OPINION: Goodluck Jonathan Was Never A Power-monger, By Ade-King

This was more than aptly reflected in his willingness to conduct a free-and-fair election and readily relinquished power when the result didn't favour him.

It is a travesty of humongous proportion to mention the name of such a Democrat  (not to even talk of making comparisons) in the same breath with that of a man who not only violently happened upon our consciousness through the intimidating barrels of a gun and truncated our march into mature democracy, but who also, thirty years down the line, shamelessly lied about his qualifications to gain a position for which he was ill-qualified and supported the blatant lie with criminally-forged and indefensible results,  threatened the citizens with the spilling of their innocent blood if they didn't vote him in, and then relied on the fraudulent manipulations of a Tinubu and the illegal voting by millions of kids across the North, to win an election.

Sad to say, his less than three years in the saddle has witnessed fraud and corruption of unimaginable proportions, a corruption personified by his stubborn and quite selfish tenacity to hold on to power, even when it is so clear to even the blindest of his followers that he is no longer in a position to manage even a family - a fact attested to by no less a person than his wife of 35 years - talk less of a nation of a 180million people.

Personally, I no longer worry about whether he would resign or not (have never seen a dictator resign a position in my life); I know that no matter how long he clings on to power (even as he doesn't know what to do with it except use it to feather his nest and those of his fellow nation traducers and vitriols), his time either in power will sooner than later expire.

I'm  also no longer worried about his mindless destruction of everything decent, glowing and useful in the country; for if we could survive his almost 30-month bull-in-a-china-shop rampage, we would survive the next 18.

I've always said a country that survived an  Abacha will more than survive a thousand Buharis.

I'm seeing that prediction coming to pass as we inch closer to his inevitable and thanksgiving-worthy finish line.

It would sooner be Uhuru in my Fatherland.