By 'graciously' conceding defeat, despite unassailable evidence of widespread and systematic electoral fraud contrived and executed from the highest echelons of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and intense pressure from domestic and international (US & UK governments) quarters, it has become clear following from confessions from those with a capacity to effect same (particularly retired General Theophilus Danjuma), that widespread mayhem and mass murders had been averted. President Jonathan is thus in some ways, a 'hero' of sorts - maybe hero of averting civil strife, hero of preventing mass murder, hero of preserving a shambolic contraption, hero of and so on...
But hero of democracy, as some have vainly tried to portray President Jonathan? Certainly not.
A cowardly disposition can never make a hero of such lofty ideals as democracy.
There had always been easier paths which those recognized globally as heroes of democracy could have taken, but they opted for the more thorny paths that leads to lasting change.
President Goodluck Jonathann opted for the easier path, a path that may cost us more further down the tortuous road we are headed.
Picture: Some of the millions of illegal under-aged 'voters' used to rig out the Jonathan administration in Nigeria in the 2015 Presidential elections.
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