No one can say tomorrow, Simon Peter, one of the top associates of Jesus warned, when he wrote that "a day with the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day.".It is a saying that has also found relevance in the country's contemporary political landscape given the rejuvenation in the goodwill of the administration.
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President Goodluck Jonathan, who many had simply written off, some having consigned him to the footnote of history, has suddenly bounced back.
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The feeling of elation has indeed been all over since last Tuesday's proclamation of a state of emergency in the three northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. A people who had for some time believed they were forsaken to rudderless leadership can now look up and see some zest in the management of the insecurity situation of the country.
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Many critics of the administration were won over, and where not, silenced by the president's action in moving against those who had for some time held Nigeria captive.