Nigeria is one of the few countries that would vote in a man who after almost two decades in the helm of affairs would come around, put a bowler hat on a black traditional wear and declare, ‘I had no shoes.’ To us it seems the wise counsel of one of my acquaintance, who was contesting for the post of a Hall Chair in my university makes no sense; the said acquaintance reasoned during the Hall debates, ‘don’t ask a politician what he will do, he might lie, ask him what he has done and you will know who he is’. Unfortunately, in 2011, when Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, contested, we did not bother to ask him how he had spent his 19 years of service as an Assistant Director of OMPADEC (Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission), deputy governor, governor, vice president and president. We did not bother, the fever was infectious, the dreams were high, his good luck was desiring, the air was fresh and breathtaking and he was a ‘god-fearing’ man. So, we refused to harken to our father’s words, we refused to judge the man by the work of his hands and en masse, sans rigging, the gentleman from Otuoke became the President and Commander in chief of the armed forces.

However, recent happenings, have taught us and the man who occupies one of the most influential seats in Africa that a large chair does not make a king, to say the least the President has not been ‘kingly’ in any of his activities. In spite of the numerous failures that have trailed the administration of the incumbent president, it is rather unfortunate that the Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology still seeks a second term. The biggest fish in the large Nigerian administrative aqua has refused to see that the river in which it swims is gradually de-watered by corruption, insecurity and other agents. It is even worse that President Jonathan has made an enemy of those who point out the weaknesses in his sense of judgment but the man from whose head lice have been removed shouldn’t be ungrateful?

The child that will sell the family’s property is known from childhood, every time I think of another four years of a Jonathan presidency, the duo of Mr Fix Nigeria andWendell Smith comes to mind, not only have these two disappointed the young generation by churning out blatant and stupid lies about the progress of this administration they have stifled the voices of reasoning. I imagine the enormous power these two will wield by 2019 supposing President Jonathan wins another term. These two and other youths who are enjoying from the present windfall will not only have earned millions to step into the shoes of the existing corrupt politicians they will also have the power of religion on their sides to cajole Nigerians into doing their biddings. The ‘Rome was not built in a day’ and ‘e go better’ maxims will then sell well like Iya Femi’s Akara on a Ramadan evening.