Nigeria: The 'Curse' of a Godfather

18 December 2013
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Of recent President Goodluck Jonathan has been under siege like no other president in recent history. In quick succession he has come under indirect attack from the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, and then directly from the Speaker of the House of Representative, Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and even more directly, from his erstwhile benefactor and estranged godfather, former president, General Olusegun Obasanjo.

Not least of all the man has come under renewed attack from the new opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) which has called for the president's impeachment subsequent upon Obasanjo's open letter to his erstwhile godson, a letter in which the godfather has accused his godson of sundry offences including venality, incompetence and bad faith as leader of his party, as president of the country, as commander-in-chief of its armed forces, as its chief security officer and as its political leader.

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