemming out
corruption and hunger, the pillars of
violence in general. Political reforms
that hinges on stamping out
ethicism, religious bigotry and
corruption is the spring board for a
genuine economic reform that
ensures general social and legal
justice in the society where the
primary goods of human dignity
and citizenship are embroidered by
the aesthetics of law, culture and
good governance.
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