PRESIDENT JONATHAN WAS UNLIKE YAR'ADUA AS PRESIDENT

Granted, former President Jonathan is now a celebrated man of valour, but he didn't come across as a man with a Bachelor's Degree throughout his five years in office as President. His former boss, Mr Yar Adua, with a Master's Degree, was more astute, more learned, and apparently more politically sophisticated. He didn't know who was who in the Nigerian polity. And he appeared too blank as an academic or a PhD holder from the ivory tower. 

He was just too shallow and his cognitive ability did not pass as one from the Niger Delta. Most often, he had difficulties putting a sentence together. That was the problem most non-aligned political commentators like Mr. Sonala Olumhense and his colleagues had with him. 

They expect him to cast a brand and dismantle the old order, but he gravitated towards them childishly.

Even though President Jonathan had all the so-called Easterners in his administration, he had more projects in the North than in his own region. How many International Airports did Stella Odua build in the South-East? There was no superhighway linking Delta State with Yenagoa and Port Harcourt. 

He was too afraid to use his power. Maybe naivety is the right word. For instance, President Yar'Adua locked up the entire management team of the NERC without trial over allegations of massive corruption and squandering of public funds in the Energy Commission. 

He removed Nnaji from the Energy or Electricity position over a stupid allegation. He also removed one Ibo guy from the Nigerian Population Commission because Northerners protested that a few years back, the guy doubted the authenticity of the Northern population's superiority over the South. 

By the way, the Senate Committee report on the bogus Petroleum Marketers should've made him a superstar President, but he tried to punch holes in the report, via Chief Otedola. Even went the Aig Imoukhuede Committee that he set up, established beyond a reasonable doubt in its report that the Marketers did indeed scam the NNPC and DPPPR of the Subsidy Funds, President Jonathan didn't know what to do with the report. Two of the fraudulent marketers were the children of the two previous leaders of the PDP.  

Today, he is a global hero, thanks to the Nigerian culture of low expectations and the bigotry of his successor.