Of Jonathan and The E- Presidency.

By Olusesan Ogunyooye (@sesansoulmate)

An eye that will last a life time does not emit cataract at infancy – Yoruba Proverb

I simply don’t understand this noise about the absence of Mr. President and his ‘diplomatic’ duties at Rio, Brazil. Why should anyone care about his where about? Why do we make Mr. President feel we miss him? We do not, at least I don’t: except the condolence messages came a little late and I certainly miss the rage that runs through me when he makes those unintelligible statements; knowing well that he knows he does not mean the promises.   

Seriously, Nigerians should not be those who border about Jonathan’s where about. It should be his cohorts. His presence at home makes no significant difference, except that the condolence messages may be spot on. So who cares if he begins a world tour from Brazil?

The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku said the President can rule from anywhere. He explained that he is in constant touch with the country almost on hourly bases. Bravo! That is e-presidency. Isn’t it? We should have known. He was first a facebook cum Tweeter President before we gave him a country. So why do we border if he rules via airwaves?  Security and welfare of Nigerians are on his face book page; why look for it in Kaduna? My concern however is that four years after U.S elections, President Obama’s Tweeter handle is still very active; but President Jonathan’s is dead. Rono and Reuben Abati’s cannot even stand the rage.

I read Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN’s statement chronicling presidents and leaders who have abandoned diplomatic trips to attend to urgent national matters. But the ACN missed this logic: those heads of governments returned to their countries because there were strategic solutions and their presence will make a lot of difference. But in the case of our President, why do we crave to have him home? To show apathy and sensitivity? My foot!

All the attacks on citizens of this country, except those of the past few days, have happened under the very nose of President Jonathan; so why do we want him in the country?  He knows his presence will make no difference – at least if he lies to everyone, not himself. So let his Rio ‘adventure’ serves as face-saving: for it is only in Nigeria that terrorists tell the government where and how they will strike and they will make good their promise.

I think I believe and Trust Boko Haram more than my government; that is why I will stay away from the north until this “bloody June” is over.  Let him stay in Rio and learn how to govern a country. Also let the Brazilian government learn from his impeccable resume of failure; how not to govern a country.

For me Nigerians should do more than talking. Leave the President alone and think of approaches to solve our common problem. We obviously don’t need a government, what we need is a movement.  Let me state that with the spate of violence in the country, 2015 will be too far to act. Nigeria is no more at the brinks; It is a failed state. She manifests all the characteristics of a failed state.

So the focus is not just on how to ‘send’ PDP out of power, it should be how to purge our nation of political profiteers – the swindlers. Those who auction our collective joy. Who slaughter unity on the altar of self aggrandizement. Those who make this nation big for nothing before the world and reverse it calendar by their works, words and deeds.

I do not speak of idle theories, I speak of practice!

I am @sesansoulmate.