Jonathan, The Fire Fighter

[Shola Sholaz]

Now it looks like President Goodluck Jonathan has decided to take on the beast of religious terrorists ravaging different parts of Northern Nigeria, particularly the North-Eastern part, with his imposition of emergency rule on the three states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa last Wednesday.
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The President had in a national broadcast made the announcement after his hurried return to the country in what looks like a panicky attempt to cover the sore of insecurity he had allowed to fester for so long. For to speak the truth, the situation in the North East last week was not in anyway different from what it had been like in the last many months.
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There was therefore no apparent justification for the declaration of emergency.
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But PDP chairman, Bamanga Tukur, has volunteered information which seems a secret known only to members of his party. The terrorists, Alhaji Tukur said, have perfected plans to secede from Nigeria with parts of the North under their control.