With this development, keen watchers of the polity should be able to see the handwriting on the wall. And it is saying the almost same thing as King Nebuchadnezzar's son, Bleshazzar saw: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN (Daniel 5:25 KJV). Only time will tell. I hope the seers in Jonathan's employ will tell him this.
the other thing I see in this is the fact that our democracy may be on its way to maturing. At last. At looooonnnnnngggggg last! Don't mind the hue and cry from PDP about hose jumping ship now: when it was benefitting from same in the recent past, it saw NOTHING WRONG in the action of those who swelled its ranks. Now the tide has turned...
May be Jonathan himself may dump PDP so that he can contest on a different platform, at least to bury the ghost of his 'one term' unwritten pact. What do you think, my people?
God bless Nigeria.
Shalom!
'Diran
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the other thing I see in this is the fact that our democracy may be on its way to maturing. At last. At looooonnnnnngggggg last! Don't mind the hue and cry from PDP about hose jumping ship now: when it was benefitting from same in the recent past, it saw NOTHING WRONG in the action of those who swelled its ranks. Now the tide has turned...
May be Jonathan himself may dump PDP so that he can contest on a different platform, at least to bury the ghost of his 'one term' unwritten pact. What do you think, my people?
God bless Nigeria.
Shalom!
'Diran
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On Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:26 AM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:
There will be more to defect to APC and other parties. This is an indication that the would be 2015 presidential ambition of President Jonathan is wobbling and he needs to do something pretty quick before the worse befalls him.
If care is not taken, Mr. President could be impeached before the next presidential election.
I hope he drops his ambition now. He also needs to make it public soon and give Nigerians a respite.
Segun Ogungbemi.
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18 December 2013Last updated at 12:02 ETNigeria's Goodluck Jonathan loses parliament majority
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has lost his majority in the House of Representatives after 37 MPs defected to a new opposition party.The MPs said in a letter to the speaker of the 360-seat lower chamber that they had joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) party.This is the first time a president has lost his majority in the chamber since military rule ended in 1999.Nigeria is due to hold presidential elections in 2015.The defection of the MPs is the latest blow to Mr Jonathan and his governing People's Democratic Party (PDP), and will make it extremely difficult for them to implement their legislative programme, correspondents say.The PDP, which still controls the upper chamber, the Senate, has won every national election since the end of military rule.Last week, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo told Mr Jonathan it would be "morally flawed" for him to seek re-election because of his failure to tackle Nigeria's myriad problems - including corruption, piracy, kidnapping and oil theft.This came several weeks after a powerful faction of state governors broke away to join the APC.The PDP now has fewer governors supporting it than the opposition.The APC was formed in February following the merger of four opposition parties to challenge the PDP in the 2015 election.Mr Jonathan moved from the vice-presidency to the presidency in 2010 after his predecessor, Umaru Yar'Adua, died in office.He won presidential elections the following year.Toyin FalolaDepartment of HistoryThe University of Texas at Austin104 Inner Campus DriveAustin, TX 78712-0220USA512 475 7224512 475 7222 (fax)
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