frankyychiji:
This OP just opened up old wounds

deji68:
no mind am.... when he was campaigning up and down for Buhari dem use voodoo for am

doctokwus:

The background was laid by Jonathan's own incompetence.
The people crying that 2019 should come sooner to vote out Buhari are doing so not out of any personal beef or hatred but because they have witnessed first hand his misrule.

frankyychiji:
If it was not voodoo, then tell me what it is?
It's called "jazz of mass hypnotism". At the wave of the evil broom, all senses are gone

SalamRushdie:
Jonathan is guilty of many crimes against Nigerians but his greatest crime aaginst the the people of Nigeria remains making perenially unelectable Buhari become electable

frankyychiji:
Yes you are right about the kid gloves. Jonathan pandered so much to the sentiments of northerners e.g Buhari who declared that an attack on BH was anti north. Jonathan wasn't man enough to arrest the silly old enemy of state and make him explain what he actually meant by that!

He pandered so Mindlessly to there stupidity when he declared a quasi state of emergency in the affected states and still allowed the governors to remain in office while empowering them with huge allocations.

dukecharles:


Why do you guys like the name GEJ? You said he wasn't good enough, and voted for a better candidate, now you 're still blaming him for making you to vote against him. Bros baba. Allow the poor man.

Point of correction GEJ fought corrupt in a civilized and we saw result. Bank Nuban number, Ippis, BVN, TSA , biometric registration of fed civil servants etc are all his brain child. But PMB has just be making noise, fighting political enemies in a crude manner with EFCC without any meaningful outcome.

frankyychiji:
This OP just opened up old wounds

jamesibor:


Now that the scales have fallen off doctokwus eyes, he's looking for a scape goat.

Boss13:


I like the adjectives you used in qualifying Jonathan. To summarize your comment above, he was a weakling and a weakling doesn’t deserve to be a leader or president. Leaders make tough decisions, decisions considered to be in the best interest of the country. Jonathan was no presidential material. OBJ described him to be the 5th in command in Aso rock after 4 women.

At this moment, we can wail about the hardship in the country and the indecisiveness and deceit of the Buhari administration, but if a goat ran against Jonathan in 2015, the goat would have won. The defeat of Jonathan in 2015 was the best thing that happened in Nigerian politics and come 2019, Nigerians should vote strongly against Buhari for his incompetence and economic hardship he exposed Nigerians to.

deji68:
stlll never return i mean ther senses

londoner:
Op are you going to take any responsibility at all for the way you/ others voted?

frankyychiji:
But where is the OP for crissakes? Did he abandon his own thread? He should come back here to carry his cross alone

Lalasticlala can also place this on FP to help locate the OP.

jollymizzle:
I saw the ops sincere post and even if you are pro Gej you should be able to sympathize with his position, many have and I'm happy about their sense of fairness. however, I decided to weigh in because I saw many comments from people who believed Gej could do no wrong. I wish such people would open their eyes and even for just a moment get serious. Gej I will say during his first coming was a widely popular figure. supposedly he was a man of destiny, he was Goodluck, a man who never thought he would become a governor, the whole nation fought so he could be president. they saw in him a messiah, he wasn't like the rest of those desperate power mongers.... so we all thought. Gej was a colossal disappointment. he was the only ruler in recent history that came close to MKO's popularity, in my hometown i know two young boys who were named after him 'Goodluck' just like the time of abiola.he was that popular and had the support of majority of Nigerians. buhari may have a cult following in the north but he wasn't as widely accepted as Jonathan. so for him to be thrown out of Aso rock was no mistake. his time saw the oil boom and at a point we were still borrowing to pay salaries. corruption during his time was epidemic. every Tom, dick and ebele had access to the treasury. he almost ran us aground when we should have made our biggest strides as a nation. I'm happy he's gone and despite what people who continue to think he was worth something belive, he is never coming back as a leader. Good riddance.

osinbanjoisaliar:
Rubbish post. Jonathan was the best president Nigeria, and indeed Africa has ever seen. A president who understood and believed in the power of the people and institutions, instead of the popular belief in party Neo-colonial Godfatherism and self politics practiced and worshipped by the selfish, phoolish and demonic african political elite.
Jonathan failed because Nigeria is an impossible futile, built-to-fail project. Nobody except Jehovah can turn nigeria into a success. If you like bring Roosevelt, chiang kai sheikh, Chairman Mao and Eisenhower to reform nigeria. They will all fail with flying colors. Nigeria is ungovernable; and that's a fact. Try chopping down a tree with a blunt axe, and you will understand what Jonathan went through. The only mistake Jonathan made was that he believed in this ridiculous, hopeless, sinful nation. Worse was that he believed in you and me.

lastempero:


Brother what made him the best president? For fostering buhari on us unknowingly, he is the worst president.

doctokwus:

Have I ever denied I overwhelming supported,campaigned(in my own little way) for Buhari?No!
But I insist its because Jonathan's performance was looking so abysmal and underwhelming that I felt, like many others,that anyone else could do better,talkless of one,that even the international community was deceived into believing had integrity and wasn't corrupt.
The things we know now if had been known prior to 2015,based on first hand experience,would have resorted in a different outcome.However,maybe not still a Jonathan for me,but definitely not a Buhari and I would have mobilized any little way I could to ensure that those I cud could vote any way they choose,so long as I practically ensured its not Muhammadu Buhari.

doctokwus:

Have I ever denied I overwhelming supported,campaigned(in my own little way) for Buhari?No!
But I insist its because Jonathan's performance was looking so abysmal and underwhelming that I felt,

doctokwus:
The heading is no sarcasm,joke or trying to pull anybody's leg.
I truly blame Jonathan for the monumental error,suffering,disaster and crass incompetence that has characterized Buhari's rule since 2015.
My reason is quite simple:
Goodluck Jonathan was voted in in a historical election.He was the first head of government of any make in Nigeria to come from a minority tribe.
He was overwhelmingly supported by those who saw his coming to power as the chain breaker that would liberate every ethnic group in Nigeria to believe it had a stake in corporate Nigeria.
However,for 5yrs,Jonathan failed to deliver on good governance.
He allowed corruption to become an acceptable form of governance.
He dilly dallied on Boko Haram till they threatened the 2015 elections.
He failed majorly on the economy as signs of Nigeria sliding into debts,unpaid salaries,unemployment and various crimes began to manifest.
He was clearly inclined to favouring his Ijaw stock,to the detriment of even other Southern ethnic groups.
The choice was stark:reelect Jonathan and face the fear of Nigeria sliding further down or elect a man championed and dressed in robes to be non corrupt,with impeccable integrity and backed by big financiers,who could match PDP's vote for money strategy.
In otherwords,if Jonathan had shown just the slightest desire to fight corruption,had battled BH early on,instead of allowing those around him to mess him up,and those in the North to add further insult by sabotaging efforts towards that end,and had by fighting corruption,got sufficient funds to tackle the bankruptcy Nigeria was heading to and a consequent traumatised economy with it,many that voted Buhari won't have dare look at an old man,that was scared of debate,and whose whole image was craftly forged for the voting public.
So yes,Buhari has turned out to be a great disaster,a very divisive,grossly incompetent,parochial president and one no country should ever pray to have,but if Jonathan had put in just one more bit of honest effort,we would all have been saved the Buhari nightmare we are all living witnesses to.

tsdarkside:


protest vote against Jonathan my foot...its not about that...if jonathan was serious enough,we wouldnt have voted buhari....

and buhari is still doing well so far am concerned.....if any nigerian understand how complicated nigeria is they will agree with me too....

nigerian democracy is not that old...una fvck this opportunity up again like 1960,then military rule will return again....

dont mess with the nigerian military....

amarilo:
[b]Now you seen and known what ABYSMAL is. Which of the petrol [/b]station are you? Can we have pictures?

doctokwus:

If GEJ had done well,would I have thought of Buhari?
Even if GEJ had done averagely well,by arithmetic he won't have lost.
Let me tell you why:GEJ's performance was so abysmal that the electorate in a core support base of his,the SouthEasterners,in the SouthEast,became indifferent at best to his re-election.In 2011,Jonathan was scoring averagely 700,000 -1million votes,per each SE state,with some rigging admittedly.That gave him about 3.5-4million vote margin from the 5 SE states.
Fast forward 2015,average vote for same man was 300,000/state,giving him margin of 1.5million.
GEJ lost the 2015 elections,despite the tsunamis in Kano,Kaduna,Katsina,Bauchi etc,by a mere 3million votes.
That 3million would have been wiped out if the SouthEasterners that also felt disenchanted with his rule,but could not imagine themselves supporting the disaster now ruling us,had come out to vote(4million 2011-1.5million 2015=almost 3million)for him as they did in 2011.

brown3:
mr. Man get it clear, Gej lost because obama want him out power. Nigeria never vote him out.

londoner:


You chose hot pepper soup from the menu in protest against rice and stew but you are complaining about the spiciness and blaming the rice. Lool