The Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, has faulted claim by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari, that Nigeria has been reduced to a failed state.

Omokri argued that there are challenges confronting the country but Nigeria is not a failed state, stressing that it is unfortunate that a former Head of state and a presidential hopeful will speak ill of his country.

“With due respect sir, Nigeria is not a ‘failed state’. Yes, we do have some challenges but true leaders do not condemn their nation to the world, “he said.

Omokri reminded Gen. Buhari that Nigeria is making giant strides that place it among the respected countries in the world.

“Do failed states defeat Ebola, be the world’s 3rd fastest growing economy, be investors’ destination and the largest economy in Africa?” Omokri queried.

Recalled that Buhari in an interview on Al Jazeera, Sunday, said that the “government has failed in its principal duty of protecting life or property of all beings inside its territory”.

Although there is no general consensus on the definition, a failed state is a state perceived as having failed at some of the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government.

Some of the characteristics of failed state are loss of control of its territory, or of the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force therein, erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions, inability to provide public services and inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community

Obasanjo/Atiku had 8 years but couldnt fix power!!!
Fashola and Tinubu had 16years in lagos they
couldnt fix all the roads in lagos and couldnt give
lagosians portable water to mention few.
GEJ has spent 5years + as President of over 170m
people and they want
him to overnight turn Nigeria into a paradise. They
call him names,
Clueless, Foolish, some even said he is stupid
e.t.c. But...
(1) He built 150 almajiri schools.
Yet Goodluck is bad.
(2) He revived railway that was comatose for over
28yrs. Lagos-
Kano route,Lagos-Southern Ogun air condition
train route,Ajaokuta-Warri standard gauge route,
PH-Enugu airconditioned train route, PH Maiduguri
train route, Kaduna intra- city train
routes,Makurdi-PH airconditioned train route,
Abuja- Kaduna standard guage route. Work on
Lagos-Ibadan standard guage route ongoing. And
about to kickstart Lagos-Calabar coastal railway
route. Yet Goodluck is bad.
(3) He established 12 federal universities.Yet
Goodluck is bad.
Massive road reconstruction across the country
(25000km). Benin-
Ore road, Abuja-Lokoja expressway, Enugu-
Abakaliki, Onitsha-
Owerri road, Kaduna-Maiduguri road, East-West
road, Parts of PH-
Enugu road &Lagos-Ibadan 8-lane road ongoing.
Yet Goodluck is
bad.
(4 ) Construction of 2nd Niger Bridge is
ongoing..Yet Goodluck is
bad.
( 5) He dredged River Niger..Yet Goodluck is bad.
(6) Improved power supply from 2500mw to
6000mw and
implanted 10 new power plants..Yet Goodluck is
bad.
( 7) He revived the automobile industry with the
new automobile
policy spurring Nissan&Hyundai e.t.c to assemble/
produce cars in
Nigeria and the emergence of Indigenous
automobile company the
INNOSON group now producing locally made in
Nigeria cars, SUVs
and trucks known as the IVM motors First in the
history of Nigeria,
She joined the commodity of car manufacturing
countries..Yet
Goodluck is bad.
( He remodeled airports to international
standard,built five new
airport terminals in PH, Lagos,Kano, Abuja &
Enugu. First in the
history of Nigeria, the East now have an
international airport..Yet
Goodluck is bad.
(9 ) He signed freedom of information(FOI) bill past
leaders refused
to sign..Yet Jonathan is bad.
(10) He revamped the agricultural sector. Nigeria
now the largest producer of cassava in the world
with 45million metric tonnes-FAO, the largest
exporter of cassava chips to China and have
unprecedented 60% sufficient in rice
production.Yet Goodluck is bad.
(11) He gave women 35% affirmative to women
participation in
governance which saw the emergence of Muktar as
the first ever
female Chief Justice of Nigeria..
Yet Goodluck is bad.
(12) He was able to contain the outbreak of Ebola
disease..
Yet Goodluck is bad.
(13) No more long queues at filling stations..Yet
Goodluck is bad.
(14) Nigeria manufacture her first ever locally made
drone..
Yet Goodluck is badj
(15) He signed local content act. Nigeria now have
400 tankers
transporting crude oil.Previously it was 60 tankers.
Yet Goodluck is
bad.
(16) His government recorded an unprecedented
achievement in
sports, best sporting performance in the history of
country..Yet
Goodluck is bad.
(17) Nigeria is now the largest economy in Africa
and the
3rd fastest growing economy in the world after
China and Qatar--
CNN..Yet Goodluck is bad.
(18) He made it possible for Nigeria to conduct the
most free, fair &
credible election in the history of the country (2011
election). Yet
Goodluck is bad.
(19) He does not interfere with the electoral and
judiciary
system.Elections in Imo, Anambra,Osun, Ondo and
Edo are examples. In the
history of Nigeria, is only in his government the
opposition
controlled large number of states and controlled
greater number of
seats in the National Assembly..Yet Goodluck is
bad.
(20) Under his government,political assassination
and
assassination of high profile Nigerians is now a
thing of the past.
Who killed Dele Giwa, Bola Ige, FunshoWilliams,
Marshall Harry,
Aminisoari Dikibo,Alfred Rewane, Ken Saro Wiwa,
Kudirat
Abiola,NBA chairman Barnabas Igwe and his wife
Abigail Igwe? In
whose governments were all these murdered? I
can go on and give
you about 100 high profile political assassination
in Obasanjo's
civilian rule alone..Yet President Goodluck
Jonathan is bad and so
unacceptable to you.
(21) GEJ approved 2,564 vehicles for police for free
and fair elections and some bad eggs still complain
that he is not working.
I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY NIGERIANS WILL
BE JUDGED
NOT BY THE DIALECT THEY SPEAK BUT BY THE
CONTENT OF
THEIR CHARACTER. I hereby challenge anybody to
bring forward
the achievements of Buhari, Babangida, Abacha and
Obasanjo.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA AND PUNISH THE ENEMIES OF
NIGERIA.

itetemi:
you wouldn't know if you see one cos you are as super clueless as oga Jonny walker.