Next month, Nigerians will be voting to decide who becomes their next
president. I think that General Buhari’s
soaring popularity is a reflection of
how disenfranchised some of President
Jonathan’s supporter have become with
his performance in government over the last 6 years, and very little to do
with the quality of the opposition
candidate. I fear that, like in 2011, this
election has already been decided on
emotions rather than substance. But
that is not what concerns me today. Baga On the same day that 18 people were
massacred in France by Islamist
gunmen, Amnesty international
reported the massacre of about 2,000
Nigerians in Baga. There was worldwide
outrage and show of solidarity with the French people. However, there was
scarcely any mention of the Baga
massacre in the media. President
Jonathan promptly issued a statement
to condemn the Charlie Hebdo attack,
and rightly so. But, more than a week later, the president has yet to say
anything about the massacre that took
place in his own country. Even worse,
there are no Nigerians on the streets
protesting or standing in solidarity with
the people of Baga who have either been killed or forced to flee their
homes.
President Jonathan has demonstrated
over and over again that he lacks the
will power and a strategy to confront,
let alone defeat Boko Haram (BH). It took the visit by Malala Yusuf, nearly
several months after the Chibok
abductions, before the president saw
the need to speak to the families of the
abducted girls. President Jonathan told
world leaders in France at a meeting convened by President Hollande last
May that his government would build a
wall fence to protect the school from
further assaults. Incredible, but this
was our president’s response to a
question he was asked about the kind of support his government hopes to
give the families of the abducted girls
and why he had not yet visited the
school. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixCIuAHppC4)
As I have said in a previous article for
Sahara Reporters, http:// /1C32mRA, it is evident that the
President sees BH as a sectional
problem. He body language suggests
that he believes BH is a political tool
put in place to topple his government.
This perfectly explains his lackadaisical attitude to what is arguably Nigeria’s
biggest security threat since
Independence.
But, how about us, the people? My view
is that societies deserve the kind of
leadership that they get. Leaders do not drop from the sky – they are a
reflection of the society from which
they come. We have become
accustomed to the atrocities of BH to
the point where their nearly weekly
massacre of our countrymen hardly elicits any reaction from us. To us, the
victims are faceless and represent just
another statistic. It appears that our
society places very little value on
human life. An American or European
life is seemingly more valuable than a Nigerian life - little wonder then that
the world rallied around France where
18 people were killed but looked away
whilst 2,000 Nigerians got butchered!
Yet, there is not one Nigerian on the
street protesting the massacre and/or demanding action from the
government. You see, people can only
respect you as much as you respect
yourself. Not more.
The problem with Nigeria is . . . . . . .
Nigerians. I know how much we expect that a messiah will come to deliver us,
but neither president Jonathan nor
General Buhari nor anyone else is the
messiah. We don’t need a messiah;
what we need is a change of attitude
and values. Every one of us, that is. We have developed an unproductive habit
of relying on supernatural entities to
intervene and solve our problems. Every
way one turns, one is confronted with
such fatalistic pronouncements as:
‘God will do it’, ‘it is the will of God’, ‘it is well’, ‘e go better’, and so on. We
actually believe that soliloquy and
hunger strikes (aka prayers and fasting)
can solve the problems of leadership,
poor infrastructure and insecurity that
beset our country. We need to realize that these supernatural entities,
assuming they even exist, are not going
to do for us what we need to, and
should do, for ourselves.
At this point, it is pertinent to repeat
my old warnings: As experience has shown in Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and
with ISIS fighters in Iraq, situations like
ours can degenerate very rapidly, but
lives can be saved if the international
community acts decisively and timely.
We have a humanitarian crisis developing in Nigeria - whole
communities have been burnt down and
their population displaced; some of our
people have fled into neighboring
countries such as Cameroon, Chad and
Niger to seek shelter as the Nigerian government does to seem bothered
about the plight of its own citizens;
thousands have been literally
butchered; others have fled to parts of
the country that are relatively safe. The
dimensions and magnitude of these problems are under-reported by our
local media. Sadly, Western journalists
have other priorities than Nigeria.
We do not know where or when the next
terrorist attacks will take place. But we
know they will happen because the ideology that drives these attacks has
not been countered. BH has been
tremendously emboldened by President
Jonathan’s apathy. The president has
left us in no doubt that he lacks both
the will power and the competence to defeat BH. If the state of insecurity in
this nation means anything to
Nigerians, then, it is self-evident that
President Jonathan does not deserve
another term in Aso Rock. And those
who think that Lagos and the cities that lie outside the northern geographical
zones are immune from BH terrorism
should think again. This problem
affects us all.
The international community needs to
rally round Nigeria. Jihadist terrorism is a global problem and Nigeria needs all
the help it can get to confront BH
jihadists. If the world does not act now,
it will be forced to do so at a later day
when the threats are even more
difficult to deal with. The time to act is now!
Ijabla Raymond, a medical doctor of
Nigerian heritage writes from the UK.
Contact: Ijabla.Raymond@
facebook.com

Ok. Since u don cast oga GEJ parol finish, who u wan make we support/vote for..

TINUBU AND FASHOLA WRONGLY FOOLING THE NORTH
By Julius Diamond

While there are young, competent, brilliant, strong, and healthy individual/politicians in the North, Tinubu and Fashola the TWO owners of APC have strategically conspired to put forward an Old, Sick, incompetent, Semi-Literate, physically weak and unhealthy Gen Buhari (NORTH)as the APC Presidential Candidate, and using a young, strong, healthy Osibanjo (WEST) as Vice President.
Will a man prefer to use an old horse which may collapse along way to undertake a long journey rather than a young horse? Such is the realities of the political strategy deviced by Tinubu and Fashola, using the platform of APC against the North. Far from verbalizations and criticizations, it is obvious that Gen Buhari with his health condition cannot withstand the heat associated in governing this country (Nigeria)as related to the office of the presidency of this great country. Definately, Obasanjo is not left aside in playing this pilitics of secret conspiracy against PDP and the Northernans, as a co-conspirator to Tinubu's politics of secret conspiracy against APC loyalist, and Fashola's politics of secret conspiracy to betray the North simultaneously. It is indeed a collective effort by these greedy None-Western Representative to rob the NORTHERNERS of their expected opportunity. This I conclude from the fact that it would have been better if Kwankwso was selected as the APC Presidential flag bearer. Yet, Tinubu and Fashola knowing how young, strong, healthy, articulate, and right thinking Kwankwaso was; Tinubo and Co decided to sideline Kwankwaso only to select a sick candidate(Gen Buhari), a replicate of 2007 "Gen Umaru Musa Yar-Adua"(MHGS R.I.P), so that Gen Buhari may end his life on seat being 73years to rule 8years if elected. Of course with the health conditions of Gen Bohari, it is predictable of what will happen in the near future if elected, and it is clear to the eyes and senses that it is the WESTERNERS (Osibanjo) who will succeed in governance after another human induced ill luck for the NoRTHERNERS.
A good brother to Fashola, a man devoid of evil, and who could not keep this evil secret: the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, has through the media exposed this secret plot, and has urged Nigerians and the Northerners in particular to be very careful with Olusegun Obasanjo, Fashola, and Tinubu in relation to next month's presidential election. According to Fayose , in qoute "Obasanjo wants to make an old man like Gen. Buhari,the president of Nigeria so that he will die in office like late Musa Yar’Adua". He said what happened to Yar Adua will repeat itself if Gen. Buhari wins the presidential election. I COULD SAY A VERY BIG THANK-U TO FAYOSE, AND ALSO, I THANK GOD THAT THE NORTHERNERS HAVE RESOLVE NOT TO LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN. THIS IS WHY THEY HAVE RESOLVE NOT TO VOTE GEN BUHARI IN FEB 14, 2015.
Just as Fayose has reasoned. I have also thought as well on how baffling Obasanjo has created an artificial and unreasonable misunderstanding with, Kwankwaso, Atiku, and President Jonathan, and developing a media relationship between APC leader, Buhari, Bola Tinubu and Fashola. How goody is this media friendship? to what expectation is this media friendship? can a lion and a goat live together?
We can recall that it was the idea and personal decision of Obasanjo to put forward Umar Yar ‘Adua as the president knowing the man’s state of health and as he had expected, the man died in office. He was the one who said President Goodluck Jonathan was the best for Nigeria and that without him there would be no Nigeria.”
“The question people should ask former President Obasanjo is what has gone wrong between now and then? Why does he hate the North so much? Why is He so against President Jonathan? Is it because President Jonathan has refused to see him(Obasanjo) as a godfather? However, knowing this, any Nigerian and Northernans who wish good for Nigeria will not allow BUHARI & OSIBANJO to be elected. This is for the futuristic benefit of both the Northerners and Nigeria as a whole. After 2019, the next political dispensation will be for the North. This, Nigerians have not argured. For this reason, it is wise for the NORTH to VOTE president Jonathan so he will complete his term and after which the North will be allowed to present credible candidate in 2019, not an old horse being put forward."

As an Advocate for the progress of Nigeria. I call on all Nigerians and the Northernans in particular who wish well for Nigeria to see fact from this exposition and to take on the right step.

Show ur love to Nigeria, Vote GoodLuck Ebele Jonathan, Com 14 February, 2015.

Long Live Nigeria
Long Live the Nothernans
Long Live PDP
Long Live GEJ
Short Live APC

I can't just wait to vote dis man called jonathan out of office com feb14 2015

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