Is good luck running out on Jonathan?

President Goodluck Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan’s inability to stand tough on critical matters or cleverness to navigate the political waters is causing his vulnerability to drift to the shores.  He has evidently extended the frontiers in the evolution of the nation’s political system.  He may have taken the nation to the top of the mountain.  But his exasperation shows he does not have the wherewithal to cross it to the Promised Land.  Corruption is still endemic.  Boko Haram is still raging.  Regionalism is rearing to the fore.

The President often states publicly that he supports wealth creation in response to his approach to the havoc of corruption.  This may indicate his insensibility.  He may be suffering from bureaucratic hangover, the symptom of overexposure to corruption.  He is like one wearing a fabric woven with smeared threads and for him to remove the dirt will strip him naked of power and close allies.  He is in a crucial position to fight corruption with the same gravity the military is fighting Boko Haram.  One can see the casualties of the war on insurrection sadly but political bandits are freely roaming the high places.

The genesis of the Boko Haram insurgency can hardly be divorced from the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party.  Who can forget the famous statement by a political bigwig about making the country ungovernable?  He has been unable to reconcile with the North who feels aggrieved on the rotation of the presidency within the party.  Jonathan’s ambition to be President requires the theoretical brilliance of Einstein to yield a political success.  Meanwhile, the country is bound by a burning desert fire that he cannot quell.

Glitzy mansions are springing up like mushrooms in the Niger Delta region and one doubts if they are being built by the inept Niger Delta Development Commission.  Most Nigerians suspect that the source of the wealth is from oil theft.  Incidentally, the President takes the posture of Buddha and watches the scandal in a transcendental bliss.  It is understandable that he is in a precarious position being a son of the region.  Democracy demands the use of political process to balance the distribution of the nation’s natural resources.

Events are unfolding in the polity that may put the piloting of the affairs of the nation on the fast track.  The crumbling of PDP may be a blessing in disguise for the nation’s democracy.  Nigerians appreciate the structural changes by the current administration.  One cannot take for granted the sanity in the banking system for example.  There is a euphoric shift in the political wind. Let the bright lights shine for the people to see.