"There is no doubt that people are bitter with Jonathan, who is now a lame-duck president. He has lost the trust and respect of the millions of Nigerians, who turned out in their numbers to elect him. Neither does he wield much influence among his cabinet or within his own party, the PDP. The tragedy of Jonathan is that the Nigerian system enthrones wimps as rulers. But once they assume office, they undergo instant apotheosis. They can hire the most skilled, if mercenary and unprincipled, spin doctors and propagandist to represent their foibles as the acts of philosophers. Unfortunately when you put a man in high office far above the capacity of his intellect and the integrity of his character, you create a vicious, power-mongering, and psychologically unstable ruler. All he knows how to do is abuse his position and power to aggrandize himself and his cronies. Pathological lust for power has rendered presidential leadership prostrate. The president must stop and think just where the country is headed. The slogan of vision 20-2020 remains a huge joke, a wild and idle prediction of the economy by 2020 on the global scale. 2020 is seven short years away and it would require purposeful leadership to make that dream come close."
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:59:14 +0000