Thursday, 17 May 2012
The Nigerian Presidency: Assault With A Deadly Weapon By Pius Adesanmi
Pius Adesanmi
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Pius Adesanmi Americans love to describe their president as the most powerful man on the face of the earth largely because of their ignorance of the omnipotence of the Nigerian presidency. In Nigeria, we have been able to perfect a travesty of Federalism which gives the head of the Executive arm of government powers unheard of over the state, over ALL other arms of government, and, over the constitution, and, above all, over the life of the citizen. The Nigerian presidency has powers to decide whether you live or die. The American presidency has no such powers. The Nigerian presidency can decide whether you die alone or you go as part of a pogrom or mini-pogrom. The American presidency has no such powers.
The Nigerian presidency’s post-civil war pogroms on unarmed civilians includes Umuechem, Odi, Zaki Biam, Agge, and Gbaramatu kingdom. The American presidency does not have the power to order air strikes on American civilians on American soil. The White House cannot wipe out an entire county. Babangida destroyed Umuechem, Obasanjo leveled Odi, Yar’Adua ordered air strikes on Gbaramatu kingdom. In America, they would be doing life without the option of parole by now. Yar’Adua’s family would be lobbying for a posthumous pardon, which may come more than a century after his crime.
If Louis XIV stopped at “L’état, c’est moi”, the Nigerian presidency adds the literal letter of the Yoruba monarchical philosophy to that once upon a time aberration of the French state. Because the king in Yoruba monarchy is an earthly representative of all chthonic forces, he is “alase ekeji orisha” (owner/wielder of authority, second only to the orishas); his essence is demiurgic, hence, to his subjects who are mere mortals, he is “ka bi ee si” (kabiyesi): you don’t ask him any questions because he is not accountable to you. Combine these attributes of Yoruba monarchical philosophy with Louis XIV’s travesty of the state and the result is the Nigerian presidency. I say literal letter of the Yoruba monarchical philosophy because the Yoruba were wise enough to invent checks and balances that are indissociable from the institution of kabiyesi. The Nigerian presidency has the authority of kabiyesi without the checks and balances.
I emphasize the presidency and not the president for good reason. Because our presidency is an institutionalized travesty of democracy and Federalism, no President, no matter how well-intentioned, can escape the trap of despotism because even the most routine exercise of your constitutional powers, the most mundane performance of your constitutional duties, already makes you a despot in our strange democratic dispensation. It is precisely these immense and unheard-of powers that make the Nigerian presidency extremely dangerous. In the wrong hands, the Nigerian presidency is a deadly weapon. Bad news: the Nigerian presidency has always been in the wrong hands, is currently in the wrong hands, will always be in the wrong hands unless Occupy Nigeria rises up to its historic potential by forcing a fundamental redefinition of the Nigerian project.
One paradox: as omnipotent as the Nigerian presidency is, it is almost the most vulnerable to hijack in the history of modern democracy. Because of the nature of our system and politics, there is no clean and decent way to become the President of Nigeria. You get there through an accumulation of political and other dubious IOUs to “chieftains”, “stakeholders”, “elder statesmen”, and “business cartels” whose selfish interests and private agendas are always antithetical to the common good.
Every president gets to office neck deep in political and other debts; every president gets to office a peon of the enemies of the Nigerian people; every president gets to office as a mere guarantor of the first function of the Nigerian presidency: the distribution of limitless patronage to the interests who put him there.
The Federal cabinet and the president’s coterie of personal aides are always a reflection of his loyalty to these narrow interests who only exist to defend a philosophical conceptualization of Nigeria as a national cake baked only for less than 1% of the population. When the incumbent president is sick or weak, the omnipotence of the Nigerian presidency falls into the hands personal aides, powerful ministers, and select “chieftains” and “stake holders”. Welcome to a scenario that my good friend, Patrick Obahiagbon, has recently defined as cabalocracy. That was what we had with President Yar’Adua and we need not rehash that recent history here. That is what is currently going on with Goodluck Jonathan.
What Obahiagbon failed to add to his cogent coinage is that cabalocracy transforms the Nigerian presidency into a deadly weapon in the hands of the people who hold the president hostage, misadvise him, and transform his presidency into the number one enemy of the Nigerian people. While Yar’Adua’s cession of the immense powers of the Nigerian presidency to the hijackers who surrounded him can be somewhat excused on account of his illness, three reasons account for the much-similar scenario now unfolding with the Presidency of Goodluck Jonathan: personal weakness, intellectual inferiority, pedigree deficiency.
It is no longer news that the likes of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Diezani Allison Madueke, Mohammed Adoke, on the one hand; and aides like Oronto Douglas, Reuben Abati, and even the lowly Reno Omokri whose brief is Facebook and Twitter on the other hand, are the new presidential hijackers in town. Of course, more hijackers abound in the sinewy mould. I have only limited the list to the most garrulous ones.
President Jonathan is a study in personal weakness and intellectual inferiority, never mind his alleged doctorate in zoology. Imagine the combined intellectual firepower of the incorrigible paracletes the Bretton Woods/Washington consensus theology around him: Okonjo Iweala, Allison Madueke, and Lamido Sanusi Lamido. Do you believe that a president, who cannot even successfully place one incoherent sentence after another incoherent sentence in a scripted address to the nation, can hold his own in a strategy meeting on the economy with these IMF/World Bank agents? Worse, as Dele Momodu reminds us, Iweala, Madueke, and Lamido Sanusi are aje butter kids who enjoy immense class and pedigree superiority over the shoeless kid from the backwaters of Otuoke. They intimidate him. Do you also see the President holding his own in a conversation with Reuben Abati, the latest convert to the anti-people philosophy of the Bretton Woods jihadists who have hijacked the president? Reuben Abati is a First Class product of the Arts and, until recently, one of Nigeria’s most formidable public intellectuals. Really, the President stands no chance.
It is easy to see why the aforementioned hijackers of presidential powers and initiative are extremely dangerous. In their hands, the omnipotent Nigerian presidency is a deadly weapon and the fuel subsidy removal tragedy makes all of them guilty of assault with a deadly weapon against the Nigerian people. The hijack scenario also foregrounds the necessity of a struggle to redesign and redefine the Nigerian presidency. The nightmare we experienced with the hijack of the presidency under Mr. Yar’Adua was an occasion for us to go back to the drawing board and put measures in place to forestall a reoccurrence. There should have been a process to punish the hijackers after Yar’Adua’s death. Michael Aondoakaa and all the Yar’Adua cabalocrats should have been tried and convicted for numerous offences against the Nigerian state. That would have established precedence and deterrence. That would have warned future aides and Ministers that our democratic polity is now more conscious of the nature of the advice they give to the president: that there is a price to pay for irresponsible advice.
As with all things Nigerian, we did nothing and we are now paying the price. We have a worse and more corrupt Attorney General in Mohammed Adoke who understands that Aondoakaa got away with his crimes against the Nigerian people. A vastly intellectually superior breed of hijackers has emerged and their pawn, Goodluck Jonathan, is even weaker and intellectually inferior to Yar’Adua.
Therefore, the future we envision must necessarily be one in which Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Allison Madueke, Mohammed Adoke, Labaran Maku, Lamido Sanusi Lamido, Oronto Douglas, Reuben Abati, and Reno Omokri, shall face formal consequences for their role in this national tragedy. The era of walking free after an irresponsible hijack of the presidency must be over after the current brood of hijackers. Beyond N65.00 and sundry issues, Occupy Nigeria must take a close, hard look at the Nigerian presidency. Unless that Presidency is demystified and redesigned, we will always temporarily postpone our problems.
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Found this on MSN and Im
Submitted by Ambuja Harjo (not verified) on March 28, 2012 - 02:45.
Found this on MSN and Im happy I did. Interesting article.
pedigree deficiency syndrome
Submitted by KS (not verified) on January 25, 2012 - 13:16.
Dont mind GEJ, a shoeless kid from Otuoke who decided to surround himself with ajebota kids and eggheads because he thought he now has it all. What was he thinking?? Should have looked around for people of his class instead of going through this pedigree deficiency syndrome!!
You are an Idiot
Submitted by kulkat on January 15, 2012 - 23:50.
You my friend, is an idiot. Write a resume just like Ruben if you need a job cause this is getting out of hand. I am not sure how a poet and drama teacher can contribute to Aso Rock. But hey! it has been done before and there always a room for comics. Don't forget to include all your contributions to Montreal. How you built subway sytem instead of Okada system. How you distributed a generator to every housing units. Funny how those who can not even manage their own lives know how to manage everyone else.
RE:saad ibrahim and bakare are members of th Izala Islamic sect
Submitted by ibrahim saad (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 19:42.
I KNOW HOW IT FEELS DERI, MY COMMENTS ARE REALLY HITTING YOU HARD AND BECAUSE I LEAVE NO WRIGGLE ROOM YOU LASH OUT IN YOUR CHARACTERISTIC INCOHERENT RANT. WHAT HAS BAKARE A CHRISTIAN PASTOR GOT TO DO WITH IZALA, A MUSLIM SECT? IZALA IS QUITE A BENIGN ISLAMIC GROUP WHY NOT GO A STEP FURTHER AND ACCUSE ME OF BEING A MEMBER OF BOKO HARAM? DONT YOU THINK THAT WILL BRING YOU MORE ATTENTION IN THE VILLA? YOU MAY BE CELEBRATED AS A HERO (POSSIBLE GCON!) FOR EXPOSING A FOREIGN BOKO HARAM SPONSOR. IT IS NOT FAR FETCHED IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF MEDIOCRITY AND CLUELESSNESS THAT YOUR ABORIGINE KINSMEN THRIVE IN ABUJA.
@Obibi
Submitted by Anonymous1 (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 19:25.
You must be a viper from the riverside region and must defend your water god Badluck Joe. Your people are so backward and may remain imbeciles while the rest of Nigeria carry out a revolution to remove a son of your cursed oil soil. 90% of your people are holding us back.
Rather than 'face' Pius; why not travel to Aso rock and see if you would be allowed to cross the gate? Fool! Stop living in denial. Badluck Joe is a national problem and should be chased out of office ASAP. Rubbish!
Deri the hypocrite !!!
Submitted by Kool (original) (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 18:43.
@Deri, you referred to Pius Adesanmi as "lazy intellectually but yet lost your sleep to post 15 commentaries between midnight and 4.31pm today just to neutralise what Pius wrote. A big shame !!!
Why have a sleepless night and day Deri over an article you claim to be of no value? You are a hypocrite and a man or wiman without any conscience. It looks like you have no other job than stay permamnently hooked to Sahara Reportera to perform a hatchet man's job for a fee. Nemesis will catch up with you very soon.
@Deri not-KenSaroWiwa & David West intllectually bankrupt?
Submitted by deri (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 14:31.
Similar egunje was also reported in Ado-Ekiti where some “protesters” went to Fajuyi area of the state capital with kerosene stoves and gas cookers to cook rice and fry puff-puff for the consumption of the protesters. Of, course, music was also provided to stir up the protesters. In Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory, some hoodlums were engaged to force people to force traders to close their shops during the anti-subsidy protest. N2, 000 was reportedly offered to anyone that joined those that forced the traders to close their shops.
The Foreign Dynamic
Submitted by Agbe (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 13:23.
Reuben jumped into bed with Nigerian politicians who offer the argument that no one is clean. Our politicians see what goes on abroad too. Unfortunately they take the bad aspects of the lesson. They believe that no race or society is free from corruption. In fact, they will tell you that the reason why Africa is where it is today is not due to their fault, but the global western political system which undermines Africa's development. This has inadvertently encouraged them to continue to repress the poor in our country. It also explains the callousness of the oil subsidy removal.
"Do you believe that a
Submitted by Anonymous2 (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:39.
"Do you believe that a president, who cannot even successfully place one incoherent sentence after another incoherent sentence in a scripted address to the nation, can hold his own in a strategy meeting on the economy with these IMF/World Bank agents?"
Finally, an intelligent and cogent article from this writer - different from his usual fare of oblique, comedic pieces. About time too!
@ Otile
Submitted by olusailor (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:33.
You are a complete nuisance, for you what make the Nubhead called GEJ a responsible person is because he is from ur zone, how shameless are you. May you children and generation unborn continue to be short changed like they have always been by the Hausa freaks that your think you have a grouse with, very soon you GEJ would be delivered to you "DEAD"!
they leveled and placed hausa almageris as betrayers
Submitted by IQ (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:29.
"...Babangida destroyed Umuechem, Obasanjo leveled Odi, Yar’Adua ordered air strikes on Gbaramatu kingdom..." The want to by all means foster a must one nigeria, and they eliminate a whole village and place another people overnight with the bribes they pay to the village heads and the sitting governors. that is while manipulation of election will never seize. there is no country called nigeria. it is a project and we know where it is heading to. some faces in igbo land are never supposed to bear the names they claim. some bear okonkwo and some orji and some okoro. we are washing. it is better you immigrate and change a name legally than to be a replacement of people who were killed. Portharcourt is flooded with such humano-replacement techonology of OBJ and cohorts for a must one nigeria after the elimination of some Biafrans followed by change of names of vilages...'r'umuokoro which was before umuokoro.and so on
wow
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:22.
Okay so according to you, there is a link between one's intellect and the act of mopping a floor and sweeping a room. So if I decide to get off my computer, pick a broom and sweep my sister's room I will become intellectually inferior to someone who has the luxury of a vacuum cleaner?
Moron. Olodo. Olorigbeske.
Thx a lot my broda, it is
Submitted by Eghosa Aigbe (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:17.
Thx a lot my broda, it is very sad dt only but a few knows d “truth“ and even some odas dt knows tend 2 fight against it bcos dey are god-sons 2 those thiefs dt has been benefiting frm d subsidy. While odas are anti gej govt., just bcos he is not a northerner! Subsidy removal has come 2 stay n d earlier we embrace it, d better 4 NIGERIA! Enough is enough!
Please tell me I am seeing things...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:17.
"He did not ask to be made president. Aremu used him and dumped him. You don't kill a man because he is dull."
You must be kidding me! I am in utter disbelief that I just used my eyes to behold such stupidity in words. So now, you are telling me that Jonathan was struggling and crying while he was being forcefully made the president by "Aremu" against his will?
Please get a life and a brain. As humans we have what is called "free will".
Jonathan and the rest of them.
Submitted by emeka k duru (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:13.
Added to the aforesaid,I have wondered if Former EFCC chieftain,Waziri,was right after all,that our leaders need psychiatric check up.
Our President seems to be a man trapped in his hatred of the Nigerian state resulting from his shoeless state and struggle as a boy and youth from an oil producing state.Understandable.But unconsciously this ingrained spite has contributed in holding him hostage,so much so that the only time the President comes alive is when discussing Olobiri and the first drop of oil in Nigeria.He needs help.He needs to understand that he is now the Nigerian President.It is his duty to put shoes on the feet of all Nigerian youths,educate them and champion their emancipation from class-induced hunger in the land of plenty.That is the wish of the people.He has to rise to it!!
Bastard Pius
Submitted by Obibi (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:04.
Pius Adesanmi is a legendry FOOL. Were he far from anything sane, he would not castigate in unutterable words his president.His extempore springs from a frustrated brain needying emergency evaluation.Relishing in your questionable degree how come you have not risen to anything higher than an inch.Or do you think you would be called to order with monetary inducement? Am certain you, Pius shall not live to see a better Nigeria. In the course of tearing this mended country apart your flesh shall invariably feed the hounds and crocodiles in Ikogosi river.
Charles Chima, you are a big
Submitted by Elijah (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 12:02.
Charles Chima, you are a big fool. How many times do you want them to advice Jonathan? Have you not been reading all the mountain of advice that has been offered to Jonathan in the recent months? Do you think Jonathan reads newspapers and online dailies? When a president has handed over his powers to women, what else do you expect? And when a man does not know that we lead from the heart and not from the head, who else do you blame for that? And when the President of a nation has handed the destiny of his country to economists who see human beings as naira and kobo, charts and figures, what else do you expect? May God punish the likes of you, and may you go down together with them into the abyss.
Let us balkanize this leaking Cave
Submitted by Obibi (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 11:43.
Instead of the Yoruba-Oriented Civil Society agitating for the balkanization of This leaking cave called Nigeria it is spending its energy drafting innocent young men and women to the streets to lose their life. Yoruba thrives nothing but in hypocrisy else how come they have suddenly woken up from medieval slumber. Even fear of BOKO HARAM could not permit them to raise eyebrow when their kits and kins were murdered in the North. What the cowardly OPC said was that the Yoruba was not at war with the North. I rather blame Niger Delta for thinking that Igbos are their enemies. They now see that without the Igbos these feckless North-West vagabonds would have messed up GEJ.This Subsidy removal has come to stay,period.
1) Clearly Jona is
Submitted by Anonymous9 (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 10:58.
1)
Clearly Jona is intellectually inferior to the Aje butters like SLS, Okonjo and co. But is this an excuse to wantonly throw away his own soul at the semi-final of his life?
I know of an aje pako boy trapped in the midst of aje butters that held his own gound even to the admiration of the ajebos! If they relate how they spent the summer in Las Vegas and spent the night in MGM in order to intimidate him, he would reply by calling their attention to the escalators of MGM and tell of an architectural uniqueness of a kind of lift that is one in town, and that even without setting a foot on MM airport. What are books there for?
2) Concerning Reuben Abati,
Submitted by Anonymous9 (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 10:58.
2)
Concerning Reuben Abati, he may be a first class whatever, but that he is so smart can not be said of him. When I heard so much noise about him, I started following his column. It did not take me two articles to detect his insincerity and lack of integrity. Then I wondered aloud: why are they shouting about this guy? This is the kind of person that knows what to say to appear good to people but has a totally sinister ulterior motive! For me Abati is still learning. If he wants to be smart let him humble himself and learn from our own Segun Adeniyi! That is a smart guy at all standards!
The type of Segun Adeniyi are guys the devil himself is afraid of(becos they are able to 419 him). They dine with him with a very long spoon and come out of it unscathed and afterwards go back to dine gloriously with angels. Up till tomorrow he can still hold even angels spellbound with his rhetoric.
it did not start with GEJ-THANK HIM ENDING IT
Submitted by deri (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 10:55.
(This sorry state of affair has continued unabated with Nigeria spending huge amount on subsidy that only end up in the bank account of a cabal that calls the shots in the petroleum importation business. According to some reports, the cabal who benefit from the monumental corruption, made the subsidy to rise in 2006 from N261bn, 2007-N279billion, 2008-N648billion, 2009-N422billion, 2010-N622billion to 2011-N1.4 trillion)
Mob justice awaiting these Nigerian Big Men & Women.
Submitted by Gen Rommel (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 10:40.
We have heard it many times that the Leader s Country gets is what it deserves. GEJ is just an evidence that the rot in the System is as old as GEJ's generation, If Nigeria does survive (which I seriously doubt). The next Presidents down the road will be likes of ex-Agberos. Going by the level of literacy in Nigeria; where over 80% can barely read & write & another 15% are half-baked(ie GEJ). The worse are the half baked running around like they have knowledge of everything. So, going by one Man one Vote theory, the future of Nigeria lies in the hands of the 85% Illiterate as they will shape or make Nigeria in all facet of lives. As regards the Elite class, they should be informed that recent Fuel riot has awaken the 85% of the potency of Power of the Majority. They will one day in not far future go house to house to hang these looters"Zanga-Zanga"!
Who are we
Submitted by Deri-not (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 10:40.
The presidency is a reflection of the extant institutions of a country and so in many ways reflects the values of its people.
The strong ethical values, such as hardwork, a strong consideration for what is right, justice, etc, that the different nations in Nigeria had pre- colonisation is vastly diminished and so we now have a sort of pseudo-culture where mediocrity and avarice is celebrated by all. Hence we have the likes of GEJ, Yaradua,OBJ, etc.
Being from the ND, I can't help but observe that regardless of ethnicity all our leaders including the local ones are at best useless.
The likes of Deri should stop putting ethnic colouration. GEJ, like others did nothing as governor. Ultimately it is the masses that suffers.
The evil plan against Nigeria.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 10:25.
Dr or Prof Pius.
Thank you for your beautiful nonsense.
Its only a blind man that will not see but feel the grand plan of the Cabal against the President...
When Dr. Ngozi assisted the country from a debt riding situation, she was not a bad adviser. I will read less meaning to these words because you sound like another Dr. Reuben Gbati whose major aim is to attract to Govt to his recognition.
GEJ will succeed against all odd.
OTILE, SOMETIMES I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY
Submitted by ibrahim saad (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 09:48.
YOU AND YOUR ILK ARE DEEPLY DAMAGED BY THE NORTH. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCAR THEY LEFT ON YOU, DERI AND OTHERS IS OVERWHELMING. AFTER 10 YEARS OF SOUTHERN RULE YOU STILL CANT FACE TODAYS REALITY. THE NORTH WAS YESTERDAY FOR GOD'S SAKE OTILE AND IF IN 10 YEARS YOU CANT TURN THE COUNTRY AROUND THEN WHAT CAN I SAY.
I WILL PRAY FOR YOU OTHERS LIKE YOU SUFFERING FROM POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISODER AND MAY GOD NEVER LET A NORTHERNER RULE AGAIN.
Take it easy
Submitted by Wumi Anonymous (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 09:32.
Your people - the Imopas,Okuns,Ilorins are somehow pro-north,Bayajjida illegimate children.Discuss issues not personality
LET bakare KILL GEJ-NO GOING BACK
Submitted by DERI (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 09:18.
Nigerians who have stolen and benefitted from the oil subsidy, causing pains and hardship to ordinary Nigerian citizens with Oando, owned by Wale Tinubu, younger brother of former Lagos Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Sayyud Dantata MRS oil topping the list.
Mike Adenuga’s CONOIL and construction companies, one of them suspected to be Julius Berger were named as the culprits.
Among the names reeled out by the Senator Abe led Committee are; Oando Nigerian Plc. – N228.506 b, MRS – N224.818 billion, Enak Oil & Gas – N19.684 billion, CONOIl – N37.960 billion, Bovas & Co. Nig. Ltd. – N5.685 billion, Obat N85 billion and AP; N104.5billion.
Nigerians who have stolen and
Submitted by DERI (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 09:16.
Nigerians who have stolen and benefitted from the oil subsidy, causing pains and hardship to ordinary Nigerian citizens with Oando, owned by Wale Tinubu, younger brother of former Lagos Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Sayyud Dantata MRS oil topping the list.
Mike Adenuga’s CONOIL and construction companies, one of them suspected to be Julius Berger were named as the culprits.
Among the names reeled out by the Senator Abe led Committee are; Oando Nigerian Plc. – N228.506 b, MRS – N224.818 billion, Enak Oil & Gas – N19.684 billion, CONOIl – N37.960 billion, Bovas & Co. Nig. Ltd. – N5.685 billion, Obat N85 billion and AP; N104.5billion.
Blind Campaign of Calumny
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 08:44.
Most Nigerians from northern and western region are simply the problem we have in this country. They claim to know better than others. Nothing good comes from any other tribe. Pius and other empty critics have used the worst adjectives in describing Mr President as if they have faired better in their private lives. The bold decision that president took in fighting corruption is the best so far. Kill corruption from the root. It is expected that corruption will fight back using the ignorance of Nigerians by citing gloom and death. Very sad indeed! What legacy do we want to leave for our future with this kind of attitude
The Nigerian Presidency assault with a dealy weapon
Submitted by matthew ogagavworia (not verified) on January 15, 2012 - 08:26.
The write up is a paradox of the power of the Nigerian Presidency. Despite wielding so much raw power, his enormous power is dwarfed by those held by his political creditors and retinue of advisers. I agree with you that we need to renegotiate how a Nigerian President emergies and the qualities we should look for next elections.
