TOP 5 WORST “DEMOCRATICALLY
ELECTED PRESIDENTS” IN AFRICA
By Isidore Kpotufe
For many, democracy is the most suitable
– if not the best political system for
Africa. But a more serious analyses shows
that this political system, regarded as the
“best” has done more harm than good to
“ordinary Africans” – simply because it is
an imported one. Not when it [democracy]
means civil war, tribal conflict, lie, steal
etc. Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Libya, Senegal, the
two Sudans, Nigeria...are all evidence to
attest to this assertion.
Africa should look for a political system in
harmony with indigenous African values and
practices and institutions that will better
work for the populace especially the poor
who are worst hit by the crimes of the
“terrorist leaders”. Not a single African
country has been able to achieve greater
heights of economic freedom and prosperity
of her population under the current western
style democratic jurisdictions.
1. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan – Nigeria (scores
30%)
The current Nigerian Government led by
Goodluck Jonathan appears to be more than
incompetent, in fact non-existent. The future
of the country and its youth-dominated
population has been put into jeopardy by
careless leaders. Corruption and economic
crimes have assumed an unimaginable larger
than life dimension since Jonathan’s
assumption of office (though corruption has
existed all this while in Nigeria, the difference
is that it’s becoming the order of the day)
and the statutory institutions created to
combat these hydra-headed monsters of
economic crimes (EFCC and ICPC) have lost
their way giving political office-holders like
governors and ministers the opportunity to
feast on public funds kept in their care.
President Jonathan’s daughter recently
received over 80 unjustifiable luxury cars for
her traditional wedding ceremony: this is a
well calculated corruption in daylight. The
consequence is that basic infrastructure such
as roads and electricity have become
comatose, resulting in unemployment because
factories and operators in the real
manufacturing sector are closing shops.
Bomb blasts are regular as Boko Haram, the
much talked about Islamic sect intensifies
deadly attacks on daily basis – with an
unprecedented one being the abduction of
more than 200 female students in Chibock,
Borno State. And bizarrely, Mr. Jonathan has
remained highly insensitive to the plight of
many Nigerians on the issue to extent that he
paradoxically admits Boko Haram form part
of his government.
2. Uruhu Kenyatta – Kenya (scores 35%)
Kenya’s case for democracy is a more than an
interesting one. Its political leaders have
endangered the country’s destiny in the name
of western style democracy in a bid to
actually satisfy their parochial interest.
Politicians like Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga,
William Wruto and Uruhu Kenyatta are all
selfish leaders who threw the country into
havoc – and some continue to do so. Kibaki
and Odinga were responsible for the death of
more than 1 000 people and the
displacement of nearly half a million others.
Today Uruhu Kenyatta and William Ruto are
president and vice president respectively and
they have not been able to be up to
expectations. Under their watch, the
populace feel more and more uncertain and
hopeless about the future as insecurity,
tribalism...cripple down the economy.
3. John Dramani Mahama – Ghana (scores
35%)
President Mahatma’s term in office has been
characterised by increasing hardships and
hopelessness of the populace in the economy.
Mahama is leading a country considered as
the “gateway” to West Africa, regarded as
“true model” of democracy in Africa and
whose economy has all these years been
described as vibrant. But beyond the surface
of these descriptions, there are darker sides:
constant increase in price of petroleum
products, mismanagement of public funds,
corrupt activities, incompetence and
immaturity on the side of his ministers to
provide solutions to some of the country’s
basic problems and implement policies in the
interest of the larger population are among
challenges facing the country under his
leadership.
Some public schools do not have chalks,
school feeding programs are stuck because
they are in arrears, the county is currently in
the state of power shortages resulting in
electricity cut-outs practically on daily bases,
graduate unemployment is on the rise, the
educational sector is constrained with huge
challenges; in the midst of all these problems
Mr. Mahama solicited a $156 million World
Bank loan facility of which a colossal amount
will be used for the distribution of free
sanitary pads to school girls.
Demonstrations, strikes and popular protest
are some of the legacies he would have left at
the end of his tenure.
4. Jacob Zumah – South Africa (scores 40%)
President Zuma’s government has lurched
from one scandal to the next over the years
and the country’s economy is failing to grow
despite the never-ending promises of the
president. In South Africa like in many other
African countries, the justice system is being
manipulated to favour and protect those at
the very top. Corruption is at its highest
echelon, with the president most certainly
leading from the front. The education system
being so fragile cannot get some of the most
basic things right. Industrial strikes, nepotism
and tribalism are becoming the orders of the
day as the political system gets more and
more convoluted. One palpable example is
the nomination of Zuma’s daughter aged 25
in a top ministerial position.
5. Allassane Dramane Ouattara – Côte d’Ivoire
(scores 40%)
Mr. Ouattara is sitting on a “throne of
blood”. He could not have assumed the office
of the presidency without a strong backing of
western powers to mention France in this
regard. The French military forces together
with United Nations’ helped to overthrow
Laurent Gbagbo, former Ivorian president
accused of being a dictator following his
refusal to concede defeat when he was
alleged to have lost the November 2010
presidential election to then opposition
leader and now president of Ivory Coast
Allassane Dramane Ouattara. During this
period about 3,000 people were killed in
fights opposing the loyalist forces of the then
two presidential rivals, Mr. Ouattara and Mr.
Gbagbo and over 50 women were raped.
After his assumption of the presidency,
President Ouattara was expected to use his
presidential power to influence the
reconciliation process and that unity and
peace be brought back in the country – it is
surprisingly the opposite. He is using the
victor’s justice to protect allies and loyalists.
The world largest producer of cocoa has
basic infrastructural challenges; and the
living condition of the hardworking farmers
remains very undesirable.
Isidore Kpotufe is a blogger and web
journalist.

GEJ aint that good all-round buh he aint that bad either. Who gave him 30% sef? I smell beef

directimport: TOP 5 WORST “DEMOCRATICALLY
ELECTED PRESIDENTS” IN AFRICA
By Isidore Kpotufe
For many, democracy is the most suitable
– if not the best political system for
Africa. But a more serious analyses shows
that this political system, regarded as the
“best” has done more harm than good to
“ordinary Africans” – simply because it is
an imported one. Not when it [democracy]
means civil war, tribal conflict, lie, steal
etc. Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Libya, Senegal, the
two Sudans, Nigeria...are all evidence to
attest to this assertion.
Africa should look for a political system in
harmony with indigenous African values and
practices and institutions that will better
work for the populace especially the poor
who are worst hit by the crimes of the
“terrorist leaders”. Not a single African
country has been able to achieve greater
heights of economic freedom and prosperity
of her population under the current western
style democratic jurisdictions.
1. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan – Nigeria (scores
30%)
The current Nigerian Government led by
Goodluck Jonathan appears to be more than
incompetent, in fact non-existent. The future
of the country and its youth-dominated
population has been put into jeopardy by
careless leaders. Corruption and economic
crimes have assumed an unimaginable larger
than life dimension since Jonathan’s
assumption of office (though corruption has
existed all this while in Nigeria, the difference
is that it’s becoming the order of the day)
and the statutory institutions created to
combat these hydra-headed monsters of
economic crimes (EFCC and ICPC) have lost
their way giving political office-holders like
governors and ministers the opportunity to
feast on public funds kept in their care.
President Jonathan’s daughter recently
received over 80 unjustifiable luxury cars for
her traditional wedding ceremony: this is a
well calculated corruption in daylight. The
consequence is that basic infrastructure such
as roads and electricity have become
comatose, resulting in unemployment because
factories and operators in the real
manufacturing sector are closing shops.
Bomb blasts are regular as Boko Haram, the
much talked about Islamic sect intensifies
deadly attacks on daily basis – with an
unprecedented one being the abduction of
more than 200 female students in Chibock,
Borno State. And bizarrely, Mr. Jonathan has
remained highly insensitive to the plight of
many Nigerians on the issue to extent that he
paradoxically admits Boko Haram form part
of his government.
2. Uruhu Kenyatta – Kenya (scores 35%)
Kenya’s case for democracy is a more than an
interesting one. Its political leaders have
endangered the country’s destiny in the name
of western style democracy in a bid to
actually satisfy their parochial interest.
Politicians like Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga,
William Wruto and Uruhu Kenyatta are all
selfish leaders who threw the country into
havoc – and some continue to do so. Kibaki
and Odinga were responsible for the death of
more than 1 000 people and the
displacement of nearly half a million others.
Today Uruhu Kenyatta and William Ruto are
president and vice president respectively and
they have not been able to be up to
expectations. Under their watch, the
populace feel more and more uncertain and
hopeless about the future as insecurity,
tribalism...cripple down the economy.
3. John Dramani Mahama – Ghana (scores
35%)
President Mahatma’s term in office has been
characterised by increasing hardships and
hopelessness of the populace in the economy.
Mahama is leading a country considered as
the “gateway” to West Africa, regarded as
“true model” of democracy in Africa and
whose economy has all these years been
described as vibrant. But beyond the surface
of these descriptions, there are darker sides:
constant increase in price of petroleum
products, mismanagement of public funds,
corrupt activities, incompetence and
immaturity on the side of his ministers to
provide solutions to some of the country’s
basic problems and implement policies in the
interest of the larger population are among
challenges facing the country under his
leadership.
Some public schools do not have chalks,
school feeding programs are stuck because
they are in arrears, the county is currently in
the state of power shortages resulting in
electricity cut-outs practically on daily bases,
graduate unemployment is on the rise, the
educational sector is constrained with huge
challenges; in the midst of all these problems
Mr. Mahama solicited a $156 million World
Bank loan facility of which a colossal amount
will be used for the distribution of free
sanitary pads to school girls.
Demonstrations, strikes and popular protest
are some of the legacies he would have left at
the end of his tenure.
4. Jacob Zumah – South Africa (scores 40%)
President Zuma’s government has lurched
from one scandal to the next over the years
and the country’s economy is failing to grow
despite the never-ending promises of the
president. In South Africa like in many other
African countries, the justice system is being
manipulated to favour and protect those at
the very top. Corruption is at its highest
echelon, with the president most certainly
leading from the front. The education system
being so fragile cannot get some of the most
basic things right. Industrial strikes, nepotism
and tribalism are becoming the orders of the
day as the political system gets more and
more convoluted. One palpable example is
the nomination of Zuma’s daughter aged 25
in a top ministerial position.
5. Allassane Dramane Ouattara – Côte d’Ivoire
(scores 40%)
Mr. Ouattara is sitting on a “throne of
blood”. He could not have assumed the office
of the presidency without a strong backing of
western powers to mention France in this
regard. The French military forces together
with United Nations’ helped to overthrow
Laurent Gbagbo, former Ivorian president
accused of being a dictator following his
refusal to concede defeat when he was
alleged to have lost the November 2010
presidential election to then opposition
leader and now president of Ivory Coast
Allassane Dramane Ouattara. During this
period about 3,000 people were killed in
fights opposing the loyalist forces of the then
two presidential rivals, Mr. Ouattara and Mr.
Gbagbo and over 50 women were raped.
After his assumption of the presidency,
President Ouattara was expected to use his
presidential power to influence the
reconciliation process and that unity and
peace be brought back in the country – it is
surprisingly the opposite. He is using the
victor’s justice to protect allies and loyalists.
The world largest producer of cocoa has
basic infrastructural challenges; and the
living condition of the hardworking farmers
remains very undesirable.
Isidore Kpotufe is a blogger and web
journalist.

rubbish:

Na wa oo..na so u hate Jonathan reach?No 1?...does it mean that he is this bad??..

NaijaChild: Na wa oo..na so u hate Jonathan reach?No 1?...does it mean that he is this bad??..

of the thirty six states onky 3 states are having insecurity problem which are inherited from previous maladministration.
Economically gej is trying is best to make sure nigeria is among the to economy in the world.

Any list without the South Sudanese president who's presidency is as horrible as his appearance is incomplete!!!

Incase

Despite the fact that I'm not his fan, I disagree with Jonathan taking the first spot even among the listed five, he still couldn't have been the worst.

Too bad, The Op jst created this thread in order to mock our president and some bad belle will follow suit.

Compiled by ACN

Kizmarty:







rubbish:

Big rubbish! Nigeria is still better than most African countries. Take it or leave it!

Lemme guess who #1 is?
The DUNCE of OTU!

Na real wa!

This must be a big insult to Nigeria.

U had to compose this just to diss GEJ.Why not just create a diss thread for him intstead of camouflaging it with a st.upid list

NICE write op. GEJ monumental failure

The Nigerian economy is growing despite our security challenges while in South Sudan ethnic cleansing is the order of the day, Egypt is a great mockery of anything called democracy, Libya is in another catastrophe etc. GEJ may not be the best in Africa, but certainly he isn't among the worst.

stu*id list so in d whole of African Jonathan iz d worst op 4 ur information Nigeria iz one of d most developed countries in africa after south Africa, and Egypt our GDP iz d highest in d whole of Africa GEj iz 1 of d top 5 best president in Africa and d best Nigeria has ever had u jx wrote diz list based on ur hatred 4 GEJ hw much did APC members pay u to post diz rubbish?

Rubbish list!

I am not surprised.

#GEJOut

Op you are not making sense at all , Do not hate your enemies, it clouds your judgement .....Try and get something doing ok , I promise you ,U won't have time for all these

This list was compiled in the pit of fucckery where lies and deciets is the order of the day.

GEJ might not be the best in Africa but he's sure not the worst, during he's tenure Nigeria got the highest GDP in Africa, just tell me what else you expect from a President?

I think it's high time the APC stopped being sentimental and say the truth in it's undiluted form.

the author of this crap is a blithering fvctard

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Nonsense...

Is there really any better president in Africa

OP this lies you are sharing dere is God oo.

Do you hate Mr president so much that you have to create this thread just to mock him?

Ebele is a very dangerous disease, that if not tackle in time will transform into EBOLA .

No fit carry last

Ibnsultan: NICE write op. GEJ monumental failure

Do you believe jacob zuma(south africa) and uhuru kenyatta(kenya) are really worse than yoweri moseveni of uganda. A poll about goverment performance ranked kenyatta as third best performing president in africa.
Or are you in support just because of GEJ

Where is Uganda SLEEPING president in that list, this grandfather slept off during national budget presentation.

Djicemob: U had to compose this just to diss GEJ.Why not just create a diss thread for him intstead of camouflaging it with a st.upid list

Just the way Jonathan camouflaged Alams' pardon by doing so alongside other people with the hope Nigerians are so gullible and wouldn't see through the transparent veil.

Yeye dey oooze for your post bro.

Omexonomy: of the thirty six states onky 3 states are having insecurity problem which are inherited from previous maladministration.
Economically gej is trying is best to make sure nigeria is among the to economy in the world.

Only three states?
What do you say about the killings in the states of Kaduna and Kano?

Quit the complacency. There's insecurity almost everywhere!