I just laugh at some folks when they question why president Goodluck Jonathan should take the greater credit for the way things turned out after the announcement of last week's presidential election results,instead they are giving jega all the credit when things would have gone really awry for the country if a jonathan had not conceded defeat

Gej's crime in all of this is that he failed to act like a real nigerian politician would've( he isn't one by the way). He took many political decisions which are not very typical of a nigerian politician that we know,lemme highlight a few of them

1) He selected a jega who is well renown for his approach to things starting from his days as ASUU chairman,yet he chose him as inec chairman and still gave him a free hand to do his work(no nigerian politician with an intention to manipulate things would have attempted doing that)

2) He allowed an APC to emerge when he had all the powers to frustrate any efforts to bring it to reality;he could have divided their ranks with heavy monetary inducement of the arrowheads,he could have blackmailed the pdp governors that wanted to leave to the new party if pleading failed and he could,with inec chairman's help(assuming he had him in his pockets),frustrate the registration of the party,and if they decided to go to court,he'd have frustrated the case there too,till after elections had been done and dusted,but he never did any of this

3)He attempted to solve the boko haram issue towards the end of his tenure after all the knocks he'd received at home and abroad when he could have left things the way they were so that he could have manipulated the votes from the states in the north eastern region to his favor

4)All the things APC accused pdp of planning to do;like interim govt,cancelling elections and the likes,if a GEJ was really down with
these options,he would have gone ahead with any of them and damned the consequences

5)Though he succumbed to postponing elections when it was becoming clear he could have lost with the shoddy way inec handled pvc collection and distribution,as well as his opponent's growing popularity as shown from opinion polls,he however didn't succumb to removing Jega which a typical nigerian politician would have done to change the outcome of his impending defeat

6)He trusted his northern allies who misadvised him that his achievements in the northern region were enough to get him substantial votes from there while they were all the time working underground to ensure his opponent won,a typical nigerian politician would never have left anything to chance,rather he'd have had his plan B ready in case if such projections failed

7)Following from the last point,when it was becoming clear that his opponent was overtaking him based on results trickling in from that region,he'd have allowed plan B to kick in to mitigate the gap

Finally,a typical nigerian politician would never have conceded defeat,he would've used the army to mitigate any chaos that would've arisen as a result of such decision and would have ended up throwing nigeria into a prolonged crisis(gbagbo style)

He did none of these things,rather he chose the path of honor,for this singular action of avoiding another prolonged crisis in nigeria,he deserves to be praised to high heavens. Cluelessness in this case is indeed a good thing for nigeria,God bless Goodluck the democrat