Business Day
11 May 2011
Phillip Eyam-Ozung .
Though Ambassador John Campbell is a US diplomat who served as the USA ambassador to Nigeria under the administration of President Gorge W. Bush and now serves as a senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, I'm pretty certain that he's better known as the author of the headline- grabbing book entitled "Nigeria: Dancing on the brink". Based on the choice of the title and timing of his book under reference, it was easily-discernible that Ambassador John Campbell's brief was to shoot down President Goodluck Jonathan's presidential ambition
+++ Ambassador John Campbell argued that President Goodluck Jonathan's presidential bid lacked legitimacy and therefore was of doubtful feasibility because it wasn't the product of 'elite consensus'. Ambassador John Campbell's second argument against President Jonathan's presidential bid was that it had the potential of undermining national unity because it was a violation of the zoning arrangement agreed between the Muslim North and the Christian South. Not done, Ambassador John Campbell proceeded to argue that if President Goodluck Jonathan contested the 2011 presidential elections, the election was going to destabilize Nigeria
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