Whizzkido:

How are these guys able to get sensitive information like this!did they hack it or what?

daroz:

Right from the onset, I knew GEJ had good intention for the nation.This reveletion is now a further comfirmation of the fact.
GEJ for 2011

9ijaMan:

After going through virtually every post, I came to a single conclusion: We (Nigerians) are not wholeheartedly prepared for the so called change we seem to be clamoring for. How on earth can anyone in his right thinking senses assume that such damning revelation from GEJ (accepting that he's incompetent for the position he's holding) portrays him as being sincere befuddles me. The real insult to the nation (and Nigerians as a whole) actually stems from the fact that he admitted that much to the representative of a foreign country. If he could admit this much, what further concessions could he have given in his desperate attempt to remain in power.

It is highly discombobulating for anyone (in his right senses) to attempt to equate cluelessness with humility. Some posts even went as far as claiming GEJ is not desperate: if attempting at bribing a man of God (to seek his support) is not desperation, then I really do not know how to figure out a desperate move.

As GEJ has rightly acknowledged, he (GEJ) is not the best man for the job. The same way I will not want a confused surgeon to operate on me nor a jamibite saddled with the affairs of running a multi-billion dollar organization, I sure will not want GEJ to lead 9ja. We need a seasoned leader who has good track records to back him up and not a leader who wants to learn on the job.

johnstin:

Jonathan's calm and wise conduct during the Yar'adua situation should be commended by all well meaning nigerians.
If he had taken action against those chalatanic cabals, then we won't be saying what we are saying now.
I'm not a politician; i have no ties to politicians but my meticulous analysis of the credentials of all the presidential aspirants indicates that either Jonathan, Ribadu or Buhari can take us to the promised land.
Jonathan- 65.9%
Ribadu-    54.2%
Buhari -    50%
Oh i almost forgot
Atiku-       18.1%


Shalom.

The Presidency on Thursday picked holes in accounts about an alleged confidential meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and former United States Ambassador, Ms. Robin Sanders, published by online whistleblower, WikiLeaks.

The disputed portion relates to a discussion between Jonathan, when he held office as Acting President, and Sanders over the implications of then President Umaru Yar’Adua’s health condition for Nigeria. The meeting took place on February 26, 2010 at the the vice-president’s official residence in the Presidential Villa known as Akinola Aguda House.

Jonathan resided in Akinola Aguda House until he assumed the office of president, following Yar’Adua’s death on May 6.

According to the leaked cable, Jonathan and Sanders met “to review the current political situation, following the return earlier this week of ailing President Yar’Adua.”

Excerpts from the cable suggested that Jonathan told Sanders that he (Jonathan) lacked ‘political and administrative experience.’

He was quoted as saying, “I was not chosen to be Vice-President because I had good political experience. I did not. There were a lot more qualified people around to be Vice-President, but that does not mean I am not my own man.”

“I am not a politician and had very limited experience as an administrator; I will not tolerate a brawl.”

The account also said Jonathan blamed some influential persons for the political crisis in the country at the time.

“This terrible situation in the country today has been created by four people: Turai Yar’Adua (the ailing President’s wife), his Chief Security Officer (CSO) (Yusuf Mohammed Tilde), his Aide-de-Camp (ADC)(Col. Mustapha Onoyiveta) and Professor Tanimu Yakubu (Yar’Adua’s Chief Economic Advisor).”

However, the Presidency, in response to the publication, said the website’s accounts of the discussion was ‘a souped up version,’ aimed at portraying the President in a bad light.

In a statement titled, ‘On Wikileaks and all that,’ the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Communication, Mr. Ima Niboro, said Jonathan, with all his experience in public office before becoming vice-president to the late Yar’Adua, could not have told Sanders that he lacked political and leadership experience.

The statement reads, “WikiLeaks is the new travesty that international diplomacy has to deal with. Nigeria is no exception. The point to be made is that the accounts of meetings between President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and US diplomats are essentially third party narratives, and are largely inaccurate.

“The President, in those tempestuous days during which the nation tottered on the brink, held meetings, and then more meetings, with different groups, the diplomatic community inclusive. The President met with different diplomats and special envoys, who offered different suggestions on a way out of the impasse that our late leader’s health had imposed on the nation.

“We note that this account is largely silent on these suggestions. Instead, what is served up is an unfair account severely impacted by selective perception and individual expectations. For instance, how can it be said that a man who had been a Deputy Governor, an Acting Governor, a Governor, a Vice-President, and then Acting President could have described himself as lacking in administrative experience?”

“That the President holds a Ph.D, was a lecturer for 10 years and was an Assistant Director in the defunct Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission do not make the statement less rankling. This only goes to show that the report itself is a souped up version of the standard conversation that takes place in such meetings.

“We find this account as wholly unfortunate and we are only employing the best of diplomatic finesse in that statement!

VALIDATOR:

That is why tyrants with no milk of human kindness running in their veins have repeatedly ruled our country. They know that must nigerians think leadership=arrogance.