Permit me to begin this contribution by
quoting a portion of an essay that I wrote
on September 26, 2011, which was titled
”On Goodluck Jonathan, David and Goliath”.
The portion reads as follows.
”A few days ago from the sacred pulpit of
the hallowed chambers of the National
Christian Centre in Abuja and in the
presence of the entire leadership of the
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN),
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
proclaimed as follows- ”I am not David….I
am not a general…..I am not a lion…..I will
defeat the Goliaths in our land”. These are
deep and instructive words yet I do wonder
whether Mr. President understands the
spiritual and practical implications of what
he is saying.
“If he says that he ”is not a David” how can
he then possibly slay the ”Goliaths in the
land?” If he says that he ”is not a general”
how can he be an effective Commander-in-
Chief who commands the respect and
confidence of his army and his officers? If
he says that he ”is not a lion” how can he
overwhelm the animals in our jungle that
seek to destroy and ravage our land? The
lion is a noble and courageous animal that
defends it’s pride and family and protects
it’s own. That is why it is known as the
”king of the jungle” and that is why our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself is
known as the ”Lion of the Tribe of Judah”.
“Every king worth his salt must have the
spirit of the lion and the warrior in him to a
certain extent. It is a fundamental pre-
qualification for good quality and
inspirational leadership and that is what
distinguishes the pretender and the usurper
from a real king. May the spirit and
weakness of Ahab not be our President’s
portion even though his words seem to
have ensnared him. History proves that
weak kings and weak leaders always pull
down and destroy great empires and strong
kingdoms.
“If you have any doubt about that consider
what happened to the Roman Empire under
Nero, Claudius or Caligula. If you still have
any doubts after that then read up on
Russian history or watch an excellent old
film called ”Nicholas and Alexander” about
Tsar Nicholas the 1st, the last Tsar of Russia
and how his strong-willed wife and his
consistent display of weakness shamed and
brought down imperial Russia, destroyed
the 300 year old royal dynasty of the
Romanovs, led directly to the First World War
(which in turn led to the Second World War
and then later the Cold War), caused the
communist revolution, led to the Russian
civil war, resulted in the murder of his whole
family and ended in the establishment and
creation of the most evil and godless empire
that has ever ruled half of the world- the
cold and all-powerful Soviet empire.
“That is what weakness, prevarication,
inconsistency, cowardice, emotional slavery,
inexplicable fear and the celebration of
indecision can do. Worst still you don’t boast
about such qualities because there is
nothing to be proud of in them. Always
remember, whether you are a king or a
subject, that courage is the greatest of all
the virtues. This is wisdom. Would someone
please tell our President”.
Once again please take note that the
contribution that I quoted above was part
of an essay that I wrote on 26th September
2011, almost two years ago to the day.
With the killing of 91 children by Boko
Haram in Damaturu a few days ago, the
slaughter of 40 Nigerian troops by Boko
Haram in Borno state recently, the massacre
of 41 school children in Borno state by Boko
Haram two months ago, the mass murder of
no less than 7000 Nigerians by Boko Haram
in the last 3 years and the raging war that is
going on in the northern eastern part of our
country between Boko Haram and our
military today, those words and that counsel
that was offered two years ago seem even
more relevant today than it was even at that
time.
The carnage that we are witnessing in our
country today has come as a direct result of
the manifestation of weakness at the top.
When a President tells the world that Boko
Haram are his ”siblings” whom he ”cannot
move against”, as he did earlier this year, he
is asking for trouble. When a President
keeps offering Boko Haram amnesty even
when they kept rejecting it and whilst they
were murdering his people, as he has been
doing for the last three years, he is asking
for trouble. When a President installs and
supports a party National Chairman who
describes Boko Haram as ”freedom
fighters”, as he did earlier this year, he is
asking for trouble.

When a President announces to the world
that he is ”not a lion or a David”, as he did
exactly two years ago, no one should be
surprised when his people are killed like
flies before his very eyes. May God bring us a
real leader that can save our nation and may
He take away this one who feels no pain
and has no empathy when Nigerian blood,
nay even the blood of innocent children, is
shed with impunity. Under the tenure of our
”lamb” President, more innocent Nigerians
have been slaughtered by terrorists than at
any other time in the history of our country
except during the civil war.
What a mess! What a record! I continue to
ponder about one thing though- would the
President have been so unperturbed and
detached from the whole thing if the
children that were killed in their school
yesterday morning had been from his Niger
Delta area or from the east. It appears to me
that simply because those kids were
northerners, this President just ”doesn’t give
a damn”. What a tragedy! Whether Christian
or Muslim, northern or southern, these are
only children and they are NIGERIAN children
each of whom is entitled to the full
protection of the Nigerian state. I have said
it before and I shall say it again, Nigeria has
become an abattoir of human flesh and
blood under the tenure of President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and all those who
support him should bury their heads in
shame. The blood of all those innocent
people is on his hands because he swore to
an oath before God and the Nigerian people
to protect them from such evil. Instead of
getting on with his job and doing so he has
spent the last few days boasting to the
world about ringing the bell in the New York
Stock Exchange and receiving irrelevant,
illusionary, self-serving and absurd
commendations for absolutely nothing from
President Barack Obama. May God deliver us!
Permit me to make a painful observation
here. I was thoroughly appalled about the
fact that when our lamb President was
asked about the latest round of killings
during his live ”Presidential Media Chat”
programme on Sunday evening, he not only
told a lie to the world by claiming that only
”21 or 22 students were killed” at a time
when the BBC and CNN had confirmed that
at least 45 bodies had been found (more
were to be discovered later) but he also
failed to express his condolences to the
families of those that had lost their loved
ones. He made the same omission when he
failed to commiserate with or express his
condolences to the families of the soldiers
that were killed in Borno state whilst
fighting Boko Haram simply because they
ran out of bullets during the course of the
battle.
By way of contrast not only was he quick to
offer his condolences to the government
and people of Kenya for the terrible carnage
that was inflicted on them by Al Shabab last
Friday when 68 people were killed (I guess
that to him Nigerian blood is not as
expensive or as important as foreign blood)
but he was also quick to offer the Kenyan
government military assistance. If President
Uhuru Kenyatta decides to accept his offer
let us hope that our lamb President will give
enough bullets to the soldiers that he will
send. Our boys are deeply courageous
fighters and they certainly deserve that
much. They also deserve to have a
Commander in Chief that inspires them, that
watches their back and that gives them the
very best. May the souls of all those that have
been killed by Boko Haram in the last three
years rest in peace and may the Lord take
the leadership of this nation from the lamb
and give it to a lion king.

When a President announces to the world
that he is ”not a lion or a David”, as he did
exactly two years ago, no one should be
surprised when his people are killed like
flies before his very eyes. May God bring us a
real leader that can save our nation and may
He take away this one who feels no pain
and has no empathy when Nigerian blood,
nay even the blood of innocent children, is
shed with impunity. Under the tenure of our
”lamb” President, more innocent Nigerians
have been slaughtered by terrorists than at
any other time in the history of our country
except during the civil war.
What a mess! What a record! I continue to
ponder about one thing though- would the
President have been so unperturbed and
detached from the whole thing if the
children that were killed in their school
yesterday morning had been from his Niger
Delta area or from the east. It appears to me
that simply because those kids were
northerners, this President just ”doesn’t give
a damn”. What a tragedy! Whether Christian
or Muslim, northern or southern, these are
only children and they are NIGERIAN children
each of whom is entitled to the full
protection of the Nigerian state. I have said
it before and I shall say it again, Nigeria has
become an abattoir of human flesh and
blood under the tenure of President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and all those who
support him should bury their heads in
shame. The blood of all those innocent
people is on his hands because he swore to
an oath before God and the Nigerian people
to protect them from such evil. Instead of
getting on with his job and doing so he has
spent the last few days boasting to the
world about ringing the bell in the New York
Stock Exchange and receiving irrelevant,
illusionary, self-serving and absurd
commendations for absolutely nothing from
President Barack Obama. May God deliver us!
Permit me to make a painful observation
here. I was thoroughly appalled about the
fact that when our lamb President was
asked about the latest round of killings
during his live ”Presidential Media Chat”
programme on Sunday evening, he not only
told a lie to the world by claiming that only
”21 or 22 students were killed” at a time
when the BBC and CNN had confirmed that
at least 45 bodies had been found (more
were to be discovered later) but he also
failed to express his condolences to the
families of those that had lost their loved
ones. He made the same omission when he
failed to commiserate with or express his
condolences to the families of the soldiers
that were killed in Borno state whilst
fighting Boko Haram simply because they
ran out of bullets during the course of the
battle.
By way of contrast not only was he quick to
offer his condolences to the government
and people of Kenya for the terrible carnage
that was inflicted on them by Al Shabab last
Friday when 68 people were killed (I guess
that to him Nigerian blood is not as
expensive or as important as foreign blood)
but he was also quick to offer the Kenyan
government military assistance. If President
Uhuru Kenyatta decides to accept his offer
let us hope that our lamb President will give
enough bullets to the soldiers that he will
send. Our boys are deeply courageous
fighters and they certainly deserve that
much. They also deserve to have a
Commander in Chief that inspires them, that
watches their back and that gives them the
very best. May the souls of all those that have
been killed by Boko Haram in the last three
years rest in peace and may the Lord take
the leadership of this nation from the lamb
and give it to a lion king.

Permit me to end this contribution with the
following observations. As crude and
unpleasant as it may sound the question
must be asked – does our President have
any balls? Is he really a man? Does he have
what it takes to fight a war against terror or
is it that there is more to this than meets the
eye? Is there a sinister and diabolical
conspiracy and plan to ensure that elections
do not hold in the northeast and the
northwest in 2015 given the fact that those
areas are very hostile to the suggestion that
Jonathan should return to power that year?
Is this whole thing planned and contrived or
is it a case of chronic incompetence,
ineptitude and weakness? Does Jonathan
believe that it is in his interest for the north
to burn and for northern blood to be spilt?
Is the mindset of those that are pulling the
strings of the view that since the problem
has been (to use the President’s own words
in his last media chat) ”localised” and
”contained in a certain area” the
government can sit back and watch the
locals slaughter themselves whilst they
continue to drink champagne in the Villa
and fantasise about 2015? If that is the case
has it not occurred to them that their fellow
Nigerians live in those areas where the
problem has supposedly been ”localised”
and is the blood of those fellow Nigerians
not red as well? Are they less Nigerian
because of where they were born and who
they are? Are the people that live in the
villages and countryside not as important as
those who live in the towns and cities?
Whatever is really going on here God sees all
and anything that is not of Him will surely
fail. If it is nothing but weakness and
incompetence that has resulted in this
unprecedented carnage the President will
answer before God for violating his solemn
oath to protect the Nigerian people from
enemies within and from enemies without
and if it is a conspiracy to encourage and
create turmoil and chaos in the north just to
ensure that they are excluded from the vote
in 2015, both Jonathan himself and Nigeria
as a whole will reap the consequences. It is
worth noting that that is precisely what
happened in Mali in the elections that took
place before the north was taken over by
the Islamists and it led to a full scale civil
war. Any attempt to exclude any part of this
country from participating in the elections in
2015 under the guise of lack of security or
Boko Haram will result in the same thing
with catastrophic consequences for Nigeria.
Yet as Napolean Bonaparte once said, ”we
must never account to conspiracy what can
easily be explained away by incompetence”.
It is more likely than not that the situation
that is folding in the north-east and the
feeble fight that our government is putting
up against Boko Haram over there is down
to Jonathan’s weakness and nothing more.
So when asked the question is our President
capable of fighting the war against terror
my answer would be that I am afraid that I
doubt it very much. He just doesn’t have it in
him. As the former Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom Tony Blair once said about
John Major, his predecessor in office, he is
just ”weak, weak, and weak’’.

I am a great believer in strong government
and I am one of those that have always
believed that President Olusegun Obasanjo
was one of the best, if not the best, and
most effective leaders that we have ever had
in this country. I say this not because I had
the honour and privilege of serving in his
government but because, when it comes to
his record in public office, the facts and
figures speak for themselves. Not only are
they outstanding but also they are yet to be
matched and since he left office in 2007,
everything has gone to the dogs. Love him
or hate him one thing is clear- not under
Obasanjo’s watch would 7000 innocent
Nigerians be massacred at will in the space
of just two years by a bunch of murderous
and heartless terrorists. He would have
known exactly what to do and how to do it
to put a stop to such callous lawlessness
and anarchy right from the start. Equally
significant is the fact that such was his love
for Nigeria that regardless of the region,
ethnic group or religious faith that the
victims came from, espoused or belonged
to, his response to the terrorists would have
been swift, decisive and utterly ruthless. He
would have had Boko Haram in ”shock and
awe” and the whole world would have
marvelled at it. This is because in Obasanjo
we had a President who not only had balls
but who also had the courage, heart and
guts to match them.
The greatest error that we as a people ever
made and the worst tragedy and misfortune
that has ever befallen us as a nation is the
fact that a meek lamb ended up taking a
throne that was designed and prepared for
a lion. The unfortunate consequences of
that tragic error and misfortune are there
for all to see. The shedding of the blood of
even the youngest, the most innocent and
the most vulnerable in our society by Boko
Haram on a daily basis is an eloquent
testimony to that unsavoury fact.
www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/145917-president-without-balls-femi-fani-kayode.html

na u get your hand write... anitn .....

deep words. Worthy of reflection. More writers on public issues are surely needed in this country. I have always known that Nigerians value lives of foreigners more than themselves. Imagine, citizens dying in such horrifying circumstances and govt is just moving on as if nothing happened.

This yeye man will not shut up. Disgrace of a man, who has time to read garbage, is he done with his mistresses? Spits on article

And when he was there as Aviation Minister, I saw the ideas he put by leaving the airport worse than he met it.
What GEJ has done in the area of Aviation which is closet to your area is 100 times more than what you did (if any)
Talk is cheap

Terrorism is a very complex problem in the world today, US after spending trillions on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq have not yet removed terrorist from those lands. This terrorism fire ignited in Nigeria will never be contained, you can quote me anywhere, because these terrorists are not just evil but embodiment of inhuman characteristics, ask why will someone go and slaughter innocent young people in school, I just can't understand the type of mind set behind theses acts.
On the issue of the president, I watched the media chat for 2 mins, he had no grasp of things, no charisma etc I was nt happy with the performance, I think the president is weak in that area of public speaking, but I don't want to generalize that he is a weak man, I believe he has areas where he is both competent and strong.

This is one the reasons I concluded that literacy is not synonymous with developed "thinking faculty"


GEJ has skills in fishing, ability to nurture, organise and keep animals (domestic and wild) in a scientific way plus his lecturing experience.

The best for Nigeria will be to keep Femi Kayode in the custody of GEJ for rehabilitation.

In as Much As Fani-kayode is a Loquacious Speaker i See A Bit Of Sense In wat he says.

GEJ Should learn how to appreciate d lives of nigerians.
How can u refer to Boko Haram as ur siblings.... Gosh.
Okay Please tell Ur Siblings to stop wasting the Lives Of Precious Nigerians.

MAKE we Dey wait sha.
Mk we hear frm
A; ANOTHER
P; PROBLEM
C; COMING.
wertyn dem get to yarn

All i have to say is that Femi Fani Kayode is the worst minister Nigeria ever hard

Some of the weaknesses I have seen in our dear president are that he is not an orator and he is also shy, but these two qualities does not make a man weak. You might disagree with me, GEJ is a leader who thinks things through. He might not have the swag of OBJ or the oratory skills of Rochas but is that all we really need in a leader? On the issues raised by Fani, I know this writeup would have still slander the president had GEJ said he was a lion and David. The bottom line is this, if you choose to see only faults in a man, you will have many to see. God bless GEJ, God bless Nigeria.

Obj would have routed these Boko haram sharp sharp.

bloggernaija: Obj would have routed these Boko haram sharp sharp.

Exactly. I remember how he routed Odi and Zaki Biam. Yeah, he also routed Sharia.

Frank-C:


Exactly. I remember how he routed Odi and Zaki Biam. Yeah, he also routed Sharia.

Just imagine, many thought some of us here are fools! Some people here are fond of regurgitating psychobabbles......like the clown you quoted above! They've forgotten that it was so bad during Obj's time that two states (Ekiti and Plateau) were governed by ex-military administrators as a result of state of emergencies due to total breakdown of law and order!

tomakint:
Just imagine, many thought some of us here are fools! Some people here are fond of regurgitating psychobabbles......like the clown you quoted above! They've forgotten that it was so bad during Obj's time that two states (Ekiti and Plateau) were governed by ex-military administrators as a result of state of emergencies due to total breakdown of law and order!

Arindin tomakint the zombie! You have never been comfortable in your own skin and be your own man. All you do is forced friendship with other lost ibos like yourself. You have no friend and no one wants to be your friend except the Ibo dolts on nairaland. All you constantly do is to attack others by first quoting your fellow Ibos and use their post to indirectly attack whoever you disagree with. When are your going to grow some ballls and start wearing mens shorts? Stop wearing diapers and start being a man.

payless:
Arindin tomakint the zombie! You have never been comfortable in your own skin and be your own man. All you do is forced friendship with other lost ibos like yourself. You have no friend and no one wants to be your friend except the Ibo dolts on nairaland. All you constantly do is to attack others by first quoting your fellow Ibos and use their post to indirectly attack whoever you disagree with.

Son, stop whatever you are smoking you are too small for me

tomakint:
Son, stop whatever you are smoking you are too small for me

The person you just called "son" is about to punch you in the face and gets you smacker-fvcker.

This sick FFK!