These are the direct words of the Nigerian President when he addressed the annual meeting of the Nigerian Economic summit this week. The President said“ When you talk about corruption, the private sector is involved; the public sector is involved; even individuals. But I wouldn’t want to mention names so that I will not be attacked" This development that is coming out of Nigeria did not surprise me for one second as a political observer, political analysis and public commentator on the Nigeria's most important national issues.
I have never believed in the ability of this President to fight the menace of the official corruption in Nigeria from the day one of his questionable presidency for the following four main reasons that I have listed below:(i). He has no single public record of actively or passively fighting the menace of the official corruption in Nigeria to date as a deputy governor, a state governor, a vice-president, an acting president and as a president. (ii). It is on record that no single corrupt Nigerian public official has ever been successfully prosecuted by the EFCC to the fullest of the law and jailed successfully despite all the alleged corruption evidences by the same EFCC against those corrupt Nigerian public officials under the watch and the presidency of this lame-duck leader to date.
(iii). President Jonathan Goodluck is a direct product and one of the biggest beneficiaries from the highly corrupt Nigeria's electoral and political system to date. A product of corruption cannot fight the same corruption successfully that produced him in the first instance. (iv). President Jonathan Goodluck was the biggest political accident of history in the presidency of Nigeria. He was not ready, prepared and equipped from the day one of his presidency for the challenges and the constitutional responsibilities of this highest office in Nigeria that he occupies today
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