Why Jonathan Must Be Re-Elected – America And Europe Can Not Dictate To Us – Part 1

Written by Dr. Okafor

For those who have a profound appreciation of power and its most penetrating insight as well, the fact of the matter, as the Italians once succinctly put it, is that power cannot be wrested from
President Goodluck Jonathan no matter the paradigm one uses without certain attributes by the group or individual that jockeys after it.

Popularized as the Three Cs in political parlance, any group that earnestly seeks power must be cohesive. It must be coherent. And it must be conspiratorial.

 In an attempt to wrest power from President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, even before the Senate’ s Doctrine of Necessity following the untimely death of President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua, some hawks have tried to employ certain machinations including coercion and brigandage to humiliate him from the pinnacle of power.

Few Nigerians have been so persistently, so perversely and so tenaciously maligned in the folklore of our political evolution.

Even before Yar’Adua was officially pronounced dead, there was cataclysm in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) arising from the sharp division between defenders of entrenched interests who insisted that the North must retain power and those who insisted that the sanctity of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria must supervene.

That is where Jonathan ’s problem started.