In this post-modern age, Little Lord Fauntleroy or His Master's Voice Lord Doyin Okupe himself telling some poet or songster that he may not use this or that word that's deliberately employed to approximate reality or fantasy, will only have such a decree falling on deaf ears...
The sad fact is that sycophants (of whatever damn tribal or ethnic ilk) will be sycophants will be sycophants and will continue to be sycophants
In that last BBC interview Goodluck Jonathan uttered his famous last words - wholly mistaken in his calculation, fully underestimating the resoluteness of the Nigerian people – that they would soon be kicking him out of office and that's why he "prophesied" that he would be re-elected (that his party was organised nationwide whereas Mr. Buhari's APC was "only popular in certain places")
In darkest Africa, Goodluck Jonathan is certainly not the first person to be defeated or to concede defeat in all humility - Solomon Berewa who was Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's SLPP crown prince also tasted the bitter ashes at the hands of the APC's Ernest Bai Koroma in 2007 and in that case too, thanks to the integrity of Christiana Thorpe - Sierra Leone's equivalent of Attahiru Jega – she too was able to stand her ground and resist the sort of pressure brought to bear on her by the sort of disgruntled people, the clients of whatever incumbent party who refuse to submit to the nation's popular will expressed through the ballot box...
Hopefully, the biometric voting system that has proved so successful in Nigeria – at whatever cost - will soon be introduced in other African countries, to ensure accurate voter registration and the integrity of the electoral outcomes wherever elections are held in Africa...
On a personal note, as a result of Muhammadu Buhari's new direction I intend to return to Nigeria soon - most probably to Western Nigeria (Ogun) or to the North (Kaduna) - often, to do what little I can and the watchword here too is " Yes, we can!"
Cornelius
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