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Jonathan’s bad luck, By Sam Omatseye

The call for another Jonathan presidency reflects the four attitudes to a death: denial, rage, negotiation and acceptance

Some political losses are like death. To those who win, especially when the loser is a man in the top office of the land like Goodluck Jonathan, it is like a big iroko that crashes through a forest. No tree or leaf or bough is stout enough to repulse the thuds, hisses and howls of its fatal fall.

The victors, the likes of Buhari and his APC, could have looked at Jonathan’s fall as “a magnificent death,” the same way Joseph Conrad penned an obituary, in his metaphoric story titled: Youth about the bonfire of a ship at sea….CONTINUE FULL READING>>>

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