For weeks, I had resisted the
urge to write. So many
landmark events have
transpired in the last few
weeks and despite the
persistent prompting by two
editors to put my opinion into
words, I chose not to. I just
wanted to clear my mind for
the task ahead.
However, it took me less than
a minute to make up my mind
to pen some words after
reading the unbelievable
speech our president,
Goodluck Jonathan, gave on
the first day of the year. Now,
Mr. President has a long
repertoire of terrible choice of
words. As a matter of fact,
you could make a tidy bundle
if you wrote a book
exclusively on GEJisms. But,
this one takes the cake, the
baker and the bakery.
The question to Nigeria’s
biggest challenge is the easiest
to answer. Even the mute,
deaf and blind know
corruption is at the root of
our problems. However, on
January 1st 2015, exactly 1670
days after he was first sworn
in as the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
following the death of Umaru
Musa Yar’Adua, Mr. Jonathan
confirmed to the world he had
ignored fighting corruption all
along.
Hear him:
“There are two main
problems confronting us as a
nation: The issue of insecurity
in the North, where we have
the Boko Haram terrorists and
in the South where we have
commercial kidnapping. The
next thing that people worry
about after security is the
issue of corruption.
“We are coming out with
programmes and plans to
clean up. These are things
that you don’t just use a
magical wand to wave off,
otherwise even before I
became the President, there
wouldn’t have been
corruption in Nigeria.”
I have heard people say the
damnest things but this one
shook me to my core. Here is
the man elected into power
admitting to the whole world
that he had wasted the
mandate given to him doing
nothing to stem the tide of
looting in the country. And,
he said it with a smile. He
said it in the most laid back,
off-handed manner you could
imagine. Like he was telling
his drinking buddies why a
fly was in his beer.
Imagine your security guard
proudly telling you how he
went out to party every night
you left the house in his care
and says he plans to get to
protecting the home pretty
soon. Or your driver
admitting he had always
driven your children to school
while drunk and high but had
plans to kick the habit in the
near future. Let that thought
sink in.
Never in my life has someone
admitted his own failure so
glaringly without even a little
sense of irony or
responsibility. Never has a
leader soaked his own feet in
soup and then go on to suck
firmly on it.
Was Mr. President drunk
when said those words?
Clearly, no one can say those
words while in complete
control of their senses. I
refuse to believe the man
trusted with leading the most
populated country in Africa
admitted deliberately ignoring
arguably the most important
part of his job and allowing
the wolves to run wild over
our collective till.
Did Mr. President know that,
standing on that stage, he was
admitting his inability to fight
the Subsidy Thieves that
fleeced Nigeria of trillions?
That he was admitting that all
the work the anti-fraud
agencies have done in the last
five years have been merely
cosmetic?
That he was admitting that
every word the opposition
had said about his reluctance
to fight corruption was a fact?
Frankly, despite the modest
but largely incomplete
physical work President
Jonathan has put in, I can’t
wait to see his back. I – and I
speak for about 80% of
Nigerians here-–am
embarrassed to have Goodluck
Jonathan as president.
Gbenga Olorunpomi is on
Twitter as @GbengaGold[img]For weeks, I had resisted the
urge to write. So many
landmark events have
transpired in the last few
weeks and despite the
persistent prompting by two
editors to put my opinion into
words, I chose not to. I just
wanted to clear my mind for
the task ahead.
However, it took me less than
a minute to make up my mind
to pen some words after
reading the unbelievable
speech our president,
Goodluck Jonathan, gave on
the first day of the year. Now,
Mr. President has a long
repertoire of terrible choice of
words. As a matter of fact,
you could make a tidy bundle
if you wrote a book
exclusively on GEJisms. But,
this one takes the cake, the
baker and the bakery.
The question to Nigeria’s
biggest challenge is the easiest
to answer. Even the mute,
deaf and blind know
corruption is at the root of
our problems. However, on
January 1st 2015, exactly 1670
days after he was first sworn
in as the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
following the death of Umaru
Musa Yar’Adua, Mr. Jonathan
confirmed to the world he had
ignored fighting corruption all
along.
Hear him:
“There are two main
problems confronting us as a
nation: The issue of insecurity
in the North, where we have
the Boko Haram terrorists and
in the South where we have
commercial kidnapping. The
next thing that people worry
about after security is the
issue of corruption.
“We are coming out with
programmes and plans to
clean up. These are things
that you don’t just use a
magical wand to wave off,
otherwise even before I
became the President, there
wouldn’t have been
corruption in Nigeria.”
I have heard people say the
damnest things but this one
shook me to my core. Here is
the man elected into power
admitting to the whole world
that he had wasted the
mandate given to him doing
nothing to stem the tide of
looting in the country. And,
he said it with a smile. He
said it in the most laid back,
off-handed manner you could
imagine. Like he was telling
his drinking buddies why a
fly was in his beer.
Imagine your security guard
proudly telling you how he
went out to party every night
you left the house in his care
and says he plans to get to
protecting the home pretty
soon. Or your driver
admitting he had always
driven your children to school
while drunk and high but had
plans to kick the habit in the
near future. Let that thought
sink in.
Never in my life has someone
admitted his own failure so
glaringly without even a little
sense of irony or
responsibility. Never has a
leader soaked his own feet in
soup and then go on to suck
firmly on it.
Was Mr. President drunk
when said those words?
Clearly, no one can say those
words while in complete
control of their senses. I
refuse to believe the man
trusted with leading the most
populated country in Africa
admitted deliberately ignoring
arguably the most important
part of his job and allowing
the wolves to run wild over
our collective till.
Did Mr. President know that,
standing on that stage, he was
admitting his inability to fight
the Subsidy Thieves that
fleeced Nigeria of trillions?
That he was admitting that all
the work the anti-fraud
agencies have done in the last
five years have been merely
cosmetic?
That he was admitting that
every word the opposition
had said about his reluctance
to fight corruption was a fact?
Frankly, despite the modest
but largely incomplete
physical work President
Jonathan has put in, I can’t
wait to see his back. I – and I
speak for about 80% of
Nigerians here-–am
embarrassed to have Goodluck
Jonathan as president.
Gbenga Olorunpomi is on
Twitter as @GbengaGold[/img]For weeks, I had resisted the
urge to write. So many
landmark events have
transpired in the last few
weeks and despite the
persistent prompting by two
editors to put my opinion into
words, I chose not to. I just
wanted to clear my mind for
the task ahead.
However, it took me less than
a minute to make up my mind
to pen some words after
reading the unbelievable
speech our president,
Goodluck Jonathan, gave on
the first day of the year. Now,
Mr. President has a long
repertoire of terrible choice of
words. As a matter of fact,
you could make a tidy bundle
if you wrote a book
exclusively on GEJisms. But,
this one takes the cake, the
baker and the bakery.
The question to Nigeria’s
biggest challenge is the easiest
to answer. Even the mute,
deaf and blind know
corruption is at the root of
our problems. However, on
January 1st 2015, exactly 1670
days after he was first sworn
in as the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
following the death of Umaru
Musa Yar’Adua, Mr. Jonathan
confirmed to the world he had
ignored fighting corruption all
along.
Hear him:
“There are two main
problems confronting us as a
nation: The issue of insecurity
in the North, where we have
the Boko Haram terrorists and
in the South where we have
commercial kidnapping. The
next thing that people worry
about after security is the
issue of corruption.
“We are coming out with
programmes and plans to
clean up. These are things
that you don’t just use a
magical wand to wave off,
otherwise even before I
became the President, there
wouldn’t have been
corruption in Nigeria.”
I have heard people say the
damnest things but this one
shook me to my core. Here is
the man elected into power
admitting to the whole world
that he had wasted the
mandate given to him doing
nothing to stem the tide of
looting in the country. And,
he said it with a smile. He
said it in the most laid back,
off-handed manner you could
imagine. Like he was telling
his drinking buddies why a
fly was in his beer.
Imagine your security guard
proudly telling you how he
went out to party every night
you left the house in his care
and says he plans to get to
protecting the home pretty
soon. Or your driver
admitting he had always
driven your children to school
while drunk and high but had
plans to kick the habit in the
near future. Let that thought
sink in.
Never in my life has someone
admitted his own failure so
glaringly without even a little
sense of irony or
responsibility. Never has a
leader soaked his own feet in
soup and then go on to suck
firmly on it.
Was Mr. President drunk
when said those words?
Clearly, no one can say those
words while in complete
control of their senses. I
refuse to believe the man
trusted with leading the most
populated country in Africa
admitted deliberately ignoring
arguably the most important
part of his job and allowing
the wolves to run wild over
our collective till.
Did Mr. President know that,
standing on that stage, he was
admitting his inability to fight
the Subsidy Thieves that
fleeced Nigeria of trillions?
That he was admitting that all
the work the anti-fraud
agencies have done in the last
five years have been merely
cosmetic?
That he was admitting that
every word the opposition
had said about his reluctance
to fight corruption was a fact?
Frankly, despite the modest
but largely incomplete
physical work President
Jonathan has put in, I can’t
wait to see his back. I – and I
speak for about 80% of
Nigerians here-–am
embarrassed to have Goodluck
Jonathan as president.
Gbenga Olorunpomi is on
Twitter as @GbengaGold

I'm not a politician neither am I affiliated to any
political party. I'm a free thinker and as it stands now
I don't know who to vote in the coming election. Coz I'm already fed fed up
this morning a friend of mine sent this to my inbox
and I thought I should share it with u guys cos
information is power.
He wrote: Could APC be the Nigerian version of the Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood Party? Check out this: 1. Party
Leader - North: Gen Muhammadu Buhari (Muslim). 2.
Party Leader - South: Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Muslim).
3. National Chairman: Abdulkareem Bisi Akande
(Muslim). 4. Deputy National Chairman: Aminu Bello Masari (Muslim). 5. National Secretary: Tijjani Musa
Tumsah (Muslim). 6. Deputy National Secretary:
Nasir El-Rufai (Muslim). 7. National Publicity
Secretary: Lai Muhammad (Muslim). 8. National
Treasurer: Sadiya Umar Faruq (Muslim) 9. National
Financial Secretary: Alhaji Shaibu Musa (Muslim). 10. National Youth Leader: Abubakar Lado (Muslim). 11.
National Legal Adviser: Muiz Banie (Muslim). 12.
National Deputy Auditor: Bala Jibrin (Muslim). 13.
National Women Leader: Sharia Ikeazor (Muslim
convert). 14. EX-officio Member: Muniru Muse
(Muslim). 15. EX-officio Member: Alhaji Yemi Sanusi (Muslim). Yet, these cabal of islamic crusader want
us to believe they are PROGRESSIVES and that
APC is a national party. They brought Osinbajo (a
christian) as Buhari's running-mate to fool us. I think
APC has a hidden religious agenda. The APC
presidential aspirants and flag-bearer "Buhari" after the last election said they will make nigeria
ungovernable for Goodluck Jonathan, and we've seen
the results in the last 4yrs. How long shall the fear of
wicked men in arms and matchets decides who
governs us? Your vote is your power to get the good
g

You're entitled to your opinion.

But you're wrong on "80% of Nigerians"

Just making noise. Who cares if you vote for Jonathan or not. One man one vote.

Well said!