Nashville: Do not be deceived about any approval rating hitting the roof. What people are saying is that he should have this 18 months ago. Several people had complained he had been too soft on Boko Haram and it has taken him this long to do something he should have done 18 months ago. Do you think OBJ would have waited this long?

He has shown how confused he really is by first of all declaring amnesty and a month later a state of emergency. Does this man called GEJ really know what he is doing? The State of Emergency is Long overdue.

Nashville: Do not be deceived about any approval rating hitting the roof. What people are saying is that he should have this 18 months ago. Several people had complained he had been too soft on Boko Haram and it has taken him this long to do something he should have done 18 months ago. Do you think OBJ would have waited this long?

He has shown how confused he really is by first of all declaring amnesty and a month later a state of emergency. Does this man called GEJ really know what he is doing? The State of Emergency is Long overdue.

solomon111: you think politics in Nigeria is as easy you think?
A nation where various ethnic interests must first be taken into consideration.
Smh.

Nashville: Do not be deceived about any approval rating hitting the roof. What people are saying is that he should have this 18 months ago. Several people had complained he had been too soft on Boko Haram and it has taken him this long to do something he should have done 18 months ago. Do you think OBJ would have waited this long?

He has shown how confused he really is by first of all declaring amnesty and a month later a state of emergency. Does this man called GEJ really know what he is doing? The State of Emergency is Long overdue.

Sincere 9gerian:
I dont understand. Were you expecting the president to declare state of emergency as the initial step in tackling boko haram? I hope you know majority of those in the army are northerners and muslims? For these solders to turn their guns against a group which also call themselves muslims (boko haram), they have to be fully convinced that it is the only way of ending the crisis. The president's action enjoys widespread support because it is clear to all, even northerners and muslims in the army, that SOE is justified. If the president had declared full blast military operation when other options have not been fully explored, one cannot rule out dissent or half-hearted obedience by certain sections of the army.

Even in doing the right thing, timing is very important. If you do the right thing at the wrong time it may be counterproductive. The right thing should be done at the right time to achieve desired result

Sincere 9gerian: The approval rating of the president has always been high amongst REAL PEOPLE on ground. The REAL PEOPLE on ground include:

- those who use the revived rail transport system
- those who travel along the improving federal roads
- the winners of the first and second editions of YOUWIN
- the beneficiaries of the Graduate Internship scheme
- the 5,000 people per state who are beneficiaries of the SURE-P women and youth empowerment scheme
- the pregnant women who are beneficiaries of the SURE-P maternal health intervention programme
- the non-academic and academic staff in the BRAND NEW 9 federal universities
- the farmers that are now receiving subsidized fertilizers and improved seeds
- the pioneer students of the 9 new federal universities
- those who travel by air and use the Airports frequently
- those who voted for the FIRST TIME in their life and saw their vote count
- etc, etc

Nashville:

Tell me what other avenue was explored before declaring a SOE. Oh, he had to wait for over 3,000 people to be killed before he realised this was a big problem. What about the families of the over 3,000 people that lost their lives to BH.

Boko Haram had declared war on Nigeria over two years ago and he is just realising it is serious. He should have crushed them before it became such a huge problem. The leader of Boko Haram had been put on the US terror list and they spoke of enlisting Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation, yet GEJ did nothing even declaring amnesty for them.

solopumpy227:

Hahh I saw this coming but please send my advice to the Aso Rock. We should concentrate on subjugating these militants (with minimal collateral damages) first before you resume campaigns. The least the FG needs now is distraction.

We have only seen the beginning of the military expedition and its too early to start counting your chicken.

Sincere 9gerian:
Maybe you'r the one "counting chicken". Check my previous posts, even before SOE, you'll see the glaring consistency and even more detailed catalogue of achievements of the govt.

solopumpy227:

I surely see your previous posts but the only thing is that I never see them in real life. The achievements seem to only occur in your mind.

I have asked you to give me pictures but you will keep posting rurbish. My likes dont just believe potentially duibious xters like you we investigate and deduce.

The Fashola you are trying to smear can daze you with pictures of achievements that will paralyze you ditto the Akwa-Ibom and River's Govt. But with like 60% of the cake going to your Oga at the top you should be able to back all your achievement stories with verifiable pictures.

solomon111: pls can you tell me any project of fashola that's not in other states.

solopumpy227:
Please ask Eko-Ile. I dont work for Fashola.

solopumpy227:

I surely see your previous posts but the only thing is that I never see them in real life. The achievements seem to only occur in your mind.

I have asked you to give me pictures but you will keep posting rurbish. My likes dont just believe potentially duibious xters like you we investigate and deduce.

The Fashola you are trying to smear can daze you with pictures of achievements that will paralyze you ditto the Akwa-Ibom and River's Govt. But with like 60% of the cake going to your Oga at the top you should be able to back all your achievement stories with verifiable pictures.

solopumpy227:

I surely see your previous posts but the only thing is that I never see them in real life. The achievements seem to only occur in your mind.

I have asked you to give me pictures but you will keep posting rurbish. My likes dont just believe potentially duibious xters like you we investigate and deduce.

The Fashola you are trying to smear can daze you with pictures of achievements that will paralyze you ditto the Akwa-Ibom and River's Govt. But with like 60% of the cake going to your Oga at the top you should be able to back all your achievement stories with verifiable pictures.

sammyzacks: We love Goodluck.If the this SOE works he will come back 2015 unopposed.

KnowAll: One of the ways American Presidents get the sympathies of their country's men and women is by going to wars, or better still invading lesser nations. The invasion of Granada, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean boosted Ronald Regan's Approval ratings into the stratosphere making him secure a second term with such an ease. so was George Bush senior's invasion of and eventual apprehension of the Panama strong man(Noriega), if the elections were held within the year of the invasion he would have secured re-election easily.

His approval ratings also hit the stratosphere just after the apprehension and eventual jailing of General Noriga. George Bush Snr could easily have secured a second term if not for Ross Perot who ran as an independent splitting and decimating the Republican votes hence his eventual loss of the election.

Noriega was Apprehended in Dec 1989, but the elections was not held for another 3.5 years in 1993. So from this little lesson of history, all Jonathan have to do going forward is to pursue a populist program before 2015.

The President has the momentum at the moment, and many ACN voters were not only embarrass by Mr Lai Mohammed's thoughtless criticism of the declaration of the State of Emergency, but are readily happy to dissociate themselves from such childish, amateurish and ill-time criticism and to make matters worse, one of the associating parties planning to form the APC mega party, and I am talking of[b] ANPP here, has come out openly to support Mr President's stance, [/b]obviously the Governor's of those states feels the pain of the pinch, unlike the ACN Governors who are more or less at the moment immune from the travails of what the citizenry of those states in the NE are going through.

So Mr President more grease to your elbow.

slinkky: mismanagement of the state of emergency could also, turn public opinion against him.