President Jonathan Dances
by Dr. Peregrino Brimah
The things happening in Nigeria are above
Jonathan. There is little question about this. It
would be very unlikely the president was behind
the attempted assassinations of ex-head of state
General Buhari and Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi.
Nigeria�s president does not appear to be such
a dangerous and desperate risk taker.
The coordinated assassinations of three of Sheikh
Zakzaky�s sons in the same Kaduna the same
week, aimed to provoke a Muslim revolt, also do
not seem to have been ordered by the president.
The cards are stacked up against him, but not yet
to push him to these very dangerous methods. He
still enjoys dancing.
Someone else has now taken over of the Nigerian
military and the Boko Haram franchise and is set
on leading Nigeria off the cliff.
Some suspect the president�s wife. There is
precedence here. Patience Jonathan is known for
her crude and cold recklessness�
Analysts say she could have felt so bitter about
the person of Buhari, a most prominent and
respected opposition figure and decided to order
his elimination. They say she could order the new
trends in military brutality inflicted on the Islamic
movement in Kaduna and to the newspapers
recently when they were impeded and the
presidency dissociated itself from the military
action. The role of the president of Nigeria�s
wife in the current events cannot however be
independently verified.
It could also be foreign elements who have finally
and fully taken control of the vacuum in power.
Sheikh Zakzaky unambiguously laid the blame on
foreign elements in the deliberate assassination of
his three sons. It is important at this time to
appreciate the extreme patient nature of his
millions of members Muslim movement. They are
globally known for extreme patience and tolerance
in the face of persecution; had it been any other
religious or ethnic group that witnessed three of
its leader�s sons murdered extra-judicially, the
chaos would have already started.
What is clear in Nigeria today is that things are
now completely out of hand. Boko Haram is
having a field day as the military is not serious �
as US hearing noted � in defeating the terrorist
group. Boko Haram continues to obtain its
vehicles and arsenal from the military. The
military has set on a full scale assault on the
masses and civil groups. Political Boko Haram
has totally gone out of hand and is bent on
creating tensions between Nigeria�s ethnic and
religious groups and instigating a full scale
national conflict and anarchy. Jonathan is no
longer in control of the military and has no handle
on the state of insecurity. The nation is now on
autopilot and headed to the ditches.
As a people, our sheepishness and crap-tolerance
� or better put, crap-exuberance, some waiting
and hoping to survive till 2015 believing in a
political salvation and a peaceful transition or
continuation of whatever the result is, and others
simply accepting this destiny, not realizing that a
leadership entrenched and absorbed in only one
thing � embezzling billions of available
petrodollars � is bound for total disastrous
collapse, has led us to the end of the road.
The good news is � Cameroon is now involved.
With Cameroon being personally affected and
under direct threat of Boko Haram, there will be
some direct regional pressure on the Nigerian
�leadership,� to finally stop tolerating and
facilitating Boko Haram terror and take actual
steps to contain the menace.
Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]
Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian
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