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The truth is that Jonathan was a desperate, unrelieved disaster. Four more years of his weak, venal leadership would have been indistinct from what we're witnessing now. It was his disastrously incompetent presidency that cursed Nigeria with a Buhari succession. Buhari's unexampled electoral triumph in 2015 was not so much an endorsement of him as it was a repudiation of Jonathan.
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I couldn't agree more with this and like you said, Professor Kperogi, not only have many people forgotten this, but the veritable Jonathanians have so adamantly romanticized his regime that they make "amnesia" seem like such an understatement. Now we hear concocted lies about how Jonathan was so much better— partly because even the non-Jonathanians have also chosen to forget. I shake my head in disgust.
And by the way, I listened to you on the Inspiration FM station in Nigeria last Sunday on Edmund Obilo's program, defending your column of last week, calling for credible leadership. I think it does not take a seer to see that Nigeria is very far from credible leadership with the problems of followership that you have highlighted this week.
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