In a conference hall full of idealistic presidents, Goodluck Jonathan would be inconceivable. Such a gathering of supersonic minds would be completely out of character. With Jonathan tip-toeing into the fray and pretending to be "one of a kind" with the rest, you get the picture of a bicycle tyre with a defective spoke. That spoke is who else? You answer that. Imagine a line-up of world leaders, such as, among a tsunami of them, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Nicola Sarkozy and David Cameron, all boiling with, and oozing, ideas that define the world "capitalism;" then shuffle in a dim-witted, cowboy-hat-wearing (and, don't forget, proud-of-it) Bayelsa native. But how does that pan out? Easy as can be: odd.

The oddity of Goodluck Jonathan's - or, for that matter, any Nigerian president's - participation in the Davos confabulation is as self-evident as the inconsistency of a mouse co-habiting with super cats. Mice’s tiny feet and little squeaks would be obliterated in the fine mix of deafening roars, scissor-claws and razor-fangs. That is because the Nigerian “economic system” – as though we could actually call it that – is practically inconsistent with civilization. It has barbarism written all over it.

Capitalism is the triumph of market forces, by which demand and supply compete to out-do each other in the ideal of creating and sustaining society’s continuous happiness. Essentially, market forces are the primary allocator of wealth and, consequently, happiness. Although that is largely imagined – society’s continuous happiness, that is – capitalism in the West, never mind its on-going crisis of confidence, has proved, at least, tolerable to local populations. Most of Western society has successfully “humanized” capitalist economics with deliberate injections of socialist principles, which place human happiness on a pedestal. It is called “welfarism,” which, in places such as the United Kingdom, is flourishing.

In Nigeria, supposedly a capitalist enclave, capitalism retains its monstrous identity. That is because the capitalist class conspires effectively with the political class to sustain a barbarous regime of ferocious strangulation of society. There is no ideological thought whatsoever. Instead, political leaders do what they please, and big business cues into that to whet its exploitative appetite. Despite a bowel cascading with oil, Nigeria remains in economic sclerosis because politicians have no fig of an idea about capitalist economic management. The massive industrialization and imaginative temperament that capitalism needs to thrive remain barricaded behind a wide wall of political buffoonery.

So, what is Jonathan going to contribute in Davos? First of all, the pre-question that pops up in your head, stubbornly and repeatedly, is: does Jonathan have the mental bark and the philosophical bite that all the others can deploy with sub-atomic proficiency? Can he square up to Angela Merkel in analysing prevailing economic trends, for example? Compared to Merkel, Jonathan is an intellectual roundabout. You decipher that. Because he can’t spell “capitalism” accurately, let alone understand it, he has no idea what it means. So, how is he going to contribute to the topic, “Is 20th Century Capitalism Failing 21st Century Society?” Again, that is hard to see. However, expect him to do his usual rigmarole of delusions: he is, of course, going to recruit his over-flowing portmanteau of uncooked speech writers to fill our brains with pain.

In the economics of politics, ideas beget ideas. But with the defining ideas about capitalism emanating from places where Jonathan fears to tread idealistically, there is a problem. The problem – which, in Jonathan’s extravagant mind, is a solution – is that he will be making excuses for the on-going failure of his “decidedly transformative” gibberish. In speech after speech, Jonathan has blamed everyone but himself for the tragic futility of his “transformation agenda,” a feverish fluke produced by a fictitious and artificial mind. He pinches everything from the Nigerian people to “prevailing negative trends in world economics;” yet he refuses to pinch himself, who is drained of both foresight and intellect, which should have told him that massive, calculated industrialization – garnished with a welfare system – is preferred to long, winding and empty speeches. He is certainly going to Davos to justify his fuel subsidy nonsense to a gathering that, while openly applauding him, would privately explode into little guttural guffaws of amusement. So, welcome to Davos, President “Gridlock” Jonathan by Darlington Ehondor

Unnecessary nonsense, The writer is trying to get attention,

Jesus said,'a prophet is without honour in his own country'.This gentleman has succintly painted the true picture of the Nigerian political space and its clueless 'messiah'.The Holy Bible says,'the deep calleth unto the deep'.Only an individual with intellectual depth will value the submission of this highly cerebral Nigerian as it would appear as an illusion to a mind on the far side-if you know what I mean.Darlington Ehondor is the last of titan writers who paint scenarios with words.I doff my hat,sir!