While Nigerians were thrown into another
traumatic experience on Saturday the 15th of
December, of the Navy helicopter crash that
claimed the lives of the Kaduna State Governor,
Patrick Yakowa, former National Security Adviser,
General Owoye Azazi, and in no less pain, Dauda
Tsoho, Warrant Officer Mohammed Kamal and
pilots, Commander Muritala Daba and Lt. Adeyemi
O. Sowole, one cannot help but ponder on likely
physical, metaphysical, spiritual, political and
socio-economic forces that caused four crashes in
the 2012 calendar year (Police Helicopter – March
14; Dana Airplane – June 3; Danbaba’s Cessna –
October 25; Military Helicopter – December 15).
One cause that flashed through my thoughts are,
in the words of journalists, UNCONFIRMED;
Sounds jejune but permit me to express it
anyway.
That the different political capacities Mr President
has served, was made possible by the goodluck
factor on his part but bad news in the camp of
those he happened to have been next in
command to, is no news, at least to the religious,
sarcastic and permutative in Nigeria.
News from Enugu, Cross River, Taraba and now
Kaduna seem to confirm that the deputies are
dancing to the throne while the original office
holders are either crashed, sick or on prolonged
‘leave’.
Don’t Africans believe the fish spoils and smells
from the head? Indeed, one cannot
underestimate the control the head (as a
metaphor for the brain) has over the other parts
of the body!
Is the ‘step-aside’, or what you may call “die-and-
go” syndrome rubbing off on the lower wrung of
the political ladder in Nigeria?
What spiritual message is this sending?
Much as panic of any kind is not my intention
here, this exposure of my thoughts is for the wise
and discerning to help a Nigerian like me look
beyond the physical. Afterall even serving
Honourable Ministers are of the believe that
happenings in Nigeria is more than meets the
eye.
Mayokun Akpoterabor (@lafta4dlonely) writes
from Lagos

Source: newsbytesnow.com/2012/12/16/a-must-read-jonathan-his-governors-and-the-step-aside-anointing/