jascon1:
Babasanjo is an ugly pireek

He is 1000 times far more Handsome than you and your generation

We like it or not this country is run by a powerful cabal which obasanjo is a member ibb is a member Abdulsalam also is a member. OBJ negotiated with this cabal for one term for GEJ and wen it looked like he wasn't going to happen he decided on self destroy for the platform in which he was running. OBJ had to deliver on his promise of on behalf of GEJ else he faced grave consequences in the cabal, just try and remember all the attackings on GEJ they were all strategically planned. What should concern us is the next line of action of the cabal with the APC. The northerners have developed a system to work with this cabal, but I'm afraid the southerners still don't understand its Concept talk less of having directorial stakes there, they all want to be in the centre instead of yearning to control what happens in the centre. I see Tinubu joining this cabal as they only take members by merit, and he has proved to them that he belongs in the cabal.

HungerBAD:
I personally voted against Jonathan because of his wife.

That woman is OUT OF CONTROL and another 4 Years of Power would have seen her slapping Governors.

Jonathan is a weakling of a man, and Nigeria do not need weaklings.

He should as a matter of priority first work on his home front, and then we can take him serious. A man that can not tell his wife to dial down the tone with her Bus/Garage Rhetoric's and antics is not a man.

There are few people who reason, you my friend have great wisdom and intelligence.even if no one has told you, you better know that today.
You can imagine this report of his wife being uncontrollable appearing in wikileaks!!
I know of an army general whose nae was skipped as next chief of army staff because of his wife.

Men still deny that women to a very large extend build or destroy them. If they like they should have mistresses, their wives are still paramount to their success

Just imagine what she did in this election in rivers

The tale now over, we can look at the real reasons PDP failed. The owl cries in the night and a child dies in the morning, it must be the witch that did it. This sums up Nnana,s thesis on the demise of PDP.

Without writing volumes, the PDP failed because it consistently was anti people. Obasanjo was a mere catalyst to its disintegration. And I predict that if APC follows their foot steps, they will also be gone, sooner than later.

Jonathan by his weak leadership sealed the coffin with several big nails. Don't blame it on anyone else.[/quote]

Thanks for this!! If not for the card readers that helped reduce rigging, PDP may have had its way. All we need now is a sustained improvement on what Jega has started; possibly we may be looking at some form of electronic voting model where we will have machines (card readers) stationed all over to enable you vote as if you are using your ATM card. The permanent solution to the myriad of problems in Nigeria is the return of power to the people; the votes must count and the people therefore, will always be at liberty to always choose who oversees their affairs.

gabicon:
We like it or not this country is run by a powerful cabal which obasanjo is a member ibb is a member Abdulsalam also is a member. OBJ negotiated with this cabal for one term for GEJ and wen it looked like he wasn't going to happen he decided on self destroy for the platform in which he was running. OBJ had to deliver on his promise of on behalf of GEJ else he faced grave consequences in the cabal, just try and remember all the attackings on GEJ they were all strategically planned. What should concern us is the next line of action of the cabal with the APC. The northerners have developed a system to work with this cabal, but I'm afraid the southerners still don't understand its Concept talk less of having directorial stakes there, they all want to be in the centre instead of yearning to control what happens in the centre. I see Tinubu joining this cabal as they only take members by merit, and he has proved to them that he belongs in the cabal.

My dear major financies are the northerners correct that part of them knowing how to work with the cabal.

Am sorry but northerners are very selfish and materialistic also lazy observe how they prefer working in government.anytime I enter ministries or paradtatals they are full everywhere

Look at their states, they can't put thewir house in order but wish to put nigeria in order??

Ok

may be this OP write up is true , however , if Jonathan ; THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF of this country had fulfilled only one of his promises i.e., the electrification of Nigeria ( up to 70 percent) , obasanjo will be powerless ,the truth and lets be honest for once , Jonathan did not perform brilliantly well as a president and he indirectly empowered the APC ..and here we are

Granting state pardon is what you do when you have no other elections to contest! GEJ granted it in the middle of his first term, that was unwise.

I became worried when I noticed that for whatever reason, PDP changed their slogan from "POWER TO THE PEOPLE'' to ''POWER''. So they practically became too arrogant and carefree that they didn't think power still remained with the people.

What a lesson for generations to come. Meanwhile, I'm still as sympathetic to PDP as I am to ARSENAL. Real men stay whether good or bad. In fact, I am finalizing arrangements to pick my party card now that unwanted elements are exiting. We shall rebuild a really strong party and give the power back to the real owners - the people.

jayfolarin:
Was it Obasanjo that stopped jonathan from building the 2nd niger bridge?

Did obj blackmail jonathan into not building new refineries and maintaining the existing ones?

Was it obasanjo that told Gej not to fulfil his promise of a stable electricity for nigerians in 4 years?

Abi it was Obj that wrongly advised jonathan to go about dancing shoki barely 24hours after Nyanya bomb blast?

Please stop this 'everybody against Gej campaign'!! Mr President was the sole cause of his own downfall. He failed nigerians and we treated his f.uckup at the polls. Simple

nothing unusual happened at the polls, Christians vote Christians n Muslims voted Muslims. simple ... Even if gej gave us 1 million megawatt n provided employment for all Nigerians, he will still lose

oluwafemi113:
It wasn't Baba OBJ fault ooooo


We Nigerians voted him out because we needed change



.

Lol, the election has nothing to do with gej performance

Demdem:
Jonah-daft destroyed PDP and not OBJ. OBJ did everything within his power to remedy the glory of the party and even went ahead to write the drunkard an open letter but the otueke fool was stiffnecked. He allowed sycophants and nonentities to advise him which led to his downfall.

On the contrary, I think GEJ tactfully masterminded the downfall of PDP.

Now that they have been taken down, there is room for re-structuring as most of the hawks will defect.

That's brings to mind the comment from Lai Mohammed recently asking the losers to stay in their party.

Nice article.

That man represents nothing but his own clueless and selfish interest.

More than 11 years of ruining the country by him.

[quote author=seunfly post=32770732]This writer must have smoked cow dump otherwise who will write that Obj destroyed PDP when we know Gej destroyed it by himself.


the writer gets personal issues wit obj! d writer should have themed d write up as hw obj fall n hw he try to fall gej.

SHARIAREPORTERS:
Don't ever trust a yoruba man

HATE COMMENTS LIKE THIS SHOULD BE CONDEMNED BY ALL WELL-MEANING NIGERIANS IN NL FORUM. HOW CAN A COUNTRY DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF STAND??

Jona wz a victim of circumstances

[quote author=Akmarshal post=32775060][/quote]

Don't mind the bitter writers who love to rewrite history at any opportunity they get.

How are people so shameless. All-round incapability is your problem. Obasanjo left government 8 years ago, jonathan and his Ijaw/SE brothers greedily took over 6 years ago without thinking, how illogical and shameless can you blame Obasanjo for your grand complexity and absolute lack of knowledge how to run a national government that made you lose re-election in the midst of infinite money and power.?

W

[b]VANGUARD NEWSPAPER OWNED BY GEN IBB SPRDEAING LIES.
SEE NIGERIANS I KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH AND I WILL REVEAL IT HERE
GEN IBB FORMED THE PDP IN HIS HOUSE, HE EVEN SAID IT WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH VANGUARD AFTER AIT AIRED THAT DOCUMENTARY ON GEJ 4 DAYS TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.IN THAT DOCUMENTARY THE FORMER MILITARY ADMINISTRATIONS WERE CONDEMNED IN STRONG TERMS, SOMETHING THAT GOT GEN IBB VERY ANGRY .IN THE INTERVIEW IBB BOASTED ABOUT THE MILITARY AND HOW IN OTHER COUNTRIES MILITARY RULERS HAVE GONE ON TO BE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS. HE BOASTED THE PDP WAS FORMED IN HIS HOUSE.
NOW TALKING ABOUT PDP, PDP WAS FORMED BY IBB . THE PLAN WAS TO GIVE POWER BACK TO THE SOUTH WEST AFTER DENYING THEM IN JUNE 12 1993. THE DECIDED THAT OBJ WHO WAS BROUGHT OUT OF JAIL WILL BE MADE PRESIDENT. DESPITE ALEX EKWEUME WINNING THE PDP PRIMARIES OBJ WAS SELECTED AS THE FLAG BEARER FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.WE ALL KNOW THE REST
NOW BACK TO THE PDP AND ITS TROUBLES, WHEN GEJ BECAME PRESIDENT HE DID SOME THINGS THAT INFURIATE SOME NORTHERN LEADERS FOR EXAMPLE HE STOPPED THE PAYMENT OF GHOST WORKERS IN THE NORTH, A PRACTICE THAT WAS GULPING MORE THAN 1 BILLION NAIRA. THE NORTHERN LEADERS WERE NOT HAPPY BECAUSE THE YOUTHS IN THE NIGER DELTA WERE RECEIVING MONTHLY PAYMENT IN THE FORM OF AMNESTY PROGRAMME , THEY FELT CHEATED. ANOTHER GEJ DID THAT GOT THE NORTH ANGRY WAS HE ENSURED THAT OTHER REGIONS IN THE COUNTRY WHO HAS SONS IN THE MILITARY WERE HAVING A FAIR SHARE OF PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY UNLIKE THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS WERE ONLY NORTHERN MILITARY OFFICERS WERE HOLING KEY POSITIONS IN THE ARMY. A WELL KNOWN FACT IN THIS STORY IS THE MAKING OF IHEJERIKA AS THE CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF . THE FIRST TIME A PERSON FROM SOUTH EAST WILL HOLD SUCH SENSITIVE POSITION IN TH ARMY AFTER OVER 40 YEARS.
THIS AND SO MORE DECISIONS GOT OBJ , IBB, ABDUSALAMI AND OTHER NORTHERN LEADERS ANGRY.
THAT WAS WHY THEY BEGAN TO FURSTRATE THE GEJ ADMINISTRATION.
OBJ HAS LOST HIS POWER AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY , HE NOW HAD LESS INFLUENCE.
HE TRIED SO HARD TO GAIN RELEVANCE, THAT WAS WHY HE WROTE THOSE LETTERS TO GEJ.
NOW SINCE THE FOUNDERS OF THE PARTY IBB COULDN'T CONTROL THE PARTY PDP BECAUSE AS PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY GEJ HAD MORE CONTROL.
THEY DECIDED THE BEST OPTION TO WRSTLE THE GOVERNMENT FROM GEJ AND DESTROY HIS 2ND TERM BID WAS TO FORM ANOTHER PARTY INVOLVING MERGING OF OTHER OPPOSITION PARTY.
IBB USED HIS BOY TOM IKIMI TO FORM THE APC. REMEMBER TOM IKIMI CLAIMING BEFORE THE ELECTIONS THAT THR APC WAS FORMED IN HIS HOUSE BUT HE LEFT THE PARTY WHEN HE DISCOVERED THE LEVEL OF HATE, NEGATIVE AGENDA OF THE PARTY.
NOW STILL ON APC FORMATION, THE INITIATORS OF THE PARTY DECIDED IN OTHER TO HAVE A STRONGHOLD AND WIDE SPREAD SUPPORT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THEY NEEDED TO FORM A STRONG AN ALLIANCE WITH A REGION OF THE COUNTRY THAT WAS VERY INFLUENTIAL IN THE 2011 ELECTIONS.
THAT REGION WAS THE SOUTH WEST, THEY HELPED GEJ WIN AND MADE BUHARI LOOSE IN 2011.
THEY NEEDED A VERY PROMINENT LEADER FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND THAT LEADER WAS BOLA TINUBU.
HE AGREED TO THE MERGER.
NEXT THE NEEDED SOMEONE FROM THE SAME REGION WITH GEJ WHO CAN HELP CREATE A STRONG OPPOSSITION AND SPLIT VOTES IN THE REGION.
THAT MAN WAS GOV AMAECHI . HE AS THE BEST OPTION CONSIDERING THE FACT HE HAD A LONG STANDING BATTLE WITH THE PRESIDENCY, HIS STATE HAD THE FUNDS TO FINANCE THE ELECTIONS, AND HIS STATE RIVERS STATE HAD PRODUCED THE HIGHEST NUMBERS OF VOTES FOR PDP PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN 1999,2003,2011.
TO WIN AMAECHI OVER , GEN IBB USED HIS NEWSPAPER VANGUARD.
DURING VANGUARD ANNUAL GALA NIGHT, GOV ROTIMI AMAECHI WAS GIVEN THE AWARD OF NIGERIAN MAN OF THE YEAR. DURING THAT NIGHT AMAECHI IN HIS SPEECH PRAISED GEN IBB AND IBB IN RETURN DID SAME.
AMAECHI WILL LATER HOLD A SECRET MEETING WITH IBB , THERE THE PLAN OF THE '' NEW ORDER'' WHICH AMAECHI'S DEPUTY TALKED ABOUT AFTER HIS SHOCK RETURN BACK TO THE PDP, WILL BE REVEALED TO GOV AMAECHI.

IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS PLAN OBJ WAS KEPT OUT OF THE LOOP , BOT WILL BE LATER INFORMED ABOUT THE ''NEW ORDER''.
OBJ PROBABLY DINT LIKE THE IDEA , BUT BEEN A SLAVE TO IBB AND THE NORTH WILL BE FORCED TO ACCEPT IT.
OBJ WILL LATER BEGIN TO DISPLAY ANTI PDP ANTICS, LIKE HOLDING HOST TO THE APC IN HIS RESIDENCE, HOLDING INTERVIEWS WHERE HE ATTACKED THE GEJ PERSONALITY AND HIS ADMINISTRATION ,EXTOLLING THE QUALITIES OF APC CANDIDATE MAJ GEN BUHARI, TEARING HIS PDP MEMBERSHIP CARD IN PUBLIC, ACCUSE THE GEJ ADMINISTRATION OF PLANNING A COUP IF GEJ LOSES THE ELECTIONS.
THE APC KNEW THAT THE PDP BEEN THE RULLING PARTY HAD THE POWER TO RIG THE ELECTIONS , SO THE APC NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING. THEY HAD INFILTRATE INEC . THEY ENSURED THE USE OF VOTERS CARD READER. A MACHINE WHICH PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACT WILL BE GIVEN TO A CLOSE FRIEND OF BUHARI. WE ALL REMEMBER THE RUMOR OF THE DSS INVADNG THE APC OFFICE WHERE MANUALS OF HACKING WERE FOUND, RUMOUR A DAY TO THE ELECTION OF HOW THE DSS WAS INTERROGATING THE CEO OF THE COMPANY THAT PRODUCED CARD READERS.
NOW I WANT TO SPEAK IBB AND HIS ACTIONS.
GEN IBB DISPLAYED SOME ANTI PDP BODY LANGUAGES AN SOME PRO GEJ SUPPORT BODY LANGUAGE THAT GOT GEJ CONFUSED ON IBB'S SUPPORT FOR HIS 2ND TERM BID. EXAMPLE OF HIS INTERVIEW WHERE HE TALKED ABOUT ANNULEMENT OF JUNE 12 ELECTIONS, IN THAT INTERVIEW HE CONDEMNED THE GEJ ADMINISTRATION OF CORRUPTION , CITING O STORY OF HOW 500 MILLION WAS FOUND UNDER SOMEONES BED, COMPARING THE ACTS SAYING WHEN HE LOOS AT WHAT IS HAPPENING AND COMPARES HIS TENURE AS MILITARY PRESIDENT , THEN THEY(HIS ADMINISRATION) WERE SAINTS. IN THAT SAME INTERVIEW HE PRAISED GEJ AS A LEADER THAT UNITES THE COUNTRY.
IN ANOTHER INTERVIEW AFTER GEJ HAD VISITED GEN IBB AFTER HE RETURNED FROM 8 WEEKS TREATMENT ABROAD. GEN IBB TALKED ABOUT THE VISIT OF GEJ ,HOW HE TOOK GEJ IN HIS BEDROOM TO ADVICE HIM SAYING THAT HE TOLD GEJ THAT HE SHOULD NEVER HAVE CALLED OBJ A MOTOR PARK TOUT, THAT HAS GEJ EVER HEARD HIM,OBJ AND OTHER EX RULERS OF NIGERIA INSULTE YAKUBU GOWON. IN THAT INTERVIEW, HE CLAIMED HE SPOKE AND CONDEMN GEJ FOR NOT ADDRESSING THE FEUD BETWEEN HIM AND GOV AMAECHI ON TIME , THAT IT WAS TOO LATE TO TURN BACK. IN THAT SAME INTERVIEW GEN IBB BOASTED THAT GEJ CANNOT USE MILITARY TO RIG THE ELECTION BECAUSE SOME OF THE MILITARY OFFICERS WERE BOYS TO HIS BOYS.

ANOTHER NEGATIVE BOY LANGUAGE FROM IBB WAS THE STATE COUNCIL MEETING THAT WAS HELD CONCERNING THE RESCHEDULING OF THE ELECTIONS. WHEN IBB SPOKE , HE SUGGESTED THE ELECTIONS SHOULD GO AHEAD DESPITE THE SECURITY CHALLENGES BUT BEFORE IBB COULD FINISH HIS SPEECH ,GEJ INTERUPTED AND SAID IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR THE ELECTIONS TO HOLD BECAUSE OF THE SECURITY SITUATION IN 3 STATES IN THE NORTH .

NOW TO A FACT THAT SHOWS ALL ALONG IBB WAS ON BUHARI AND APC SIDE WAS THE CONGRATULATION MESSAGE TO BUHARI WHEN BUHARI WON THE ELECTION. IN THAT MESSAGE , GEN IBB BLAMED GEJ OF BEEN TO STUBBORN, NOT LISTENING TO THE YEARNS OF THE PEOPLE. IBB BOASTING THAT THE VICTORY WAS A CLEAR MESSAGE AND WARNING THAT ANY GOVERNMENT WILL BE VOTED OUT IF THE REFUSED TO LISTEN TO THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE.
SO FELLOW NIGERIANS OBJ NEVER DESTROYED THE PDP , HE WAS JUST A PAWN IN THE CHESS GAME.

IBB FORMED THE PDP AND DESTROYED IT HIMSELF.

ONE MORE THING, I WANT NIGERIANS TO KNOW THIS GEN ABUBAKAR IS AN ERRAND BOY TO IBB, HE'S BEEN TUTORED AND GROOMED BY IBB TO TAKE OVER WHEN IBB LEAVES THIS WORLD

by the grace of ALMIGHTY GOD. i will post links to back up my stories. NIGERIANS WAKE UP, STOP BEING A MUMU.[/b]

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/support-jonathan-believes-nigerias-unity-ibb-2/

www.punchng.com/news/fg-uncovers-62892-ghost-workers-saves-n208-7bn/

chuna1985:


nothing unusual happened at the polls, Christians vote Christians n Muslims voted Muslims. simple ... Even if gej gave us 1 million megawatt n provided employment for all Nigerians, he will still lose

That's a bleeping lie from the pit of hell! People voted character and voted out non-performance. If u can't see that, you are either a kid or a kid.

ocelot2006:


You do know that the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge is already ongoing, right?

For your mind abi?

jayfolarin:


That's a bleeping lie from the pit of hell! People voted character and voted out non-performance. If u can't see that, you are either a kid or a kid.

No matter how long u smear lies on top of the truth, it can never change it.

Christian presidents n presidential aspirants always lose NE n NW, their Muslim counterparts lose SE n SS .... We simply run a democracy of tribe n religion ... Until buhari starts winning Igbo/Christian states n Southern Christians start winning in fulani/hausa/Muslim states, we are still learning ...

people also vote for personal interests, but its on the low side ...

Another town cryer about GEJ lost being blamed on OBASANJO.

Forget all those crap

The reason PDP and GEJ were destroyed, is because of the last two paragraph of this essay.

Nothing more

He who laugh last laugh best

mightycrown1:
How Obasanjo destroyed PDP (2) on April 16, 2015
By Ochereome Nnanna

FORMER President Obasanjo, as we can see, used the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to rule Nigeria for eight years. As soon as he assumed office in 1999, he made up his mind to reduce Nigeria to a one-party state, his pet party system which he canvassed vigorously while Nigeria conducted its transition to civil rule programmes. The first part of this serial chronicled how he shrivelled the opposition parties and made the PDP into a colossus that dominated the political landscape. Eventually, most leading lights in the opposition parties decamped to the PDP.

By 2007 when Obasanjo was constitutionally forced out of power, PDP was at the zenith of its power and glory. It had 26 out of the 36 governors, 260 out of the 369 members of the House of Representatives, 85 out of the 109 senators and an emphatic command of the majority in the state legislatures and the 774 local councils. It was at this point that the party started priding itself as “the largest party in in Africa”, and some of its chieftains boasted that the PDP would rule Nigeria for “sixty years”.

The size of the Party was largely as a result of Obasanjo’s repression of the opposition parties, which became unattractive for politicians tocontest for power. The party was so powerful that Obasanjo suddenly developed an ambition to grab extra terms of office for himself when he was nearing the end of his constitutional two terms. To succeed, he nullified the membership of the party and ensured that all party members were re-registered. This, of course, ensured that those Obasanjo did not want in the party were weeded. These included former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Kalu.

When his tenure elongation plans failed, Obasanjo put his Plan “B” into effect. He opted to unilaterally install his successor in office. He chose a terminally ailing Governor Umaru Yar’ Adua of Katsina state for president and paired him with a quiet, self-effacing Governor of Bayelsa State, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Vice President. He also planted his cronies as governors of the various states. He even planted them in opposition parties.

A case in point was in Imo, where the Obasanjo ordered the PDP to withdraw from the governorship race and support Chief Ikedi Ohakim, who had decamped from PDP when he failed to get the ticket at the primaries and ran on the ticket of the Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA).

Obasanjo’s ambition, at this juncture, was to become the Life Leader of the PDP, such that he could wield great political influence and lord it over the occupants of Aso Villa from Ota or Abeokuta.

The plan ran into storms, however. When Yar’ Adua assumed power, he refused to dance to Obasanjo’s tunes. He was determined to leave a legacy of his own. Obasanjo was not given any space to maneouvre. But unfortunately, Yar’ Adua became seriously sick and died in 2010. Obasanjo jumped out of his political doghouse and started prompting Jonathan to run on his own terms in 2011, even though many northern leaders preferred that he allowed one of theirs to replace him.

Soon, Obasanjo found out he had lost his place in the PDP even under Jonathan. It was so bad he was almost ignominiously booted out of his Board of Trustees Chairman post. In the middle of 2013, he resigned from the post. President Jonathan was later on to describe Obasanjo as “a goat seller who, after selling his goat, refuses to release the rope”. The Ota-born chicken farmer went home and started the war that led, ultimately, to the end of PDP’s reign.

In January 2014, he published one of his series of scandalous open letters to President Jonathan, accusing him of every abominable sin under the sun, including training snipers to kill his political opponents. A man under whose watch many prominent people were murdered was accusing a president who never recorded a single such incident in his five and half years as President!

Between April and May 2014, Obasanjo went round many states of the North and persuaded some of the governors he planted in power to run for president to replace Jonathan. Some of these were: Governors Sule Lamido of Jigawa, Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano, Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto and Babangida Aliyu of Niger. Some of these OBJ-made governors were at the forefront of the rebellion against Jonathan.

The tipping point came when five of the rebel governors decamped from PDP and joined the newly amalgamated All Progressives Congress (APC) which was put together by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and General Muhammadu Buhari.

From that point on, the rapid emaciation of the PDP could no longer be stopped. Obasanjo was relentless in his attacks on Jonathan. Apart from writing public letters, he also nudged some of his out-of-work former ministers, such as Oby Ezekwesili, Nasir el Rufai and lately, Charles Soludo, to slam the Jonathan administration each time they got the chance to go public. Obasanjo climaxed his choreography with the public tearing of his PDP membership card a couple of months to the presidential election.

Of course, PDP’s fall from power under the watch of President Jonathan was further helped by the President’s failure to take decisive steps when and where he needed to. This made him subject to blackmail. Jonathan surrounded himself with people who posed as his lovers but were actually deceivers. They took whatever they could from him and abandoned him when he needed them most. Matters were not helped by his sloppy handling of the Boko Haram insurgency, which grew from a small pox on the nose to a plague that wracked the whole nation.

Perhaps, if Jonathan had been a little more in charge and decisive, he would have prevented some of the little problems that ballooned to decide for him only one term in office. But Obasanjo was the headwind that chipped away, unchallenged, at the pedestal of his presidential power.


SOURCE - http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/how-obasanjo-destroyed-pdp-2/#sthash.c2UvA7FM.dpuf

Journalism has become a joke in Nigeria.

This is pure rubbish.

The same Obasanjo fought Fayose like mad but Fayose's people love him and voted for him again as a governor. If Jonathan's performance was outstanding, 1million of Obasanjo can't stand against the choice of Nigerians.


These are the reasons why Jonathan failed:

1).Jonathan attitude towards national emergency(Boko haram) is completely alarming and embarrassing.

2).Poor inter - personal relationship/communication with PDP founders. He brought all the failed PDP thieves from different regions on board in place of the founding and well grounded PDP bigwits.

3).Corruption became an household thing.

4).Igbos and the likes of Asari turned the Northerners and Westerners against him due to their unguarded utterances.

5).Nepotism and tribalism that have never been witnessed under any government since Independence except Aguiyi Ironsi regime was disgracefully and arrogantly displayed. Please take a look at the list below and tell me any Nigeria president apart from Aguiyi Ironsi that has ever ever been this tribalistic.

President-Ijaw/Igbo (Nnamdi Azikiwe)
SGF-IGBO
CBN - IGBO
Finance minister-Igbo
Deputy Senate-Igbo
Deputy Speaker-Igbo
Printing and Minting - Igbo
Nafdac - Igbo
Petroleum minister-Bayelsa

6).Governors Forum election of which 19 votes was less than 16 votes.

7).His wife killed Jonathan chances with her unguarded utterances and of course Jonathan's inability to control his wife.

HungerBAD:
I personally voted against Jonathan because of his wife.

That woman is OUT OF CONTROL and another 4 Years of Power would have seen her slapping Governors.

Jonathan is a weakling of a man, and Nigeria do not need weaklings.

He should as a matter of priority first work on his home front, and then we can take him serious. A man that can not tell his wife to dial down the tone with her Bus/Garage Rhetoric's and antics is not a man.

Its not as if I have something personal against her but the truth is that the woman is a bleeped up,disrespectful woman to say the least,heard how she recently embarassed Amaechi in his own STATE!!

it was corrupt jonathan that killed the PDP and not Obasanjo

I won't say that Obj was the only factor that brought PDP down, I also blame GEJ for the way he handled things. Things were getting out of control, one scandal and the other, pride and arrogance. I believe his wife was too overbearing.
With all these happening, people perceived Gej as weak. I guessed he should not have allowed Apc to have an easy ride. Obj looked at this loophole and used it against him.

Jonathan failed because he destroyed the Oil and Gas industry. He made the business very unbearable to the IOCs and thus they began to sell off their assets and Jonathan and His wife and cronies bought them with Federal Government's money.

The IOCs began to let go their staff by sacking them enmass. An Oil and Gas staff is a pillar to more than 10 family members. So the effect of Jonathans greed has tremendous effect trickled down to the grass root and affected many so badly. He planned for his self demise. I don't pity him.

I pray that Baba Buhari will probe all the Oil and Gas mismanagement and take back all they have stolen.

proudlyhandsome:


Journalism has become a joke in Nigeria.

This is pure rubbish.

The same Obasanjo fought Fayose like mad but Fayose's people love him and voted for him again as a governor. If Jonathan's performance was outstanding, 1million of Obasanjo can't stand against the choice of Nigerians.


These are the reasons why Jonathan failed:

1).Jonathan attitude towards national emergency(Boko haram) is completely alarming and embarrassing.

2).Poor inter - personal relationship/communication with PDP founders. He brought all the failed PDP thieves from different regions on board in place of the founding and well grounded PDP bigwits.

3).Corruption became an household thing.

4).Igbo and the likes of Asari turned the Northerners and Westerners against him due to their unguarded utterances.

5).Nepotism and tribalism that have never been witnessed under any government since Independence except Aguiyi Ironsi regime. Please take a look at the list below and tell me any Nigeria president apart from Aguiyi Ironsi that has ever ever been this tribalistic.

President-Ijaw/Igbo (Nnamdi Azikiwe)
SGF-ISGF-IGBO
CBN - IGBO
Finance minister-Bayelsa
Deputy Senate-Igbo
Deputy Speaker-Igbo
Printing and Minting - Igbo
Nafdac - Igbo
Petroleum minister-Bayelsa

6).Governors Forum election of which 19 votes was less than 16 votes.

7).His wife killed Jonathan chances with her unguarded utterances and of course Jonathan's inability to control his wife.

Haba !!! . Tell me the name of the finance minister. How can she be from Bayelsa ?

vislabraye:


Haba !!! . Tell me the name of the finance minister. How can she be from Bayelsa ?

Typo Error. It was meant to be Igbo