REMEMBERING JONATHAN
By; Prince Bawa Joe Cahange was nothing but a chimera sold by snake oil salesmen and saleswomen. We were warned, by those who feared, that embracing the chimera would be a disastrously wrong turn on our road to democratic progression. They had seen through the smokes-and-mirror agenda of the All Progressives Congress, APC. But their voices were drowned out by sonic boom of the propaganda machine wielded so effectively by the leading opposition party. The APC’s rallying mantra was “Anybody but Jonathan”. That is President Goodluck Jonathan, a gentleman leader whose disposition wasn’t suited for the do-or-die politics that deforms our nascent democracy. APC’s desperate ambition to take over power was fuelled by the naive complicity of a large proportion of the public. Most Nigerians, especially those who ought to have been more discerning, freely rented their brains to the snake oil merchants. Muhammadu Buhari, who was selected to front the change, had previously lost three presidential ...