THIS HERO MATTER SELF BY GANI KAYODE BALOGUN

Nigerians are a funny lot. It must either be the water we drink or all those fumes from the made in China generators.
Due to the mind numbing loss of two of my closest friends and the post elections analysis fatigue. I have paid scant attention to the social media and realise some persons, for a want of a better word, are calling Bros Jonah a hero.
I guess in the spirit of the season one should be charitable. After all, we don't want to become the Tortoise's in laws, who overdid the walk of shame bit. We asked the thief to run, he did, to drop the stolen goods, he did, what else did you expect the thief to do?
By any measurable parameters, the Jonathan administration is a monumental disaster. I have never seen a man throw away such amount of goodwill in such a short time for such avoidance mistakes and mismanaged relationships.
The man took a pan Nigerian mandate and reduced it into a bar brawl, using religion, ethnicity, clannishness and us versus them mantra that brought the country to the brink of ethno religious conflict.
The Jonathan administration pride itself in its management of the economy, yet it collapsed under a month after the bottom fell out of the oil market, the man inherited the biggest scavenging party in Africa and nurse it into coma, worst of all, the man unwittingly unite the two most powerful political blocs in the country against him, while hiding behind the two statistical irrelevant zones using emotional blackmail and sentiments.
Jonathan is not a hero, he is a man given a job that is beyond his ability, and the capability of his kitchen cabinet, all he was asked to do was not to drop the ball, which he nearly did.
An hero is not a man who generated more income than the two previous administration and went aborrowing at the first sign of distress., he is not the one who allows his wife to deride a whole region,and his spokesmen ridicule the military institution.
An hero would not call the zone that swung the election in his favor four years ago rascals, and you would not shut them out while pampering to myopic interests.
No, I don't think accepting obvious defeat is an act of heroism, but of weighing your options and knowing that heads or tails, you lose.
My ten kobo.