Reno Omokri was irked by what he read about the performance of his Oga at the top published yesterday by The Guardian UK (Goodluck Jonathan's Report Card for Nigeria? Must Try Harder - Remi Adekoya). So he responds and he argues strongly. Maybe the President has had too much bad press, that's why his efforts are not being seen or appreciated, but i think this is the paragraph that must have enraged Mr.Omokri. A direct threat to his plate of rice.

"It's no easy job running a country that is half-Christian, half-Muslim, underdeveloped and home to some 250 ethnic groups. Some say Jonathan is too weak for the job. But you don't have to be a great man to be a great president, as long as you are clever enough to you surround yourself with wise advisers, possess the intelligence to process information and have a steadfast desire to improve things for your people."

Omokri's response

I just read Mr. Remi Adekoya's piece in the Guardian of the U.K. entitled ‘Goodluck Jonathan's report card for Nigeria? Must try harder’ in which he praised President Jonathan for a booming economy but came down hard on him for failing to help Nigeria's poor. When Adekoya says "Infrastructure also remains a problem. Without a modern road network, doing business in Nigeria will remain prohibitively expensive and logistically challenging", he betrays a surface understanding of recent events in Nigeria. For example, before the Jonathan administration if you wanted to travel from Lagos to Kano you had two choices, you either went by road or by air. Today, under President Jonathan’s direction, Nigeria's railways have been revived and a traveler planning the same journey has a third alternative. He can travel from Lagos to Kano by rail at a cost of 1500 Naira which is less than $10. It is rather surprising that Mr. Adekoya did not reflect this major development in his piece especially when you consider that Nigeria's rail revival miracle has received praise from some of the major newspapers and magazines in the West. Jon Gambrell of the Associated Press had a string of highly syndicated photos recording this feat. But when you think of it, it is hard for someone reviewing Nigeria's progress from the United Kingdom to have first hand information.

Besides, what does Mr. Adekoya consider a "modern road network"? Under this administration, previously abandoned road projects have been completed. The previously notorious Lagos-Ore-Benin motorway has been repaired and I personally supplied photographic evidence of that feat on Social Media as well as highlighted testimonials from Nigerians testifying to a reduced travel time from Lagos to Benin since the repairs. In the Federal Capital Territory, Nigerians are now calling the new Kubwa Express-way our own version of Germany's autobahn I lived in England for a while and I know the state of its roads and I dare say that Mr. Adekoya would wish he had a fast car when he sees this new road that connects the business and commercial districts of Abuja to some of its satellite towns.

In his budget speech, the President listed major roads that have been completed and many that are ongoing. Some major road projects that have been rehabilitated and completed include the Vom-Machom road in Plateau State, the Gombe-Numan-Yoka road, Kano-Daura-Mai Adua road, Aba-Owerri road, Dualization of the Access road to Onne Port in River state and the Ijebu Igbo-Ajegunle-Araromi-Ife-Sekona road in Ogun state. But perhaps the greatest testimonial to the administration’s efforts in roads comes from an advert from the privately owned luxury bus operator, ABC Transport, which reads 'The Roads are Getting Better’. This is from an end user of the product. Those words carry more weight than the words of a pundit who writes about Nigeria from the comforts of London.
Still on infrastructure, Mr. Adekoya forgot to tell his British audience that while it may be true that Nigeria still does not generate enough electricity for its population, the Jonathan administration has nonetheless increased generation from the 2800 MWs it met on ground to the present 4500 MWs Nigeria generates today a 35% improvement. But that is not even the main story. This administration has kept faith with the Roadmap to Power Sector Reforms that the President launched on August 22nd 2010 which in summary charted a course for the privatization of the nation's power sector.

In keeping with that Roadmap, Nigeria has successfully privatized many of her power generation stations and on April 22nd this year a Presidential Power Reform Transactions Signing Ceremony was held at the Presidential Villa where the five power generation companies that emerged successful in the bidding process of the privatization of the sector received their certificates. But certainly Mr. Adekoya could not have failed to take note of the praises the power privatization process received worldwide. It was remarkably transparent which is a departure from the past and signals that Nigeria is a safe place to invest which is no surprise given that even the Prime Minister of The United Kingdom, David Cameron, himself led a trade delegation of some of Britain's top businesses to Nigeria and on return said "We've been hearing about China and India for years but it’s hard to believe what’s happening in Brazil, in Indonesia, in Nigeria". Mr. Cameron certainly knows a great deal more about Nigeria under President Jonathan than Mr. Adekoya does!

And then Mr. Adekoya goes on to say "Education is particularly problematic: tens of millions of Nigerians are illiterate. Most cannot afford an education: without government assistance, thus far feeble, they will remain intellectual invalids."Really Mr. Adekoya! Are you talking about the same Nigeria where President Jonathan initiated a programme to provide 400 schools for itinerant scholars in Northern Nigeria known as Almajiri? The President commissioned the first of these schools on the 10th of April 2012 with almost a 100 completed in 2012. The administration has also increased the number of Federal universities in Nigeria by 12 as well as completed hundreds of blocks of classrooms in 15 states as part of efforts to meet her Millennium Development Goals.
But the cherry on the education cake is that there has been a 15% increase in pass rates in School Leaving examinations in Nigeria in 2012 when compared to the 2011 season an indication that the government's efforts are succeeding.

And then Mr. Adekoya thoroughly pooh-poohed our health sector which I will admit still needs a lot of improvement, but he did not note the improvements which the Jonathan administration made to what it met on the ground. For instance, this administration established a National Trauma Center in the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital and the National Hospital Abuja. Mr. Adekoya failed to note recent feats in Nigeria's health sector such as the commencement of Stem Cell Transplant for sickle cell patients at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital and the Introduction of Laser Treatment of Kidney Stones at Chivar Urological Center, Abuja.

Adekoya may wish to note that Nigeria’s Life Expectancy increased from 47 years to 51 years according to the 2011 Human Development Index of the United Nations. That represented the highest increase for Nigeria since records were kept. If anything puts to lie Adekoya’s assertions on minimal improvements in Nigeria’s health sector under President Jonathan certainly it is this fact. And then Adekoya’s poison pen wrote that “On security, Jonathan has dithered. Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorist group, has killed thousands on his watch, while he seems unsure whether to use crushing force or grant "amnesty". It may interest Mr. Adekoya to get the recent statement released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,(OHCHR), which praised President Jonathan for considering amnesty for Boko Haram. Yes, it is easy for Adekoya to sit down in London and pontificate, but if he were to see firsthand the sufferings our brothers and sisters in the North face as a result of this sect he would understand that discretion is the better part of valour. After all, the government of the United Kingdom which almost lost its entire cabinet to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Brighton Bomb incidence of 1984 eventually chose to negotiate with them and today there is peace. All the guns and bombs of the British Army could not defeat the IRA as much as diplomacy and negotiation. Is Adekoya saying that it is good for the U.K. but not for Nigeria?What I will just say to Mr. Adekoya is that nation's progress over time and not over night and it betrays a lack of understanding of Nigeria's past and how far we have come to score President Jonathan poorly in meeting the needs of the poor. It is not for nothing that Henry Bellingham, a Member of Parliament as well as a member of Mr. Cameron's administration said "Nigeria is the world's fourth fastest growing economy". You don't achieve that level of economic progress if you have not made reasonable efforts to better the lot of the masses whose productivity is the reason for such a phenomenal growth! Thankfully David Cameron gets it and I for one am so glad that he is in charge of affairs in the United Kingdom and certainly won't fall for the very pedestrian analysis that Mr. Adekoya Adekoya tries to pass off to his British audience as in-depth.

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Reno Omokri is a great patriot and a true Nigerian. I find in him the ingredients to make a good intellectual soup for politically knowledgeable consumption. He, Reno, is a great mind.

The twitter lapdog licking Jonathan arse to justify his pay

Very tight rebuttal. @moderators, Front page pls!

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Billyonaire: Reno Omokri is a great patriot and a true Nigerian. I find in him the ingredients to make a good intellectual soup for politically knowledgeable consumption. He, Reno, is a great mind.

I tot, Beaf = Billyonaire = Reno Omokri ...... okkkk, now where is Beaf pls I want his new handle ,

Facts are sacred. Thanks Reno for setting the record straight

As expected, he quickly jumps to NL to further promote his GEJ reputation cleansing piece . . . seeth thou a man doeth his job diligently he shall stand before kings and not mean men. Chai!

Bad press on Jonathan have truly overshadowed his major achievements. I must confess, I never knew d ore road has been completed.

Truth is bitter.

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cum 2019 gej al d way. Haters go die

I read the guys piece and he gave GEJ a C in power and infrastructure but an F in health, security and education.

The recent jamb results gives credence to the F in education
Boko Haram gives credence to the F in security

As for health with all the imporvements Reno is talking about, why wasn't Patience treated in Nigeria?

Jonathan's record on corruption is a disgrace. A recent report from the US State Department was spot on when it cited "massive, widespread, and pervasive corruption affecting all levels of government".Asked to disclose his assets, the man whose parents couldn't afford shoes refused. For emphasis, he said he "doesn't give a damn" what anybody thinks about it. The Council of States, led by Jonathan, meanwhile pardoned his former boss, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who had been convicted of money-laundering.

I am not surprised Reno conveniently skipped this monstrous label of disgrace embossed on breastplate of Jonathan's Presidency.

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If you deceieved your fellow countrymen,arrest leadership journalists and intimidate the oppositions,sorry to say,you can't deceieve outsiders.

The whole world is just laughing at how Nigeria has become a failed state under the distinguished retardeen himself.

Ok we hear.......the president has tried! But please let him do more. Is that too big to ask? The money is there,let them use it for development instead of loothing. These people don't know that" good name,is better than riches o".

Nice one.

Billyonaire: Reno Omokri is a great patriot and a true Nigerian. I find in him the ingredients to make a good intellectual soup for politically knowledgeable consumption. He, Reno, is a great mind.

So says one Reno to another Reno

Them go tire!


Jonathan is not the President Nigeria needs.


No one can deny that.

Beaf the house mouse, welcome back

uupgrade: cum 2019 gej al d way. Haters go die

As if Jonathan had an impact on your life

I don't have all d facts that the interlocutors have at their disposal and so I shall limit my comment to what is pleaded b4 us(court of public opinion). And in my own very considered judgment, I find it hard to discountenance d well-appointed response of Mr. Reno Omokiri, Counsel to d allegedly defamed party. He succeeded in setting forth a very strong and irresistible rebuttal to d piece by Mr. Adekoya, an aggrieved party who has approached this Court for judgment. Mr. Omokiri not only presented a palatable and tasty rendition of d facts as he knws dem, but he did so in a literary manner and style that many writers only aspire to. In fact, one may be forgiven for giving him judgment based only on d neatness and structure of his compelling logic and writing style, while ignoring d substance of his argument itself. I was almost carried away in admiration of his style, a ready reminder of the verbal exploits of Daniel Webb.
And so I shall proceed to give judgment on two very vital fronts: substance and style.
Without much ado, I readily uphold d claims of Mr. Omokiri as to substance and facts presented herein and hold same to be true for lack of any credible contrary averment or proof of same.
In the same vein, I also award judgment on d basis of style and logical presentation to Mr. Omokiri, and state without equivocation that even if all d substance of his averments as above were false in themselves, any Judge would also have been hard-pressed to deny Mr. Omokiri judgment owing solely to the aesthetics of his powerful presentation.
This is my own judgment. I await the judgment of my brother judges on this issue with anticipation. Dated this 8.5.2013.

Wow bravo to Reno ......This is far better than what Okupe would have said !!!


Reno should know that there are too many Roadmaps in each sector of the economy even before GEJ,He is thus adding his own !!!


What Nigerians need Today is actual Implementation that would be felt by all and sundry NOT the number of certificate that has been issued to private power generators,refinery moguls nor how many road projects that has been awarded et all

''IMPLEMENTATION of ROADMAPs'' in each MDAs is the KOKO(real-thing) !!!!

This political bootlickers wont fail to amuse me... They keep brandishing figures and stats that have no realistic effect on the people nor the country at large.

Reno more chilled bottles of star for u

Reno I love you

Rossikk: [b]THERE'S NOTHING AS ANNOYING AND IRRITATING AS SOMEBODY LIVING IN LONDON, AND WRITING TO CRITICISE DEVELOPMENTS IN NIGERIA - A PLACE HE KNOWS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT ITS DEVELOPMENT.

Error 101


The critic is a Nigerian Resident abroad despite that,u never can tell how deeply involved he is in Project Nigeria than thou !!!


He may speak authoritatively than you,Rossikk,a Nigerian resident in Nigeria !!!

There are obviously some errand boys of Abats, Reno and Okups monitoring NL 24 hours and defending GEJ without shame.

They are usually the first, the second and the third to comment and they write to pointlessly defend GEJ.

If your report sheet is good you wont need to be writing long stories like Reno just wrote. There wont be need for rejoinders. GEJ's so called special assistants are his worst enemies. They are making him loose popularity out there everyday.

Ask Obama, when you do well people will appreciate it. But when you perform poorly, you will only have MEDIA assistants to write long stories and rejoinders day after day.

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Rossikk: THERE'S NOTHING AS ANNOYING AND IRRITATING AS SOMEBODY LIVING IN LONDON, AND WRITING TO CRITICISE DEVELOPMENTS IN NIGERIA - A PLACE HE KNOWS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT ITS DEVELOPMENT.

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Billyonaire: Reno Omokri is a great patriot and a true Nigerian. I find in him the ingredients to make a good intellectual soup for politically knowledgeable consumption. He, Reno, is a great mind.

You are beaf. You are Reno. Thank you!