This editorial is clear and well thought out. It is obvious that we are going to spend the remaining part of Yaradua's tenure without any noteworthy achievement. It is even more scary when one realises the enormity of the chalenges facing this country called Nigeria at this juncture. In the absence of a healthy president, power is now centered on a few cabals majorly from the North who are bent on reversing the few achievements of the OBJ government. I would go a step further to suggest that Yaradua should not wait till the end of this administration (because no one is sure he wount die in power, God forbid!!).I suggest he resigns outright. But he should first come clean to Nigerians, tell us the truth about his state of health, hold clean and transparent elections, and hand over to a more competent, robust and purposeful leader that this nation desperately deserves now. I do not know why successive regimes alaways fail in this nation. 8 years can change a whole lot of things in the life of a nation. Vladimir Putin used 8 years to rebuild Russia entirely. We can not afford (after wasting Obasanjo's 8 years with a handful of achievements) to waste another 8 years of Yaradua with obviously nothing at all to show as achievement.

I am with you, Fast Track. If Jonathan feels he is to weak to do any better than his boss, perhaps a coalition of Buhari and Ibori, (if the oppostion is smart enough to unite in order to defeat PDP which has squandered its overwhelming majority in Congress to legislate effectively to benefit the poor instead of themselves plus PDP leaders' brainless attempt to bring Atiku back into their fold despite Atiku's theivery, insubordination and defection) my be a panacea to reviving OBJ's reform policies to save this nation from visionless and weak leadership and move the nation forward in a positive way. Buhari can keep the military at bay and Ibori can tap into his professorship to design workable polity and economy - the 3 traits of OBJ that is lacking in this current admin.