For this reason,Goodluck Ebele Jonathan you already have my vote!

APC don't have shame,these party is made up failures who couldn't do anything for their OWN state,before you even talk of Nigeria as a whole.
Pls tell me what did dis old men
A)Bola Tinubu-Lagos state
B)Segun Osoba-Ogun
C)Bisi Akande-Osun
D)Sani Yerima-Zamfara etc
Achieved during their time in power in their very own state.
Majority of senators that supported child marriage are from APC. Is time we ask Mimiko why he refused dis people advances. These are the men that finances BH since the lost last election and all their aim is to distablize this country. Can we handover our future to men that bombed our country on the peak of our jubilee celebration, can we give our destiny to men that has killed our brothers,parents and turned our women to widows through d BH insurgency. We don't want people who think the will get into power by force and against our will. If GEJ fail its their fault,cos there won't be development amidst of violence. Arise o'competriot and let's be wise.

i hate seeing nation leaders behaving like kids

calaway: NNA THESE GUY (HAUSA AND YORUBA) WILL LOOK FOR EVERY POSSIBLE WAY DO MESS UP GEJ!!!

INSULT HIM
CRITICIZE HIS EVERY MOVE
DETONATE BOMBS
DEPORT FELLOW NIGERIAN CITIZEN ON WHOES OIL AND HUMAN CAPITAL THEY THRIVE.
I AM SURE IF IT WAS POSSIBLE THE WOULD HAVE KILLED GEJ.

And they will not succeed!
Most people I talk with who have the interest of this nation at heart all acknowledge the work being done to sanitize this nation and the economy... Kindergarten my foot!
He will not sanitize this country and some power drunken people come and mess up things again.

executinal:

If Akande is old enough to be GEJ father, he could have respected himself by not telling Mr President that he is running Kindergarten president.

Abati is working fire for fire.

Exactly!

[b][/b]aggressive nature of pdp mumus

APC just dey disturb presidency...its just a tactics to distabilize jonathan!
Jona beta focus on this country bcus APC is so freakin experienced in politics,dem go troway am from seat wen time come!

Odechukwu, do your worst!

willibounce:

You have started again. Igbos aRe d only ppl being bombed in d north abi? And they aRe d only ppl being deported. I still don't understand how somebody from bayelsa is an Igbo man. Bayelsans and Igbos don't speak dsame language abeg.

SE/SS HAVE THE SAME DESTINY

Nna men! I'm a sucker for intelligent responses. See dissecting! See eloquence! My President, pls you have to, no, you must sack Abati and hire some1 that will go toe-to-toe with the opposition.

Dominiquez: APC don't have shame,these party is made up failures who couldn't do anything for their OWN state,before you even talk of Nigeria as a whole.
Pls tell me what did dis old men
A)Bola Tinubu-Lagos state
B)Segun Osoba-Ogun
C)Bisi Akande-Osun
D)Sani Yerima-Zamfara etc
Achieved during their time in power in their very own state.
Majority of senators that supported child marriage are from APC. Is time we ask Mimiko why he refused dis people advances. These are the men that finances BH since the lost last election and all their aim is to distablize this country. Can we handover our future to men that bombed our country on the peak of our jubilee celebration, can we give our destiny to men that has killed our brothers,parents and turned our women to widows through d BH insurgency. We don't want people who think the will get into power by force and against our will. If GEJ fail its their fault,cos there won't be development amidst of violence. Arise o'competriot and let's be wise.

Ignoring obvious lies and mis-information in your post can you name and count the achievements of GEJ when he was a teacher, governor and now president.
What major milestone achievements qualifies him for another term.
Has he being able to dent corruption a major national problem (remember he said he finds no correlation between corruption and bad infrastructure)
Has he put in place policy to create mass employment
Has he put in place (or constructing)any new major infrastructure

He was voted in based mainly on pure emotion and the same mistake is about to be repeated.
Nigerians have a penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Same way most Nigerians preferred Shehu Shagari to Obafemi Awolowo in 1979 and ended up with economic disaster. Even Awo's worst critics know in their hearts Nigeria would have taken a better turn if he won that election. Make the mistake again and get your fresh air and let the rape and pillaging continue

We all need to understand the situation on ground that the government of this day is bad, the president he's. running government like baby, no security,unemployment for youth bad electricity, no water, no good Road, no quality education etc ASUU has been on strike for 42th days ago. He has no solution to it and he called himself president, not kindergarten president, ends has justify the means now.

slim fit :
It looks like people who come here to defend Jonathan are all illiterate them selves or beneficiaries of his loose distribution of the national treasury.

And you`re a beneficiary of what? Accept my sympathy!

phickycool: We all need to understand the situation on ground that the government of this day is bad, the president he's. running government like baby, no security,unemployment for youth bad electricity, no water, no good Road, no quality education etc ASUU has been on strike for 42th days ago. He has no solution to it and he called himself president, not kindergarten presid—ent,“ ends has justify the means now.

First and foremost,is it also GEJ that is responsible for your apologethic tences? what a waste that you are. Anyways,your case is understable and pitiable.

bisi akande is just but an expired old ignoramus who is too proud to learn from the realities of the 21st century. isn`t obvious enough to akande and his handlers that their time is up? we don`t need the likes of akande to advice GEJ;akande failed woefully at the state level even when the political firmament wasn`t as tensed as it is now. GEJ shunned him simply because akande`s brightest advice is nothing better than a toilet paper?

Mr shroud:

There is a *thin line* between critism and ridicule.
Both Ur old eye sockets are pro'lly worked out, expired, and near to its grave so it can't recognise *thin lines*
*in other news* toddlers develope before u know it, this is as clearly potrayed in "the young shall grow"
but the old can't grow no more bro, and they walk so slowly.
As, u mr boladex rightly pointed out, they're the residual of experience. So this old people should lend it through advice and not ridicule. Ridicule is not a character of an old man when i last checked my mail of thoughts.
I know a vast number of Nlanders
Would prefer to be in #team young shall grow# instead of #team old folks#

What a young man cannot see standing, an elder will see sitting down. That is my response to you comment about seeing the thin line.

Yes i guess some of us have low tolerance for mediocrity! Hence we look at the substance over abstract matters. Tell me what part of the statement that ridicules Mr President? or what part of it is false?

The young shall grow if they have the focus and drive to do so. A child that plays at the edge of a river is not likely to grow.Just to draw your attention to the fact that Mr Akande wrote several letters to the presidency and even held discussions before he came out to voice his opinion on the clueless Presidency. Guess you missed that part of the statement from Chief Akande?

chakpe: bisi akande is just but an expired old ignoramus who is too proud to learn from the realities of the 21st century. isn`t obvious enough to akande and his handlers that their time is up? we don`t need the likes of akande to advice GEJ;akande failed woefully at the state level even when the political firmament wasn`t as tensed as it is now. GEJ shunned him simply because akande`s brightest advice is nothing better than a toilet paper?

How did he fail in Osun state? deal with facts and not illusions and who is the we that does not need his advice? It was the same Toilet paper advice that helped GEJ reach that seat when he was to weak to stand up against the CABAL that held his TESTICLES firmly in 2009

When wil all dese stop? Mr presdnt dis Mr presdnt dat, hw do wil reconcil dis? Jonathn when he VP during Yaradua, Mr Yaradua die bt d refused to pronuce d VP cos Jonathn is SS, he kept quiet til d dn't what to do & pressure after so many months. Now he has becum Mr presdnt same pressure is distablising his govt in d name of 'BOKO HARAM' dis born 2 rule is tearng d national apart. Now any1 can talk. Pls we shld ask God to help instead of critism.

boladez:

How did he fail in Osun state? deal with facts and not illusions and who is the we that does not need his advice? It was the same Toilet paper advice that helped GEJ reach that seat when he was to weak to stand up against the CABAL that held his TESTICLES firmly in 2009

I perceive you're an appendage of akande's wasted lineage! What do you understand by the term ILLUSION? Simply, the WE is the New Breed Digitalised Folks and not some outdated analog hags in the likes of akande and your cul-de-sac (a miserable wretch in the midst of plenty) self!And you're so convinced beyound your fishbrain that akande's advice brought GEJ to power? I pity you. What cabal? Omo, achievement to a wise man is not necessarily in his standing up as you've stated;the end justify the means and as you can see: GEJ is your President! If that's too bad for you to accept, feel free to go hug a wet transformer!

chakpe:

I perceive you're an appendage of akande's wasted lineage! What do you understand by the term ILLUSION? Simply, the WE is the New Breed Digitalised Folks and not some outdated analog hags in the likes of akande and your cul-de-sac (a miserable wretch in the midst of plenty) self!And you're so convinced beyound your fishbrain that akande's advice brought GEJ to power? I pity you. What cabal? Omo, achievement to a wise man is not necessarily in his standing up as you've stated;the end justify the means and as you can see: GEJ is your President! If that's too bad for you to accept, feel free to go hug a wet transformer!

Mr Abati, Without joining in your tantrums, I will try and filter out the coherent parts of your posts.

Again, just in case you missed my question , how did he fail in Osun state?

To answer your question illusion means a false belief or idea

You claim to be a WE of New Breed Digitalised Folks (how many people have you mobilised or influenced in your life?) I am not worried because with your current thought process you may not be able to go too far. Mediocrity will always fall by the road side.

Note- I did not say in my post that Akande's advice brought GEJ into power - assimilation is quite key to the Newbreed guys I know. Please read more of History and literature to improve your assimilation process.

If you ask me about the CABAL!!....then I refer you to the advice in the paragraph above this. (Go back and use google to help you know recent history)

Gosh the quality of posts in the Politics section is really at an all time low its more of emotions and insults that quality intellectual discussions).........Hugging a wet trasnformer is safe in Nigeria of today cos your mentor is still not able to provide PAWA! (in his words) better to ask me to hug a generator. They blame power generation issues on political opponents when they have the mandate to secure those pipelines.

I know its difficult for you to assimilate and stick to facts but try and raise your level of knowledge and leave kindergarten to Basic 1...ok?

boladez:

Mr Abati, Without joining in your tantrums, I will try and filter out the coherent parts of your posts.

Again, just in case you missed my question , how did he fail in Osun state?

To answer your question illusion means a false belief or idea

You claim to be a WE of New Breed Digitalised Folks (how many people have you mobilised or influenced in your life?) I am not worried because with your current thought process you may not be able to go too far. Mediocrity will always fall by the road side.

Note- I did not say in my post that Akande's advice brought GEJ into power - assimilation is quite key to the Newbreed guys I know. Please read more of History and literature to improve your assimilation process.

If you ask me about the CABAL!!....then I refer you to the advice in the paragraph above this. (Go back and use google to help you know recent history)

Gosh the quality of posts in the Politics section is really at an all time low its more of emotions and insults that quality intellectual discussions).........Hugging a wet trasnformer is safe in Nigeria of today cos your mentor is still not able to provide PAWA! (in his words) better to ask me to hug a generator. They blame power generation issues on political opponents when they have the mandate to secure those pipelines.

I know its difficult for you to assimilate and stick to facts but try and raise your level of knowledge and leave kindergarten to Basic 1...ok?

I can see you`re under the influence of hallucinogen! When eye clear you,I dearly hope it would`nt be too late.

chakpe: I can see you`re under the influence of hallucinogen! When eye clear you,I dearly hope it would`nt be too late.

OK!.... self confession! no wonder you are unable to handle any semblance of intellectual and factual discourse. I leave you to continue to play in your Kindergarten league.

Honestly , I apologise for bothering to respond to you, I can see you have developed OLIGOPHRENIA as a result of your prolonged stay in the kindergarten occasioned by your inactive state of mind based on the extremely high hallucinogen content of your blood which may have been a direct consequence of generation X parentage. We warned them at the time!

Wish you well mate and enjoy your brief existence of mediocrity while it lasts....during the short farce ....seek to play and exhibit your tantrums with a barney reception pupil, more intelligent kids are in kindergarten these days!

( Speak to your lawyer or good neighbour to interpret this post)

Nigeria's journey to liberation is in dire straits with comments from supposed intellectuals (we excuse the illiterates) with this pervasive culture of extremely low expectations from leadership.

Can these people provide the robust leadership required for the physical and mental emancipation of the battered blacks all over the world? Your guess is as good as mine. See below the opinion of a commentator with likely no affiliations to PDP, ACN, APC APGA or whatever.

Femke Becomes Funke: Celebrating Mediocrity In Nigeria By Femke van Zeijl
Posted: March 21, 2013 - 06:02


Femke Van Zeijl
By Femke Van Zeijl

I used to think corruption was Nigeria’s biggest problem, but I’m starting to doubt that. Every time I probe into one of the many issues this country is encountering, at the core I find the same phenomenon: the widespread celebration of mediocrity. Unrebuked underachievement seems to be the rule in all facets of society. A governor building a single road during his entire tenure is revered like the next Messiah; an averagely talented author who writes a colourless book gets sponsored to represent Nigerian literature overseas; and a young woman with no secretarial skills to speak of gets promoted to the oga’s office faster than any of her properly trained colleagues.

Needless to say the politician is probably hailed by those awaiting part of the loot he is stealing; the writer might have got his sponsorship from buddies he has been sucking up to in hagiographies paid for by the subjects; and the young woman’s promotion is likely to be an exchange for sex or the expectancy of it. So some form of corruption plays a role in all of these examples.

But corruption per se does not necessarily stand in the way of development. Otherwise a country like Indonesia—number 118 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, not that far removed from Nigeria’s 139—would never have made it to the G-20 group of major economies. An even more serious obstacle to development is the lack of repercussions for underachievement. Who in Nigeria is ever held accountable for substandard performance?

Since I came here, I have been on a futile search for a stable internet connection that does what it promises. I started with an MTN FastLink modem (I consider the name a cruel joke), and then I moved on to an Etisalat MiFi connection (I regularly had to keep myself from throwing the bloody thing against the wall), and now I am trying out Cobranet’s U-Go. I shouldn’t have bothered: equally crap. And everyone knows this. They groan and mutter and tweet about it. But still, to my surprise, no one calls for a class-action suit against those deceitful providers.

A one-day conference I attended last year left me equally puzzled. Organisation, attendance and outcome left a lot to be desired, if you ask me. But over cocktails, after the closing ceremony, everyone congratulated each other over the wonderful conference—that started two hours late, of which the most animated part was undeniably lunch, and in which not a single tangible decision had been made. This left me wondering whether we had attended the same event.

I thought these issues to be unrelated at first, but gradually I came to see the connection. Nigeria is the opposite of a meritocracy: you do not earn by achieving. You get to be who and where you are by knowing the right people. Whether you work in an office, for an enterprise or an NGO, at a construction site or in government, your abilities hardly ever are the reason you got there. Performing well, let alone with excellence, is not a requirement, in fact, it is discouraged. It would be too threatening: showing you’re more intelligent, capable or competent than the ‘oga at the top’ (who, as a rule, is not an overachiever either) is career suicide.

It is an attitude that trickles down from the very top, its symptoms eventually showing up in all of society, from bad governance to bad service to bad craftsmanship.

Where excellence meets no gratification, what remains to be celebrated is underachievement. That is why it is not uncommon to find Nigerians congratulating each other with substandard results. It is safer to cuddle up comfortably in shared mediocrity than to question it, since the latter might also expose your own less than exceptional performance. Add to this the taboo of criticising anyone senior or higher up and it explains why so many join in the admiration of the emperor’s new clothes.

I have been writing this column for the last year, and after ten months I realised my angles were getting more predictable and my pieces less edgy. I figured newcomers do not remain newcomers forever and therefore decided to round up the ‘Femke Becomes Funke’ series this month, a year after it started. Ever since I announced the ending, tweeps have been asking me to change my mind and in comments on the columns and through my website I get songs of praise that make me feel my analyses of Nigerian society are indispensable. If I had no sense of self-criticism, I might be tempted to reconsider my decision to discontinue the series and start producing second-rate articles. Who would point this out to me if I did?

The hardest thing to do in Nigeria is to continue to realise there is honour in achievement and pride in perfection. I imagine the frustration of the many Nigerians who do care for their work, who take pride in their outcomes and who feel the award is in a job well done. When you know beforehand that excellence will not be rewarded, you are bound to do the economically sane thing and limit your investments to accomplishing the bare minimum. This makes Nigeria a pretty cumbersome place for anyone striving for perfection.
Talk to Femke on Twitter: @femkevanzeijl

Source from Gbawe's post

https://www.nairaland.com/1393118/jonathan-unserious-president-bisi-akande/2

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