By Ray Ekpu
The crowd that is chanting Run, Jonathan, Run is a composite contingent made up of greedy and hungry fellows, rented fellows, political flunkeys of the basest type and those who think that Nigeria may be ready for any kind of political tomfoolery at this time.
*Jonathan
Ordinarily, a man who had risen from the position of a Deputy
Governor, Governor, Vice President to the apex of his country’s administration,
the presidency, ought to be happy that he had done, without being harmed, a
marathon that most Nigerians only dream about.
In that case, he would be expected to play only the role of a statesman who would seek to contribute his ideas to the resolution of his country’s and continent’s existential problems, some of which had haunted his country since the days that he grew up in his village without the adornment of even the cheapest pair of shoes. Now he is in a position to acquire the most expensive pair of designer shoes ever made.
