1.
Where many leaders are two-faced; publicly kindly
but privately feared and/or hated by people closest to them, Jonathan is
consistent in the way he treats people, consistently kind and personally
humble. He lives by the code that those who lead must serve. He believes that.
He lives it. He lived it long before he was in the public eye.
2.
Jonathan puts service ahead of ideology. He also
knows that to succeed politically you need to be tough. He can be. He has been.
This is a man who does what works, rather than scoring ideological points. In
other words he is the quintessential non-ideological pragmatic Nigerian. He
will (thank God!) disappoint ideologues and purists of the left and the right.
3.
Jonathan has a reservoir of personal physical
courage that is unmatched in our presidential history. Why unmatched? Because
as the first minority president, Jonathan and all the rest of us, know that he
is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged
tribal hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the
bowels of our wounded and sinful country. By stepping forward to lead, Jonathan
has literally put his life on the line for all of us in a way no other Nigerian
ever has had to do. (And we all know how dangerous the presidency has been)
4.
President Jonathan has taken on the leadership of
our country at a make or break time of historic proportions. He faces not one
but dozens of crisis, each big enough to define any presidency in bad times.
5.
As luck, fate or divine grace would have it
(depending on one’s personal theology) Jonathan is blessedly, dare I say
uniquely, well-suited to our dire circumstances. Jonathan is a person with
hands-on experience, deep connections to top advisers from the renowned
Universities in Nigeria being a former university lecturer, and a middle-class
background that gives him an abiding knowledgeable empathy with the rest of us.
As the son of poor parents, who has worked his way up with merit and brains, in
three giant political steps to state office, national office and now the
presidency, Jonathan clearly has the wit and drive to lead in 2015.
6.
Jonathan is the sober voice of reason at a time of
unreason. He is the fellow keeping his head while all around him are panicking.
He is the healing presence at a time of national division and strife. He is
also new enough to the political process so that he doesn’t suffer from the
terminally jaded cynicism, the seen-it-all-before syndrome afflicting most
politicians in Nigeria.
7.
Jonathan brings a healing and uplifting spiritual
quality to our politics at the very time when our worst enemy is fear. Fearless
Jonathan is the cure. He speaks a litany of hope rather than a litany of
terror.
8.
As we have watched Jonathan respond in a quiet
reasoned manner to crisis after crisis, in both the way he has responded after
being attacked and lied about, to his reasoned response to our multiplying
national crises, what we see is the spirit of a trusted family doctor with a
great bedside manner. Jonathan is perfectly suited to hold our hand and lead us
through these very tough times. The word panic is not in the Jonathan
dictionary.
9.
Jonathan brings a moral clarity to his leadership
reserved for those who have had to work for everything they’ve gotten and had
to do twice as well as the person standing next to them because of the region
they come from. His experience of succeeding in spite of his social background
could have been embittering or one that fostered a spiritual rebirth of
forgiveness and enlightenment. Jonathan radiates the calm inner peace of the
spirit of forgiveness.
10. Speaking as a
believing Nigerian I see the hand of a merciful God in Jonathans Presidency.
The biblical metaphors abound. The stone the builder rejected is become the
cornerstone… the last shall be first… he that would gain his life must first
lose it… the meek shall inherit the earth…
11.
For my secular friends I’ll allow that we may have
just been extraordinarily lucky! Either way Nigeria wins.
12. Only a
brilliant man, with the spirit of a preacher and the humble heart of a kindly
family doctor can lead us now. We are afraid, out of ideas, and worst of all
out of hope. Jonathan is the cure. And we Nigerian’s have it in us to rise to
the occasion. We will. We’re in one of the most frightening periods of Nigerian
history. Our country has rarely faced more uncertainty. This is the time for
greatness. We have a great leader. We must be a great people backing him,
fighting for him, sacrificing for a cause greater than ourselves.
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