PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, TREADING ON THE PATH OF FLIPPANCY?

'It is now GAME OVER for militants in the Niger Delta' so said President Jonathan while assessing the latest (in)security situation in the Niger Delta. Icheoku says just because some encampments in the creeks of the Niger Delta were overrun by the Nigerian army now makes it a game over, militants-free zone. Lifting a line from al-Queida statement to 'foreign invaders' that 'we live here but you guys will someday pack and go back to your countries,' Icheoku queries Mr President, for how long does his military plan to encamp in the Niger Delta?

Just last month, the same President Jonathan emphatically told a surprised world, ever before any investigation started, that 'the Abuja independence day celebration bombing was not carried out by MEND.' He took a step further to somewhat completely exonerate those MEND anarchists, claiming that 'MEND is not a terrorist organisation?' Icheoku observes that the military did not just go into the Niger Delta this time to flush out al-Queida or Boko Haram, but the same MEND urchins who the president had earlier absolved of being terrorists; but practically deemed them Nigeria's Mother Theresa(s)! Anyway it is only Mr President who knows or should know what he is actually talking about, but Icheoku worries that he is beginning to sound like someone without any real knowledge of the happenings around his surroundings.

Analyzing some of his recent utterances, it appears that the president is steadily exhibiting and manifesting his lack of actual knowledge about the real situation of things in the country he is supposedly in charge of and running? We hope that the disagreement between his lips and his thoughts is not an early warning signs of something more ominous and sinister such as a medically out of sync neuron which has gone rogue on the president. We are however comforted that it may not be anything to worry about since the president is not the only Nigerian in a leadership position whose mouth precedes his/her thoughts. However, just like Lai Mohammed advised the other flipping top party official, lets hope too that President Goodluck Jonathan's utterances do not soon start becoming irrelevance and the butt of jokes among Nigerians, which would not bode well and will sure see the roof crashing on those revelers at Aso Rock!