Of GEJ, OBJ and Atiku’s ambition

In choosing the leaders of nations, whatever the school of thought one chooses to belong to, what is sacrosanct is the hand of God in the whole affair.

It then becomes ridiculous when a man or group of men attribute or arrogate such omniscient character of God to mortals.

It is in this light that one can analyse the recent commentary credited to former President, Goodluck Jonathan to the effect that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s presidential ambition cannot be materialistic without the aid of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

President Jonathan was said to have given this perspective while hosting and speaking with Dele Momodu, the publisher of Ovation magazine, wherein the former president described the elder stateman, Obasanjo, as the ‘boss’ with the magic wand’ that commands respect for happenings in the polity.

While one acknowledges that men are the materials needed to actualise political power, we must, as a people, be humble and sober enough to allow God’s way,  and also let a person’s pedigree and achievements count. This is one good way to get out of the unfortunate doldrums in which the country seems to be perpetually plunged into.

It is common knowledge that Atiku vehemently opposition the constitution amendment which was could have allowed Obasanjo to run as president for the third consecutive term in 2006.

If Obasanjo, being human, is out to fight Atiku, such should not determine the course our nation must take.

And come to think of it, it is unheard of and a national shame to wait on an individual, who himself is neither infallible nor sanctimonious, to embark on a leadership choice.

It is the responsibility of a nation by virtue of individual political choices to choose a leader, not by the whims any individual who assumes hyperbolic political status.