By Banji 0jewale
One day in the very near future,
naysayers of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency are
going to be confronted with the greatest and indisputable evidence of their error and ignorance: the aircraft in which they
travel to take care of their vast business empire straddling the length and
breadth of Nigeria and sometimes across our shores will be handled by pilots
trained under the Amnesty scheme of the Jonathan Administration! When their
jets and helicopters would have flown safely through the turbulence of the sky
and landed to the applause of both the passengers and loved ones waiting to
receive them at well-lit airports maintained by electricians including trainees of the Amnesty school, the critics would be humbled by a
numbing reality: Jonathan isn’t “clueless” after all!
*President Jonathan
But it is not only in that field the
president has confounded his captious compatriots. In education he has become
the first president of Nigeria
to address the vexatious issue of federal
universities being the exclusive preserve of some states. By causing the
establishment of nine of such institutions in the states that had none,
Jonathan has ensured that each state in Nigeria now has at least one
federal university either in existence or under actual construction.