Our dear President Goodluck Jonathan, like most political
leaders under constant public gaze and oftentimes, glare has had his fair share
of 'moments to regret'. Different leaders have different ways of dealing with
the aftershocks of these blunders. Some indeed can be laughed off. Others can
be logically reconstructed with clever 'wordneering'. The thing though is that
there are certain attributes that help a bumbler to talk himself out of a
sticky 'moment to regret'. It may be a gift of the garb, locally known as
'sweet mouth' or the confidence to admit that it was a 'stupid thing to say'.
Or indeed to keep quiet and at least some will afford the benefit that the
bumbler had seen the light and was internalizing his painful regret. Our dear
President Jonathan, will rather and in
the most unconvincing fashion defend the indefensible and make things worse, or
in 'yamandgoatspeak' - 'pour sand in his
own garri'