By Matts Udoaka
It is unfortunate that Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian charismatic leader
who supposes this second time around, to have an easy walk into the State House
in Aso Rock, is in the web of blistering logjam and utter confusion from his Party,
the PDP. Our President in his secured official residence does not understand
that it is not all the glittering things are gold. Many are fake flying
materials that deceive men to believe that they are gold.
Despite the leverage in his performance over his predecessors, both
military and civilian, despite his short period of delivery of the dividends of
democracy to Nigerians, even though with his minor shortcomings as a human
being, the President is dwelling in delusion, since he cannot decipher his real
followers who actually want his success, from the imaginary ones who are mere
actors that believe in what they can get than the corporate success of the
ruling Party. The President maybe living in fools’ paradise if he actually
claims that all the states in the south-south region are solidly behind him. Of
course, having such a deceptive mind is very common with leaders who do not pin
down their ears to listen to what transpires in different strata of the polity.
Akwa Ibom State is one of the states of the federation that wouldn’t
allow the second coming of President Goodluck Jonathan to slip out of its
fingers. Their common sentient of having a minority brother in the saddle of
governance that in the past was winners take all situation, and a no go area
reserved for the majority alone is enough to commit the Akwa Ibom people to use
their heads to walk because of joy. Therefore, it is a sad commentary to recall
that the state is divided against itself in its support to President Jonathan.
The unity of Akwa Ibom State that has been historic is now a bye gone memory
because the political gladiators in the state do not know a jot of what
democracy is all about. They have failed to realize that the labyrinth dancer
does not tell the story of his back, that it is only the onlooker who can tell.
Akwa Ibom people have come to terms with the rotational principle of
the PDP at last. They have all decided to work together for the benefit of a
single candidate from Eket Senatorial District. But one thing that over shadows
their unity of purpose in this regard is that the game players have refused to
drop the game on the table for the elements of democracy to recourse. What is politics? Is it not compromising and flexibility?
If our people have refused to compromise is our house seen to be in
order for us to accept that all is well? It is the compromise that is lacking
in the midst of the Akwa Ibom people, and that keeps their house in tatters.
Every component of grievance is handled with reckless arrogance. The state and
the country are not considered first by an Akwa Ibom man. Then what brings
about the expected resounding victory
for the President and the ruling party in the state? This is an illusion. It’s
a charade that in the circumstance, some highly placed men keep deceiving the President. What is better is
for Jonathan to beware and avoid every Akwa Ibom man, especially those who
pursue their personal interest more than that of the nation, no matter how highly
placed. Anything short of that will hand in regret to Jonathan. This is
unfortunate for the country.
That is the beginning of the misfortune of the ruling Party, which is
the beginning of the woes of Goodluck Jonathan. The President and the PDP chieftains
cannot afford to treat the dangling sword of Damocles hanging about the Akwa
Ibom neck with levity. The stakes are
high, and very high indeed. It is no more time of noise making, as time of
reality is now. What will be the end as the opposition has started their actual
campaign in earnest? The President and the team of Party men must not allow the
ills of a few people to affect Akwa Ibom State, as one weak link on a chain
affects all the parts. The people of Akwa Ibom State are on a cross road. Tongues
are wagging highly now for the misdeed of a few. The state is really losing out
as a result of personal ambition that is being pursued in total disregard to
politics as a game of numbers.
Even though we might be relying on irregularities that used to see us
presenting fake figures as the vote cast, this faking is always controlled by
human beings who put in their all to ensure that the fake becomes the real.
Rather, in a prevailing circumstance as of now, most of those who
normally stand up for PDP to succeed are aggrieved because their favoured
candidates are not given a level playing field to test their popularity.
Everyone develops a cold feet because they observe the situation as being
abnormal; and when two elephants engage themselves in a duel, the grass becomes
the object that takes the heat. What our State political gladiators are doing
will bring a sad tale on Jonathan’s chances if not handled with care.
The concern we all lament for, is that the President is not being told
the truth by our people. I don’t see Jonathan choosing to allow what is not
acceptable generally by the people to become a sort of confusion that divides
the loyalty of the people that were one way for him. The Akwa Ibom boat is now
heading for the rock. A lot of calculation needs to be done to arrive at an
acceptable solution to the logjam in Akwa Ibom State. Otherwise, the PDP would
have itself to blame for not handling the state with the wisdom it deserves.
…Nigeria’s Ceded Land By
Obasanjo
Having said that much, it is irking to still fold our arms to allow
the Cameroonians to cease our land (Bakassi) to themselves due to Obasanjo’s
inept legal team led by Prince Bola Ajigbola. A few days ago, the Cameroonians
were celebrating their victory of Bakassi land over Nigeria. A land they do not
have. Here in Nigeria, our government celebrates the Green Tree Agreement in
place of our bonafide land on yearly basis. Bakassi is at our backyard at
Enwang. The distance from Bakassi to Cameroun is farer than going from Enwang.
The former President Obasanjo, who always claim to know everything much did not
do a thorough home work to convince the Europeans who are having the exclusive
knowledge of their environment to know that the Bakassi land is a delta
environment between Akwa Ibom and Cross River State. What the Presidency should
do now is to exhume that case and pursue it with vigor to its logical
conclusion. No green Tree Agreement should blindfold Nigeria into allowing the Cameroons
to claim our lands from all the angles. Jonathan would do much to engage a team
of lawyers from abroad and home, to study and know how that case would end if
exhumed. Where a Nigerian land was ceded to another country by another
President, Obasanjo could have written a book on his wisdom and the foolishness
of that President. We want an action from Jonathan now that Obasanjo is still
alive to show the world that Obasanjo’s wisdom is a nullity to that of any
President he does not regard.
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