Mekusnwa: Where did they go to pick this character from? There's no end to what theses Gej haters will not do to get at him. Suddenly, they hve gone to generate a Ghanian professor to come and give a disjointed analyses of that interesting Media chat. Who interviewed this professor? Who made him world's foremost economist? I will not be surprised if this man was cloned by SAHARAREPORTERS or Kobojunkie to lend credibility to their falsehood. Let me assume that the man exist and face the issues raised.
1. He acted in ignorance when he said the president didn't declare his assets. The president indeed declared his assets but it was not made public. Even if you doubt it, the assets declaration that he did as Vp under Yaradua still subsists as he has not left office since then. So why the noise over assets declaration?
2. It is an insult on the sensibilities of Nigerians for the so called Ayitteh to label our President as insane and with unsound mind. Who adjudged Jonathan as having unsound mind? Did Ayitteh evaluate a medical report to that effect? How did he arrive at this weighty derogatory statement against a PHD holder? Who is Ayitteh to tell us we voted an insane President? please there must be an end to useless propaganda.
3. The so called Ayitteh questioned why GEJ has not fixed Maidugri airport for his usage. I want to ask, has Ghana even fixed the airport at Accra talkless of the one in hinterland? Is it Not the airport where a cargo aircraft crashed due to water logged runway. Meanwhile, Gej is carrying out massive reconstruction of airports across the country. He is doing in less than one year what many of his predecessors could not do all thru their tenure. Go to Abuja airport, the domestic wing has been closed down for intensive renovation. New car parks are being built. At the international wing, the runways are being built and the entire airport infrastructure is being rebuilt. Similar projects are going on simultaneously in Enugu, Lagos, etc
4. He said GEJ's Agric revolution is only restricted to distribution of palm seedlings. What an affront on truth. Even a toddler in Nigeria has come to know about the cassava revolution and fertilizer distribution reforms scheme.
5. Thankfully, the fake prof accepted the massive construction of rail lines across the country but only faulted the projects on account of what he described as non inclusion of Nigerians in the contract. Who told him? And since when has a Ghanian assumed the role of our local content enforcement officer?
6. He ended up betraying his true identity as an interested party when he said the president needed to consult the university authority and students body before renaming Unilag. What a joke!

Spirit of Okija:

Maybe Lagos State needs to do what other States are doing which is fix the Federal roads and charge the Federal government for work done. Rivers is doing it and so are many other States

dont8:
He was my lecturer in Fishery! He taught me reckless talk and cluelessness!

mbhs139:



How wrong you are there! Clearly shows you don't know Lagos. But you should have sought knowledge before commenting on what you don't know? Lagos started fixing federal roads before other states, that was part of the problem between Tinubu and OBJ. For your information, the ongoing badagry road expansion by the lagos state government is owned by the federal government.

ballabriggs:

It is false to say no real data collection was carried out. Some of the components of the index were sourced from national and international statistical bodies including the World Health Organisation which has a country office in Nigeria.

Naijagunner83: Not dying in silence is not the same as flaunting your ignorance and lack of knowledge of your Country's policies, prospects, achievements and challenges. And rather tow the folly of a mad Ghanaian proffersor who does not know us. Ghana is a fellow West African (rival) neighbour and this is an attempt to rubbish the image, pride and integrity of our fatherland

Mekusnwa: The way you guys talk as if Gej's govt has not done anything on roads baffles me. Systematically, some people in Nairaland keep hiding the truth from the public. But I will make bold to list GEJ's achievement on roads so that genuine minded people will know and take steps to verify while the haters and BH Nairalanders,will find another opportunity to reign in their insults and abuses. In just one year, precisely 2011 budget, Gej was able to award and also complete some of the road projects across the country viz; Owerri-Onitsha, Afikpo-Okigwe, 9th mile, Auchi-Okene, Benin-Ore-Lagos(80%), Apapa-Oshodi expressway awarded to Julius Berger, Kaduna eastern Byepass, Kano Byepass, Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia, Obi-Awe-Lafia, Kano - Maidugri, Kolo- Nembe-brass, Zaria-Funtua-Gusau which is above 101 km. let's be factual please

Mekusnwa: The way you guys talk as if Gej's govt has not done anything on roads baffles me. Systematically, some people in Nairaland keep hiding the truth from the public. But I will make bold to list GEJ's achievement on roads so that genuine minded people will know and take steps to verify while the haters and BH Nairalanders,will find another opportunity to reign in their insults and abuses. In just one year, precisely 2011 budget, Gej was able to award and also complete some of the road projects across the country viz; Owerri-Onitsha, Afikpo-Okigwe, 9th mile, Auchi-Okene, Benin-Ore-Lagos(80%), Apapa-Oshodi expressway awarded to Julius Berger, Kaduna eastern Byepass, Kano Byepass, Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia, Obi-Awe-Lafia, Kano - Maidugri, Kolo- Nembe-brass, Zaria-Funtua-Gusau which is above 101 km. let's be factual please

Spirit of Okija:

Its just like the say 75% of Nigerians are living below the poverty line of $1.25 (220 Naira) per day...

No real records

PetroDolla: so tell me, what are some of the 'major major' challenges facing Ghana you alluded to? Ghana being a vibrant democracy and this being an election yr,u expect to have a charged political atmosphere and people say all sorts on the net,radio,tv,newspapers etc.but let me assure you that the issue of President Mills will be resolved by the good people of Ghana at the polls in Dec.that's the beauty o f the Ghanaian system. can you say the same for nigeria,where the pdp has vowed to stay in power for the next 150 years.Ghanaian leaders know they have to perform or they'll be voted out n that's why is Ghana is making progress. We're not there yet,but give us 5 yrs and you're going to see a totally new,very prosperous Ghana.

sleek29: The maiduguri 'excuse' was really not smart by the president, OBJ visited the same maiduguri, how did he get there?, he clearly showed his 'unpresidentialness' with that statement, @ the peak of the war in iraq george bush visited iraq, a C-in-C talking like that only shows weakness and is capable of empowering enemies of the state, let's drop the sentiments, whether Ghanian prof or not, GEJ messed up again!

Mekusnwa: The way you guys talk as if Gej's govt has not done anything on roads baffles me. Systematically, some people in Nairaland keep hiding the truth from the public. But I will make bold to list GEJ's achievement on roads so that genuine minded people will know and take steps to verify while the haters and BH Nairalanders,will find another opportunity to reign in their insults and abuses. In just one year, precisely 2011 budget, Gej was able to award and also complete some of the road projects across the country viz; Owerri-Onitsha, Afikpo-Okigwe, 9th mile, Auchi-Okene, Benin-Ore-Lagos(80%), Apapa-Oshodi expressway awarded to Julius Berger, Kaduna eastern Byepass, Kano Byepass, Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia, Obi-Awe-Lafia, Kano - Maidugri, Kolo- Nembe-brass, Zaria-Funtua-Gusau which is above 101 km. let's be factual please

brabus:

Excuse my ignorance and lack of knowledge! Educate us further on what the President is doing (in the area of corruption) that you know that he's not willing to share with us.

If you ask me, I'll say GEJ is too ideologically
motivated to be an effective president. At these present times, Nigerians need the smart and rational people to come back.
You don't need a binoculars to understand what the policies this administration has conjured up will do to our country.

Of course, people can be smart and rational but not have the best interests of the country at the top of their priorities list.

The Ghanaian Professor is only showing concern because they can see clearly from the outside.

pssword: GEJ has his faults, no president in the world, indeed Africa, is perfect. As many responders here have rightly said, the Prof should face his country and his president. Throwing cheap insults at GEJ is uncouth and will not help African social economic development in any fashion. There was nothing concrete from his vociferous outburst but rather it just another round of Nigeria bashing from Ghanaians, something we are getting used to these days..

Mekusnwa: if you listened very carefully to the presidents chat without watching Euro 2012, you would hve heard when he asked Maokpe Ogun to take steps to verify from the ICPC boss about the level of autonomy they enjoy. The president categorically said he gives both EFCC and ICPC the latitude to perform their task. And if ure truthful to ur self on your perception of Gej, you know it's not a lie. Gej is not intimidating or a bully like Obj. First, It was under Gej's first week in office that the EFCC arrested and charged Bankole. Next, Gej signed into law the FOI Act which other presidents hve been dodging to sign since the Obj days. Next, Gej rescucitated the Ibori case and the subsequent trial in Uk. I know many will want to discredit this as political witchunt, but what can they also say about the trial and prosecution of Gbenga Daniel, Alao Akala, Abdullahi adamu of Nassarawa, Danjuma Goje and most recently Timi sylva. When the EFCC boss appeared incompetent, he sacked her and replaced him with Lamorde who under Ribadu carried out investigations against Gej. That move was welcomed by all and sundry. Gej's govt has been initiating series of probes into several Government Ministries and Agencies. It was Gej that directed the freezing if accounts and the subsequent evaluation of the pensions scheme which led to the senate probe on pensions that has revealed over 125 billion fraud. The Fg has also directed the EFCC to charge them and they hve been charged and presently facing trial. Presently, the minister of finance is doing bio metric capturing of federal workers and blocking all areas of leakages thru the integrated online payment system . To curb the menace of abandoned contracts, the Fg has directed that there will no longer be mobilization payments to contractors. Under, Gej all types of probes are flourishing. Anybody is at liberty to start investigation on any sector, there's no interference nor the bulliying that we used to see during the Obj days. The Fg started also by cutting allowances of public servants. He slashed the allowances of lawmakers from 42 m quareterly to 15 m quarterly. Wetin again una wan make this man do? Farouk lawan case has been taken up by the police,

homerac7: ^

Met someone who knew him as a lecturer and he was described as boring to death.

Also someone who knew him in UNIPORT during his Ph.d days and was told he failed his thesis defence thrice and Alams had to call d VC to save his deputy from d embarrassment before he was finally passed. Although I haven't been able to check his ph.d award date against d year of his service as deputy governor.

onatisi:

you are the beeeeessssstt fooooooool in the world!

nagoma:
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You cannot incite Nigerians against Ghanians for that. The distinguished professor is right and as an academic he can talk about , Egyptian , Bolivian, Siberian or Nigeria politics.
Those arm chair Professors of nose picking need to wake up and speak for the people.

Spirit of Okija:

And the vultures have arrived..

Me sleep with my two eyes closed ke?! In Ghana?! A country that hates Nigerians as if we are the ones responsible for your horrible skin colour?! Ghana!! That I had to hide the fact that I am Nigerian for fear of a xenophobic attack.. Its still amazing how a Nigerian in Ghana is such a big deal yet Ghanaians in Nigeria are all persona non grata and nobody even bothers to identify with them specially.

And no sir!! I didnt put up the pictures to say that they were bad, but to point out that if those were the Yardstick for measuring airports, then Nigeria has over 36 airports Nationwide.. Every two Story building close to the airport is a tower, every stretch of highway longer and straighter than 3 kilometers is a runway..

ballabriggs:

If this is what agricultural revolution means to you, then you need to have your head examined.

Secondly, a Professor who appears on TED Q&A is a fake Professor? You are sick but you don't know. Your lengthy post would not deceive us. The day Jona appears on such a platform, he would collapse before the end of the event.

Finally, the President expects his citizens to live at the level of universal ethical principles by "working even when NEPA takes light"- which is almost impossible- but won't live at that level by declaring his assets. Is he not a hypocrite?

tunnytox: I fear for Nigeria's future judging by the responses of many posters on this thread. Instead of concentrating on the message they put their attention on the messenger, some posters are even so passionate to defend their president from 'insults' than they are concerned on his suitability for the job. Only a fool will so concerned about eczema when he's been afflicted with leprosy. What has insulting Jona got to do with the fact that people are hungry, insecure and dying everyday while the political elite continue to feast on the nation's wealth? If you have ever been hungry before, been deprived of your right or being abused by the Nigerian govt in one way or the other you'll be more concerned about governance rather than protecting your president from insult.
No reasonable president need more than one year before people starts to feel the impact of his work, you don't need more than one year to:
- Start the restructuring Nigerian police and the overall security of Nigeria - this government does not even have a plan!
- fight corruption and jailing of offenders in high places
- develop and start to implement a plan of action to mend each sector of the Nigerian economy
But as it is now it look like its going to take Jona a decade to make up his mind on how to govern, stupid and clueless president.