I know that some people will be swift to allude
protocolary measures as the reason why the president of Nigeria, President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is seen taking a
vague and unimportant second to the last position in this family photograph
during the recently concluded Africa/U.S summit held in the united states of
America. Some might even say that as an african, he decided to cede his honorable
position to other elderly and long serving african leaders, but whatever the
excuse, I think it is a disgraceful world image to see the president of the most populated black country in the world and africa´s economic giant missing from a
preeminent row at a conference of this significance.
We should be careful how we underestimate our
importance as a nation in the world panorama, I cannot imagine an american
president no matter how young missing from the front row in a photograph like
this. We should at all times reclaim our leading position in africa, to me
personally, it is better to be missing in a photograph like this as a way of demanding our
rightful position than to be standing where our president is standing in this
photograph.
Unfortunate steps like this is what makes african nations cease to respect us in spite of our significance in Africa.
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