CRITICAL REASONS GOODLUCK JONATHAN SHOULD BE REELECTED IN 2015: 1 THE TEARING DOWN OF THE OLD EVIL ORDER

Since the demise of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the Nigerian polity has been at the boiling point.  Immediately it became apparent that constitutional provisions conferred upon Vice President Goodluck Jonathan the right to be sworn as President of Nigeria, red hot cannonballs were fired especially from the Northern political elite.  First, they tried to ensure that President Yar’Adua though dead, should continue to rule through the voice of his wife.  They tried to ensure that Yar’Adua though dead, lived on.

President Jonathan(l) and former President Obasanjo(r)

Photo Credit: Punch Newspapers

When the game plan of the Northern political elite and Mrs. Yar’Adua failed and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan became President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, a decree immediately went out of the mouth of Northern political leaders that he dares not hope or attempt to contest in 2011 as the North would need to complete their own two terms by having another Northerner stand for election under the platform of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) which then was and I fear even now still is the only platform through which one could be elected president in Nigeria.

Goodluck Jonathan, whose good luck turned the Northern dream into a tough luck and pipe dream, seemed set to rubbish the old order from the beginning of his political career.  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, acting as a god pulled his devious political weight behind Jonathan.  Being no god, Obasanjo could not see that Goodluck Jonathan meant bad luck for tin and pocket gods that have ruined this country since independence. 

Given his background and his rather meteoric rise to power and how easily he has dispensed with tin gods around Nigerian body polity, we find one of the reasons why Jonathan should be reelected in 2015.

JONATHAN LIKE DAVID

In the Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian bible, we learn about David and Jonathan.  They were close friends.  Jonathan saved David many times when the King Saul sought to take his life.  David in his clumsiness, using a piece of stone and sling, slew Goliath who was the tormentor of the people of Israel. 

Let us see President Goodluck Jonathan as the young and clumsy David who destroyed an old order whereby the Jews were in perpetual dread of the Philistines.  Jonathan has destroyed the godfathers.  When Dr. Chris Ngige did the same thing to the godfathers of Anambra State, we all applauded him.  Why can’t we applaud President Jonathan for achieving the same thing at the Federal level?

King David ruled Israel into a good old age and was a great king and prophet among his people.  David in spite of his clumsy ways and sin continued to be the man after the heart of God because he served his people well.  David did not go to war to take other people's land for Israel.  He defended them well in the place they acquired on arrival and led them to prosperity within their own enclave. President Jonathan in spite of our doubts about him at present has continued to state that though he is presently the most criticized President of Nigeria; he would also end up as the most praised.  

What he has done in dispensing the godfathers and in other sectors which we would periscope in this blog in the coming weeks make him the type of King that David was among his people.  So, if God could forgive David, why should we not forgive President Jonathan any sins while applauding the great feats which he has achieved and is still working on in changing the political landscape of Nigeria.

I strongly feel that in Goodluck Jonathan is the Jonathan of the bible recompensed for his loyalty and for saving of the life of the young David who later became the King of Israel, bringing that country so much glory.

So, for being a Ghost-buster, who lack of sophistry to play the politics of chop-I-chop with godfathers and guts to stand up to the godfathers, the Nigerian youth owe President Goodluck Jonathan the duty of ensuring that he had enough tenure to deepen the freedom of the people from the clutches of godfathers and enemies of Nigeria.

Think about it.