Why Jonathan Must Be Re-Elected – America And Europe Can Not Dictate To Us – Part 3

 Why are Nigerians so indifferent?

We have so much wallowed in indifference that we are often taken as fools or worse still as toys with which several assumed leaders who care only about their pockets satiate their private fantasies.

We pretend not to know what our foreign friends who have conscience say about us when we package and deodorize expired rulers such as Buhari as change agent in this time and age.

An invidious international dimension to the conspiracy has just been
revealed. There is an international plot by some aggrieved Western nations including Britain and the United States to cause confusion and disaffection in Nigeria.

Some elements in these countries have been having series of nocturnal meetings with Nigerian opposition leaders outside the country to force a regime change in the country.

Their grouse with President Jonathan comes from the fact that
the Nigerian leader has laboured so hard to prevent them from
freely looting our crude oil and the economy as they have always done.

This bad belly against the Jonathan administration springs from the fact that due largely to the high cost of doing business with them and their disdain for Nigerians, the Jonathan government has chosen to associate with the Chinese as equal partners in bi -lateral trade and
investment.

It is this that has caused some disgruntled elements in the international community to gun for regime change in Nigeria despite Jonathan’ s spectacular performance in office.

For them, an aged dictator who would allow them free hand to loot the oil without respect for its owners is better than a young performing President who will not allow them free reign over the nation’s resources.

This is, indeed, the heart of the matter.

Another member of this conspiracy ring is former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Jonathan ’s estranged god -father who recently abandoned the ruling Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) in a most shameful display of ingratitude to the party that gave him the ticket to misrule Nigeria for eight miserable years.

For him, Jonathan must go because the latter has refused to allow him have back his aborted third term bid by dictating to him what to do.

These are the dimensions the conspiracy has assumed. While we must ignore Obasanjo for his lack of tact and colour, all patriotic Nigerians should summon the courage to tell the Americans that every nation on the face of the earth reserves the right to choose her friends and trade partners.

Those familiar with America’s power politics on the international scene know that it operates the stick -and -carrots approach.

It is only unfortunate that some educated Nigerians, especially of the opposition clan , who have now subscribed to the politics of “ stomach infrastructure”, have forgotten to situate the United States’ viciously self -serving and ruthlessly selfish foreign policy.

As far as Americans are concerned, anything, no matter how disruptive or destructive of another country’ s sovereignty, is deemed permissible and legitimate in pursuit of America ’ s national interests.

This is therefore not the time for us to fold our alms and watch our dear country being violated and humiliated by local schemers and their foreign collaborators as the conspiracy lasts.

Our overwhelming support for Jonathan and his victory in the March 28 Presidential election will guarantee our total liberation as an independent people.

• Dr. Ojiakor wrote in from Abuja.