Okay na....NEXT!!

Good news

One woman won for touring with with her husband and his 161 delegates, one won for fighting for women's right.

No be so?

FaCrook and OteDollar have been nominated for the "Oscar Academy Awards"....

Ambasdor ko minista ni,one day D UN will still give a pure slowpoke ambsador 4 grammar in Africa.Aftall wht's d difference btw Patience and a slowpoke?

wow! you mean those who speak bad English can still win awards in Tourism?
I no fit laugh!!!

Come to think of it,the devil has taken over Nigeria and it is time to fight him.These Nigerdelter slowporks want to steal and waste everything in nigeria.Please what does Mrs jonathan know about tourism?

Proof that a person created by God cannot be completely useless. No matter how bad your case is, there is an award waiting for you.

julioralph: wow! you mean those who speak bad English can still win awards in Tourism?
I no fit laugh!!!

Of course,i thnk dat's the way d UN Views it.Bad grammar Bigger award.

julioralph: wow! you mean those who speak bad English can still win awards in Tourism?
I no fit laugh!!!

Absolute rubbish. Na wetin we want b dat?

floriana: Proof that a person created by God cannot be completely useless. No matter how bad your case is, there is an award waiting for you.

OMG!

I have been trying to remember significant impact Dame Patience GEJ has made in Nigeria Tourism industry but none come to mind,so what's her contribution for winning this award?

is this April fool.

PDP power.

You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

You can lie to a blind person that there is no oil in the food but you cannot lie that there is no salt.

EFCC V. PATIENCE JONATHAN

In August 2006, the EFCC seized the sum of N104 million from one Mrs. Nancy Ebere Nwosu, an associate of Patience Jonathan. On August 22, 2006, Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, gave EFCC the legal backing to retain the N104 million seized from an associate of Patience Goodluck, the wife of then governor of Bayelsa state, Goodluck Jonathan, who is now the vice president of Nigeria.

The order was to stay in place “pending the conclusion of the investigation of the activities of the said persons in connection with their involvement in the acts of money laundering and other economic and financial crimes related offences.” The EFCC’s position was that Patience Jonathan stole the money from the public coffers of Bayelsa and was trying to launder it through her friend, Mrs. Nancy Ebere Nwosu.

Like a crack addict willing to do anything for a high, Patience Jonathan was not going to give up her addiction to treasury looting simply because Nuhu Ribadu’s EFCC was on her trail. Determined to prove that only mere mortals shivered at the sight of EFCC, she continued with her looting of Bayelsa’s treasury with the full cooperation and assistance of her husband, Goodluck Jonathan, who was the then governor of Bayelsa state. The duo was so successful that on September 11, 2006, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) again seized another $13.5 million dollars (US) from Mrs. Patience Jonathan. Criminal charges were brought against her and Nigerians were awaiting her prosecutionto the full extent of the law. Shortly thereafter and in the face of these serious allegations, the insensitive Olusegun Obasanjo and his PDP that had become a den of thieves, nominated Goodluck Jonathan to be the running mate of Yar'Adua.


The case against patience Jonathan has gone cold since Jonathan Goodluck became the vice president of Nigeria. The case has gone cold despite relentless denials of political interference by the EFCC and the presidency, although the president has publicly acknowledged directing investigations into certain allegations when such suits his political purpose.

It has gone cold despite Yar Adua’s broken-record equivalent repetitiveness of zero tolerance for corruption, a repetitiveness that leaves Nigerians with two options: the president is either “419”ing Nigerians with his proclamations or lacking the intellectual capacity to comprehend what constitutes corruption.

In the past, Farida Waziri has been quick to blame Sahara Reporters and its ardent followers for drowning out her so called anti-corruption message, despite her trepidations and failure to grant a single no holds barred interview to members of the “non-friendly” press since assuming office. This is her chance. Nigerians want to know what happened to the case of EFCC vs. Patience Jonathan. You can lie to a blind person that there is no oil in the food but you cannot lie that there is no salt.

Nigerians want to know what happened to the case of EFCC vs. Patience Jonathan

http://saharareporters.com/article/efcc-v-patience-jonathan-vice-president%E2%80%99s-wife-farida-waziri-efcc-please-provide-update

This is no news ap all...

I always knew that these mischief makers would want to smuggle in another lie while the rest of Nairalanders are fast asleep.This time they pretended as if they wanted to seek opinions on the award bestowed on the most courageous and bold first lady in Nigeria's history. But hardly could they allow discussions on the award survive 10 posts before they launched their malicious story thus betraying their real motives. The only condition necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to keep silent. I do not knw patience Jonathan nor hve I met her before but what I know is that there's no iota of truth in this story. First, there has been no time in the history of Nigeria where Patience Jonathan was charged for corruption in any court. Secondly, There has never been any such case title as EFCC V Patience Jonathan in our law reports. Thirdly, when Ribadu held sway as EFCC boss he openly talked about many Governors and public officers that he had axes to grind with over corruption. Neither GEJ nor his wife were ever mentioned by Ribadu. There was never a time when EFCC quizzed Patience in Yenagoa. I hve not also heard this story from a reliable media source apart from Sahara liars.

uzomagic: I always knew that these mischief makers would want to smuggle in another lie while the rest of Nairalanders are fast asleep.This time they pretended as if they wanted to seek opinions on the award bestowed on the most courageous and bold first lady in Nigeria's history. But hardly could they allow discussions on the award survive 10 posts before they launched their malicious story thus betraying their real motives. The only condition necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to keep silent. I do not knw patience Jonathan nor hve I met her before but what I know is that there's no iota of truth in this story. First, there has been no time in the history of Nigeria where Patience Jonathan was charged for corruption in any court. Secondly, There has never been any such case title as EFCC V Patience Jonathan in our law reports. Thirdly, when Ribadu held sway as EFCC boss he openly talked about many Governors and public officers that he had axes to grind with over corruption. Neither GEJ nor his wife were ever mentioned by Ribadu. There was never a time when EFCC quizzed Patience in Yenagoa. I hve not also heard this story from a reliable media source apart from Sahara liars.

You must be mentally sick!!! Sometimes, I feel so ashamed to be in the same country with your likes! Chai! God, you have a reason for making me a Nigerian! Your wisdom is unsearchable!

Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies. All are lies. SHOPRITE OF LIES(SAHARAREPORTERS) will never stop marketing this falsehood even when it has become glaring that Nairalanders are loosing interest in buying them. Right from the first paragraph you would notice the inconsistencies and illogic.

On one breath, they said its one Nancy Ebere Nwosu that was charged for stealling 104 m, Yet this SHOPRITE OF LIES still flaunt the case title as EFCC V Patience Jonathan. In the 3rd paragraph, this SHOPERITE OF LIES shamelessly reported that in September 2006, EFCC caught Patience Jonathan with 13.5m US dollars and charged her before Obj nominated her husband for VP. This is about the most ridiculous gist I hve heard in a long while.

I don't knw whether this SHOPRITE OF LIES think us all on nairaland to be toddlers in 2006. Which court did EFCC bring the charges against Patience Jonatnan? Was such trial initiated behind loosed doors such that there is no single picture in proof of the First lady's appearance in court? Then how did GEJ's nomination as VP which was in December 2006 used to file for a stay of the trial on the "charges brought against " patience Jonathan in September 2006. Why must people be so dumb in propagating this cheap blackmail?

GEJ had alluded to this when he said jokingly in one of his media chats that some people hve been concocting the lies that his wife was caught in Dubai in possession of millions of dollars without reasoning the impossibility of anybody to be carrying such huge amount in cash around. It's so unfortunate that SHOPRITE OF LIES is destroying whatever is left of its credibility with junk stories like this.

I don't give a damn!

For those that do not know, the first lady has been one of the few people in Nigeria along with Minister of finance Mrs Okonjo-Iweala for the support of the tourism ministry in Nigeria. Never in Nigeria's history has the culture & tourism ministry attract a lot of attention globally before the current Minister.Chief Edem Duke came in. Look at how big our tourism has transformed in less than 12 months since he took office. 'Whom God has blessed, nobody can curse.'It's obvious that the minister has told the UNWTO how much she's supported the ministry, therefore they deem her worthy of the award SHIKENA.

Abdulrabo1: For those that do not know, the first lady has been one of the few people in Nigeria along with Minister of finance Mrs Okonjo-Iweala for the support of the tourism ministry in Nigeria. Never in Nigeria's history has the culture & tourism ministry attract a lot of attention globally before the current Minister.Chief Edem Duke came in. Look at how big our tourism has transformed in less than 12 months since he took office. 'Whom God has blessed, nobody can curse.'It's obvious that the minister has told the UNWTO how much she's supported the ministry, therefore they deem her worthy of the award SHIKENA.

LOL And we should thank Dame abi? Which tourism? rotflmao!!!

You mean Nigeria that's on traveling "Caution list"?

malc619: FaCrook and OteDollar have been nominated for the "Oscar Academy Awards"....

So, to tour round nigeria in campainin fo her husband has becom an act of tourism? Thins are gettin worse in dis country. God, pls help us.

This certainly a job well done, congratulations to my first lady. More grace.

Ekans: Come to think of it,the devil has taken over Nigeria and it is time to fight him.These Nigerdelter slowporks want to steal and waste everything in nigeria.Please what does Mrs jonathan know about tourism?

ask me!

Ileke-IdI:
One woman won for touring with with her husband and his 161 delegates, one won for fighting for women's right.

No be so?

Hahahahha

BUMPS

Is any of you in office? Is it everything the media would know? And/or inform you about all that happens in Nigeria? This government has exposed and stiLl exposing the real criminals and we ignorant Nigerians utter curses at those who help to improve. E.g if Diezani Madueke, Min. Of Petroleum resources leaves her seat the cabals that have been spoiling our country would have their way easier. They are the ones sponsoring most of her aTtacks etc. GEJ and those in the know KNOW. Because our first lady does not speak the best English doesn't mean she's not working hard.

uzomagic: I always knew that these mischief makers would want to smuggle in another lie while the rest of Nairalanders are fast asleep.This time they pretended as if they wanted to seek opinions on the award bestowed on the most courageous and bold first lady in Nigeria's history. But hardly could they allow discussions on the award survive 10 posts before they launched their malicious story thus betraying their real motives. The only condition necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to keep silent. I do not knw patience Jonathan nor hve I met her before but what I know is that there's no iota of truth in this story. First, there has been no time in the history of Nigeria where Patience Jonathan was charged for corruption in any court. Secondly, There has never been any such case title as EFCC V Patience Jonathan in our law reports. Thirdly, when Ribadu held sway as EFCC boss he openly talked about many Governors and public officers that he had axes to grind with over corruption. Neither GEJ nor his wife were ever mentioned by Ribadu. There was never a time when EFCC quizzed Patience in Yenagoa. I hve not also heard this story from a reliable media source apart from Sahara liars.

just a simple google search would have saved you the embarrasment of been proven to be an ignoramus.

Burden of History
September 7, 2011 5:58 am
Dame Patience Jonathan
By Adebiyi Jelili Abudugana
With the impending elections, Nigerians would be seeking through the present, a future. This endeavour constitutes a change process that requires the use of our understanding of why our yesterday wasmiserable and obscure, as determinants in seeking the realization of a cheery tomorrow.
Given that this implies seeking history (future) through history (past and presence), our ability to achieve the desired- a better tomorrow,is incumbent upon the realization of the fact that the traumatizing moment we are agitatedly seeking its reversal, was once a future whose present bleakness owes to our collective inabilities to use thepast that gave birth to the present, in shaping its course. It is therefore on the basis of this consideration that this article uses on the one hand, the instrumentality of history, in addressing certain issues constituting moral burden on Goodluck and Dame Patience Jonathan’s leadership.
On the other, Arnold Toynbee’s concept of seeming repetitive patterns in history is used to unearth the fortress on which Jonathan’s presidential ambition is based and what this portends for the change Nigerians desire.
Although there is the hidden hand of God in man’s unfolding history,it is man’s activities in and within time that gives birth to circumstances which either favour or impede the realization of man’s goals in time. It is also these activities that culminate into events that becomes the determinant of man’s present.
Such philosophy would be evoked to revisit the alleged involvement of Goodluck and Dame Patience Jonathan – Nigeria’s president and the first lady – in a well documented case of money laundering that has recently becomes a sensation in Nigeria’s political landscape.
As rightly stated by many writers, on September 11, 2006, Mr. OsitaNwajah, former EFCC spokesman made a public declaration that a whopping sum of $13.5 million Dollars (US) was seized from Mrs. Patience Jonathan. This was during her husband’s reign as the Governor of Bayelsa State and Nuhu Ribadu’s years as the EFCC Chairman. Before this, there was also a sum of N104million that wasreportedly seized by the EFCC from one Mrs Nancy Ebere Nwosu in August 2006, which, as confessed by the latter under oath, belonged to Mrs Jonathan.These money laundering matters, which was presumed to be wrongly associated with President Jonathan and the first lady, Madam Patience, is now widely sensationalized asa ploy aimed at discrediting the persons of the president and his wife. The issue at hand has also been widely portrayed as fabrication by the ruling party’s and Jonathan’s political opponents.
To establish the innocence of Jonathan and his wife, statements credited to Ribadu were quoted. Accordingly, Ribadu was cited as saying, “I never handled a case against Patience Jonathan, never; it’s a lie. You know it is so sad because in our country this is how we go about maligning people. But today thank God I am not in his government. So, I can open up and talk. If I were to say it earlier people would have thought that I was looking for job from PresidentGoodluck Jonathan. I am not looking for anything. But the truth must be told.” (The Nation, September 16, 2010).
To convince the electorates of the veracity of Jonathan and Patience’s incorruptibility, another statement of exoneration reportedly issued as well by Ribadu was quoted as follow, “The casehad to do with a lady and a man who lodged huge sums of money in the bank. The EFCC was alerted by the bank and an investigation was carried out. It was found that they legitimately earned the money through contracts executed in the state. All the reports in themedia were lies. For instance, it was initially reported that N70 million was lodged into the bank. Later, it was reported that the money ran into millions of dollars. Such was the extent of the lies. We never handled a case against Patience Jonathan.” (Thisday of September 17, 2010).
Since the alleged crime was committed under Ribadu’s watch as EFCC boss, one may be tempted to say the case never existed at all or consider the whole issue, a mere ploy by Jonathan’s political adversaries.
But, in view of the fact that over reliance on one source is a factor that affects the reliability of historical sources and veracity of an historical claim, one is compelled to seek the use of other prominentsources for a cross validation in establishing the veracity of these claims.
During my search for other primary evidence on this matter, I stumbled on a case with a suit number FHC/ABJ/M/340/06, filed on August 21, 2007 at the Federal High Court, Abuja. As indicated in this file, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu’s -led EFCC named Mrs. Patience Jonathan, wife of Goodluck Jonathan, as an accomplice in the N104million money laundering case involving one Mrs. Nancy Ebere Nwosu. The amount in question was stated in this file to be laundered on the order of Mrs Patience Goodluck into a First Bank ofNigeria account number 3292010060711 held in the name of Nansolyvan Public Relations Limited by one Hanner Offor.
Still not satisfied with this new primary source on the issue at hand, further effort was exerted to dig into the archive. Again, we (with help from an NGO) stumbled on the EFFC’s affidavit used in supporting the above mentioned suit’s originating summons.
In this document, Ofem Uket, the then EFCC prosecuting officer declared, “Our investigations revealed that Mrs. Patience Jonathan, wife of the Governor of Bayelsa State, was the person who instructed one Hanner Offor to launder the said sum of N104, 000, 000 into the account of Nansolyvan Public Relations Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc (FBN), Niger House, Marina, Lagos”.
To further establish the veracity of this discovery, I was forced to search for a court ruling on this matter. Findings revealed that on August 22, 2006, Justice Anwuli Chikere who then was at the Federal High Court, Abuja presided over the EFCC’s application on this case and ruled that, “leave is hereby granted to the Executive Chairman of the EFCC to … freeze the bank accounts of the persons referred to as the account holders pending the conclusion of the investigation of the activities of the said persons in connection with their involvement in the acts of money laundering and other economic and financial crimes related offences.”
Given that the combined use of both primary and secondary sourcesis needed to make a reliable historical narration, effort was also directed at newspaper reports of this suit and judgement. Among many others, in its September 11, 2006 edition, a story under the caption,”EFCC seizes N104m from Bayelsa Governor’s Wife” featuredin Punch newspaper. The news item was put together by Sam Akpe and Tobi Soniyi, Abuja.
When cross-examined with our newly found primary sources, we observed consistency between contents of the newly discovered primary resources on this matter and this news reportage. It may beinteresting to produce parts of these documents which highlight how EFCC arrived at the conclusion that the laundered money in question involved Jonathan and Madam Patience.
As shown in these documents, Mallam Ribadu-led EFCC stated: Mrs. Nancy Ebere Nwosu through whom the money in question was laundered “had been evasive in her earlier statements.” But when confronted with further evidence, she said, “I voluntary elect to state as follows: My earlier statements were made while I was very disorganised by the overwhelming questions I had to deal with.” “She then admitted that Mr. Godwill Oba told her that Mrs.Jonathan wanted to give him (Oba) some work and that she (Mrs. Jonathan) would advance the mobilisation money to him (Oba) through her (Nwosu) account. She said, “When Oba came for the money to be withdrawn, I confirmed from Her Excellency, Mrs. Patience Jonathanthat she wanted the intended project money to be withdrawn.” “I know that Her Excellency is related to Oba. I confirmed from Her Excellency that the money could be made in favour of Oba.”
As further observed in one of these documents, Ribadu-led EFCC declared that, “Investigations into the laundering of the N70m into Finviclaud with Access Bank Plc cheque revealed that the money was deposited into the account with a First Bank of Nigeria Plc cheque number 3292010060711 for N70m, a personal current account drawn on Nansolyvan Public Relations Limited at the Niger House Marina branch.” “ Nwosu then transferred the N70m from theaccount into another account operated by Fivviclaud at the Access Bank Plc, Apapa branch, Lagos.” ”Our investigations at the two banks – First Bank and Access Bank – showed that Nwosu of No 2A Araromi Street, Lagos Island, is the sole signatory to the two accounts.”
Given new insights which these documents have offered us, one is bound to raise the following questions. Is it possible that Jonathan and Patience Goodluck are not aware of this court suit? If they do, why is it that they merely rely on Ribadu’s statement of exoneration to establish their innocence and not on any competent court’s judgment? Can it be said that their refusal to back up their claim of exoneration with a competent court’s judgment or make allusion to any pending court case on this matter is an attempt to burry facts ofhistory and hoodwink the masses? While readers are at liberty to find appropriate responses to these questions, one is tempted to suppose that Jonathan and Patience are playing the blame-trade andusing power to cover up a past which is inherently part of their persons and a leading reason why our today is miserable.
Another round of question that needs to be raised would be on Nuhu Ribadu’s role in the whole issue. Since we have established that a case with suit number FHC/ABJ/M/340/06, filed on August 21, 2007 at the Federal High Court, Abuja, exists on the issue at hand, can we accept Nuhu Ribadu’s conflicting statement which reads, “I never handled a case against Patience Jonathan, never; it’sa lie” (The Nation, September 16, 2010) as a statement of fact?
We may also need to ask, has Ribadu known to have exhibited double-speaking attitude in the past or in recent time? Evidence suggests that in an interview the former EFCC boss granted The NEWS magazine in February 2007, Nuhu Ribadu once stated that, “Olabode George was never an executive officer of NPA. He was a part-time Chairman. It is the Executive Managing Director who runs the place; it was the MD’s name that appeared in all the contract papers of NPA. Olabode George was a part-time Chairman whose name was never on any contract paper”.
Upon the pronouncement by Justice Olubumi Oyewole which sentenced Olabode George to a deserved two years imprisonment without an option of fine, Nuhu stated that the ruling “is a measure of the shamelessness of our elite and the institutions that fuel their values. That Chief George could be awarded a national honour in our country and that he could later sue some newspapers for libel on account of the damming indictment report I prepared against him.”
Again, the question is, are there no obvious contradictions in the above-quoted statements credited to Nuhu Ribadu on a crime whichinvolved Bode George’s abuse of public trust? It seems to me one is a statement of exoneration and the other, of indictment on Nuhu Ribadu and Bode George. Since the foregoing suggest that the former EFCC boss’s statements may be self-contradictory, then, it is only objective that his statement which exonerated Jonathan and Dame Patience of any involvement in the money laundering case under consideration be discarded.
Probably it was this reality that made president Jonathan to urged Ribadu that he should desist from parading himself as a man of integrity. Little wonder, Jonathan through his campaign organizationstated that, “to also show Ribadu’s lack of faith in the anti-corruption fight, he recently said and we quote:“I won’t bother myself with the integrity of politicians that will fund my campaign. I will take corrupt politicians money for my campaign as far as the money is not put in my pocket.”
It is also curious to note that Jonathan and Dame Patience Goodluckwho were quick in quoting Ribadu to establish their innocence ironically rejected Nuhu Ribadu’s recent exoneration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of any public trust abuse during the latter’s 8-years reign as the Governor of Lagos State. As stated Jonathan through his presidential Campaign Committee, “the Campaign Committee recalled that in 2007 while answering questions from the Senate on the alleged acts of corruption by some governors, Ribadu pointedly said that the corruption of the former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu was “of international dimension …”.
Is it not curious that the same person with such a tag is now the political godfather of Ribadu and sole financier of his political campaigns?… “Ribadu by such posturing has given Tinubu a clean bill of health which is not only hypocritical, but evidence that given the same opportunity, he would not have done better than the governors whom he had indicted.”
Premised on the above position of Jonathan Goodluck on Nuhu Ribadu as an hypocritical personality, a position, upon which Jonathan predicated his rejection of Tinubu’s exoneration by Ribadu,then, it is only logical that all right thinking persons should also dismiss Ribadu’s exoneration of Jonathan and Dame Patience Goodluck of any complicity in the case of money laundering under consideration as hypocritical and fallacious.
From the above analysis, there are some discernible apparent patterns in how the personalities of Goodluck and Patience Jonathanhave been unfolding in time. One is that, in an effort to achieve their bids of becoming, they have decided to cover a part of their past and use all means possible to prevent those seeking to revisit itas agents of blackmail.
It seems it was this reality that made the discerning Moses E. Ochonu, Assistant Professor of History concluded that, “President Jonathan Goodluck’s ambition is built and sustained partly on blackmail.” Ochonu added, “but blackmail is only one item in the Jonathan presidential toolbox, revisionist history is another.”
It could be recollected that the twin bomb blasts that rocked the litigious 50th Independence anniversary of Nigeria from colonial servitude caused ethno-political hiccups, and exchange of tirades across divides and affiliations. In effect, accusing fingers were pointed at the probable master minders of the blast to the extent that individuals with different pedigree and affiliations were arrested, interrogated and arraigned by the Jonathan’s government.
Ironically, the only group, MEND, which claimed responsibility for the attack was offered a clean bill of health by President Jonathan Ebele Goodluck. Accordingly, Jonathan stated, “The name of MEND association that operates in Niger Delta was only used. I grew up in the Niger Delta so nobody can claim to know Niger Delta better thanmyself, because I am from the Niger Delta. I know the person behind the attack and the person sponsoring it. They are terrorists, not MEND.”
He also added, “the government knows them and would fish them out as investigations proceed.” This slipshod vituperation one may want to contend, raises a series of salient questions on the leadership credentials of Goodluck. Given the fact this statement of exoneration issued MEND by Jonathan preceded any known investigation into this matter, then, he may be guilty of playing politics of blame, culpable of policitization of national security and gross incompetence in handling national matters. A more revealing part of the above statement credited to Jonathan is that which reads, “I know the person behind the attack and the person sponsoring it.” It should be asked,who is this fellow Jonathan had inmind or was refereeing to as the brain behind the bomb blast? Could it be one definite individual or that the identity of such individual will depend on Jonathan’s ambition of becoming? We mayneed to probe further.
If one could recollect vividly as well, Raymond Dokpesi, who then was the campaign manager of former dictator Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, one of the strong contenders who was vying alongside Jonathan for the PDP Presidential ticket, was detained in connectionwith this bombing issue. One may need simply guess Babaginda’s alleged involvement.
On the eve of a New Year, precisely on 31 December, 2010, Nigeriawitnessed another bomb blast at “Mammy” market attached to the Abacha Barracks in the Asokoro area of Abuja. While reacting to thistragic development, the leadership of Jonathan Goodluck concluded and announced that, “the recent bomb blasts in Nigeria were politically-motivated and handiwork of detractors who wanted to bring down the present administration.”
With thorough investigation yet to be conducted into this issue, on 1January, 2011, after a New Year service at the Evangelical Church ofWest Africa (ECWA) Abuja, Jonathan proclaimed, “the preliminary analysis of the explosives so far used in Nigeria, the one used in the October 1 explosion has the same characteristics with the ones that happened in Port Harcourt, Warri and some parts of the Niger Delta,it has been classified. The one that happened yesterday (Friday) from preliminary analysis is identical with the ones that happened inJos. So there are two routes. As long as the security operatives know the two routes, we will get to where these things are coming from.”
On the 3 January, 2010, the Minister of Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho (rtd.), was reported to have said that it was too early to link the bomb blasts at the mammy market beside Mogadishu Military Barracks to the Christmas Eve explosions in Jos, Plateau State. Again one observes the problem of hasty judgement, fabrication of a non-existing security report and a sly attempt to blame those who were assumed to be allegedly responsible for the obdurate Jos mayhem and the Niger Delta arm-struggle as the sponsors of the 2nd Abuja bombing.
From the instances analyzed so far, it is evident that revisionist politics of black mail and the use of deceit to cover up facts of history underlie Jonathan Goodluck’s attempts at becoming Nigeria’spresident. Since history is what David McCullough describes as, “who we are and why we are the way we are” Nigerians have reasons to think outside the status quo in navigating their search fora better future.
Also, in view of the fact that the ignoble inaction of our corrupt leaders, is a core factor that led us to where we are at the moment, the tomorrow we are seeking will only be a moment of respite, if, we make amends by entrusting the navigation of our country’s future in care of those whose yesterday was not part of what contributed to the culture of corruption and blackmail that make ourtoday miserable.
Wouldn’t it be right that to say that the Jonathan and Dame Patience Goodluck’s activities in time examined so far has imposed on us all, the burden of learning from the past, and the present, by making at the desirable time, desirable decision and desirable effort, that is built on desirable foundation and redirected in the desirable direction.