By Erasmus Ikhide
By Monday next week – to be precise – the canoe-carver-born former
university teacher would have bitten the dust. Results of the
presidential election would have humbled him. It would be the heaviest
political fall from grace to grass where he was wrath primitively on the
luckless nation. If he wins by default, through deceitful manipulation
of the poll or announcing himself as the winner of the election, he
would have succeeded in manipulating Nigeria out of herself, in the same
token.
The relief of President Goodluck Ebele “Azikiwe” Jonathan’s exit from
the nation’s top job would be profound in many ways. If he loses, it
would mean that the nation’s democracy has attained some appreciable
level of liberal maturation. It will explain that the country’s
democratic experiment has taken the will of the electorate into account.
It will also give credence to the fact that the era of deploying
dollars to buy people’s votes is over. It would again means that no
criminally corrupt government as Mr. Jonathan’s will ever force itself
on the nation, indefinitely.
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