According to his spokes-man, the man who has just become the acting president of Africa's most populous country, Goodluck Jonathan, has vowed to "secure Nigeria's path to greatness and guarantee our place among the great nations of the world in the shortest possible time." That would be a tall order even for a freshly elected leader with a thumping majority and two terms in office. In fact, the spokesman's desperate hyperbole reveals the truth of the matter: Mr Jonathan is taking over the leadership of one of the world's least governable countries in the least promising circumstances.
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