BraniacX:

Unless shipping me of is the idea, what's the point?

onomeglo:
sowei,dnt get ya

BraniacX:


Just tell me am boring you
Common onome, how bad can I be?

leanalyst:

Please give us a break. OBJ just indirectly said that he didn't start anything and couldn't have started it. Stop trying to cover up for him, also remind us of one of OBJ achievements apart from third term schemes & scandals.

Genius100:
What most do not know is that GEJ's railway was a bastardization of the project began by OBJ. OBJ completed the design, awarded the contract and started the project only for GEJ to bastardise the project with an obsolete design while stealing loads of money

Genius100:


Guy, please learn to do a little research before opening your mouth gboa gboa in public only to comes across as an ignoramus...

OBJ oversaw the GSM revolution which is likely one of the reasons you are able to post on Nairaland. We all saw what happened when GEJ did his own privatisation with electricity

Genius100:


Guy, please learn to do a little research before opening your mouth gboa gboa in public only to comes across as an ignoramus...

OBJ oversaw the GSM revolution which is likely one of the reasons you are able to post on Nairaland. We all saw what happened when GEJ did his own privatization with electricity

obailala:
For those of you wondering what OBJ did in 8 years, you are not to be blamed. Most Nigerian Africans only see the present and are incapable of looking into the future or seeing the bigger picture. To most Africans, a good president is the one that builds/renovates roads for immediate consumption.

Obj saved several billions of dollars in his 8 years of leadership so that his successor will have funds to bring about massive infrastructural development. Go and check the amount he met in Nigerian coffers in 1999 when he assumed office and also check the amount he left behind when he left. Good leadership requires forward thinking, vision and proper planning. It is not about indiscriminately awarding contracts or what you achieve now, but rather, it is about what your efforts achieve much later for your constituents.

After many years of military rule, OBJ successfully lifted Nigeria out of a deep economic and political pit and placed Nigeria on the world economic map. OBJ cleared Nigeria's external debts and boosted our foreign reserves like never before. The reason behind that was to strengthen Nigeria's credit worthiness and restore Nigeria's political relevance in the international scheme of things. OBJ's 'wasted' 8 years was wasted in building a mega-momentum for the nation to launch us into massive infrastructural development. Unfortunately for OBJ and for Nigeria, OBJ never knew his successors were going to be visionless, irresponsible wasters.

The train tracks you talk about, it was under OBJ's regime that the masterplan of the modernised Nigerian railway system was prepared. OBJ successfully constructed the Ajaokuta - Warri standard gauge line (which is of great economic importance to the steel cities) and he was about commencing the Abuja to Kaduna standard gauge rail when he handed over to Yaradua. However GEJ came in and renovated the 1903 narrow gauge tracks from Lagos to Kano instead of following the masterplan which was meant to replace the old tracks with modern standard gauges. Now we can only have snail speed trains and people are celebrating GEJ and insulting OBJ. A little investigation would even reveal that the money squandered in resuscitating the 1903 lines would have at least built half of the modern lines thereby giving us standard world class high speed trains.

driy65:
the ajaokuta -warri guage line that has never worked.guy u nid a brain check

ApcSucks:



That foolish ape won't rest tot of jonathan gives him election he shd go suck Oby ezekwesili expired boobs to save him from going senile

sped1oro:
For those hating Obasanjo, please mention any other person who commands so much influence both at home and abroad, even President Buhari is nowhere near the achievements of OBJ. The problem with Tanoids, Jonathanians and wailing wailers is that they prefer to continue with the status quo of Stealing which their paymaster said,'its not corruption'.

gratiaeo:
By Moshood Adebayo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday slammed ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for lacking vision  in the rehabilitation of the railways.

He based his criticism on the fact that the railway lines were obsolete as they were constructed in 1903 and could not match the modern global trends.

The Jonathan administration embarked on the rehabilitation of the railway system with a view of overhauling the sector which had decayed for years and abandoned by previous governments.

“For what reason should anybody in his right senses in Nigeria of today believe that rehabilitating the railway system which was completed in 1903 to carry three million tonnes of goods is what we need today,” he said.

The former president who spoke during a television programme monitored yesterday said there was no earthly reason why the rehabilitated railway system of Nigeria today could serve Nigerians

Obasanjo, who  noted that the system was divided into two, Eastern and Western, lamented that the latter caused a whooping $8.3 billion Dollars

According to him, ‘if Nigeria would achieve the vision 20-20-20, we would need a first class land, water and air transportation, and good land transportation can only be railway and roads.



http://sunnewsonline.com/new/railways-jonathan-lacked-vision-obasanjo/

obailala:
You are the one who needs a brain check for insulting before comprehending. Where did I state that the line was working?

babestella:


Which OBJ oversaw GSM, please stop that. GSM came to Nigeria because it was the right time for it to come, and soon as ity came, Nitel went into extinction. As at the time GSM came to Nigeria, most west african countries already had GSM. Technology was sweeping across all nations, OBJ couldn't had stopped it.

It's like saying OBJ oversaw children growing teeth, it's funny because your teeth will always grown when the tike is due, no human can stop it. GSM was a developmental investment that was bound to happen, it only happened during the time of OBJ. One of the factors that facilitated this was a stable democratic process which normally boosts investors confidence on ROI.

obailala:
Bro, first of all, i am from the south east. The only difference between both of us however is that I have chosen to be objective in my approach in national issues. Your blabbing about south westerners and Cameroon and ICJ etc is more than enough evidence to confirm your lack of objectivity. You do not deserve a further response.. Good day!

coolestrogue:
I don't know why elders from the southwest like to talk too much
, he spent 8 years and didn't do anything, jonathan spent 6 and he did railway. Obj is just fooling his old age

klexym:
The truth some people find hard to accept is that OBJ did well for Nigeria during his tenure as democratically elected president of Nigeria. His singualr efforts brought Nigeria back on the global map as an emerging economy to reckon with only for the clueless administrations of Ya'adua and Jonathan to rubish the efforts with daylight robbery of the national commonwealth. If not that we do not have an existing value system, one does not expect some people to come to a forum like this to defend Jonathan against genuine comments made by OBJ on how GEJ lost focus and failed.

Which dirty singular efforts, for crying out loud??! !