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Nigeriaworld, (This day / All Africa global media by means of COMTEX) – “He hit the soil running.” that’s how a good friend captured the dynamism with which Goodluck Jonathan finally took business office as president of Nigeria after a rather extended characterized by innuendo and suspense. He added, “This is contrary for the expectations of particular interests which had supplied him a weak leader.” Indeed, we must say he has proved beyond a reasonable doubt all but a lame duck president.
Without doubt, given his physical appearance – a politician soft-spoken gentleman who comes across more like a college surprise politician robust circumstance of Nigeria – one may be forgiven for doubting whether this man (who his name, “Goodluck, has virtually turned out to be an omen true) might be capable to defy the world upside of Nigerian politics and move on to successfully direct this nation rather complex.
A nation of many different, occasionally violently conflicting socio-economic cleavages, political, religious and ethnic groups, Nigeria is certain to be a nightmare occasionally horrible to even the leader in the heart of the lion. We have observed repeatedly that sadly perform in our country’s tumultuous five decades in the nation. We have observed elsewhere patriotic, courageous, conscientious and cheerful men who walked in governance with the most effective intentions of these corridors leave little far better than red carpet disgraced, broken, rogues. The sweet lure of kleptomania, self-aggrandizement and nepotism, the strong attraction towards tribal and religious chauvinism, etc. – these are the pitfalls crowded, sinister and odd paths dog men of power at all levels of government in this country.
Therefore, when the modest Dr. Goodluck Jonathan arrived for the authority position, many specialists have predicted a authority style dull and colorless. This was specially because he has maintained a stoic silence and calm inside face of intrigue and cover-ups that characterized the period of time from hospitalization for the sad finish in the then President Yar’adua. This reluctance bold inside face of these insidious machinations in the cabal itself, which held the nation captive in the time, was regarded as cowardice or political naivete. But, as we shall soon see, not only proved that equality proverbial “golden silence,” President Jonathan has proved the cynics wrong he produced a sort of calm and measured powerful dynamism to bear on governance and politics inside country.