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(Daily Trust) – 1. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur
His disastrous tenure as PDP’s national chairman was the
biggest game changer for the PDP from which it might never
recover. Bamanga’s tenure also coincided with the period when
three major opposition parties were consolidating into one mega
opposition party, but the chairman failed to recognise the
emerging threat. Instead, he encouraged the Party Leader to
settle personal scores within the party. It was a cover for
Bamanga to also settle personal scores of his own. He
suspended a state governor for refusing to answer his phone
call; he watched askance as seven governors formed a faction
called ‘the new PDP’ (nPDP), and he didn’t care a hoot when 5
governors jumped ship and joined the APC.

2. Chief Edwin Clark
As soon as Dr. Goodluck Jonathan rose to the presidency, this
Gowon-era Information Minister created for himself a position
hitherto unknown in Nigerian politics, that of the president’s
ethnic godfather. No Yoruba potentate occupied this post during
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s eight year rule and even the feeble
President Umaru Yarádua had no such godfather. Rather than
use his extra-constitutional position to steady the president’s
position, Clark used it to create numerous enemies for Jonathan
through his use of intemperate language and regular assaults at
dissenting folks.

3. Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke
No one gets to sit atop Nigeria’s oil industry without making
many enemies. Mrs Allison Madueke’s beauty, fluent English
and polished manners gained for her a lot of mileage, but the
sleaze in the oil industry ultimately caught up with her. Most
damaging have been the scandalous rip offs in subsidy
payments, the botched attempt to remove the oil subsidy in
2012, Sanusi’s allegation of the missing $20 billion and the
reported N10 billion spent to hire private jets, not to mention the
failure to pass the PIB bill.

4. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The first ever Coordinating Minister of the Economy fancies
herself as an economic wunderkind at par with the German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer or the Japanese Prime Minister
Sato. While most Nigerians thought economic conditions were
harsh, Mrs Okonjo-Iweala bandied figures and said it is among
the best-managed in the world. This sharp discrepancy between
the official claims and people’s feelings did much damage to
the administration’s credibility. Nor was there any preparation
of the public mind for the steep fall in oil prices, the sharp drop
in external reserves and the precipitous decline of the naira.

5. Dame Patience Jonathan
In the last five decades Nigerian First Ladies have often been
mired in one controversy or another. Mrs Patience Jonathan
however stands in a class of her own by making many gaffes
and ill-advised actions that badly affected the public image of
her husband’s regime. Worst of them all was her intervention in
the Chibok girls’ saga and her futile attempts to prove that her
husband’s political enemies orchestrated the whole affair. Her
quarrel with Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of her home state,
also resulted in PDP’s most impactful loss of a political figure.

6. Mujaheed Dokubo Asari
This ex-militant’s coarse manner, intemperate language and his
open threats against whole regions of the country supposedly in
Jonathan’s service did much political damage. Asari was later
joined by more ex-militant leaders to threaten war against the
country should Jonathan lose the election. Their joint threat
greatly antagonised non-partisan opinion all over the country.

7. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
If remarks must be matched to records, this former two-time
ruler has no moral authority to criticise anyone but the wily
Obasanjo re-launched himself back into the reckoning of
Nigerians by spearheading attacks against the Jonathan regime
in the last two years. Many people suspect that his motives are
ungodly. Yet Obasanjo’s devastating attacks against Jonathan,
sometimes through letters, at other times through public
lectures have taken a heavy toll. The Jonathan Presidency never
quite settled on the best way to tackle Obasanjo. Sometimes it
answered his letters; at other times it tried to ignore him and at
still other times it sent seven PDP governors to plead with him
to keep quiet.

8. Governor Godswill Akpabio
The ambitious Akwa Ibom State governor rapidly moved very
close to President Jonathan and soon installed himself as the
president’s top gubernatorial enforcer. At one point he went
about the task wisely, such as when he talked Bamanga into
reversing Governor Aliyu Wamakko’s suspension. Other times
he handled matters with very damaging crudity, such as the 16
is greater than 19 affair, which effectively destroyed the Nigeria
Governors Forum.

9. Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu
When he replaced Bamanga Tukur as PDP’s chairman, the
former Bauchi State governor was proclaimed by his partymen
as the game changer. It turned out that he underestimated the
fall in PDP’s esteem and total political stature. Even though
Mu’azu toured the country trying to lure back members who
defected and though he refrained from creating more problems
by not trying to settle personal scores, the damage had been
done and he was unable to reverse it.

10. Vice President Mohamed Namadi Sambo
Many of Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet members would sit back
and say that the Vice President is to blame for failing to stem
the tide when the country’s single largest voting bloc, the far
North, turned completely against the Jonathan regime. Some
northern PDP governors encouraged this belief in the hope of
replacing Sambo on the ticket. Sambo has nothing of the
political drive and ambition of, say, Atiku Abubakar. His affable
and non-controversial nature did not add to the regime’s
problems but it did not stave off the decline either.

11. NSA and military service chiefs
The top security chiefs have contributed to President Jonathan
and PDP’s problems in only three ways. One was their failure to
tame Boko Haram despite repeated claims that they will do so.
Second was their timing the operation to end Boko Haram once
and for all with the date set for presidential election. The third,
final damage inflicted by the service chiefs was their asking for
the election to be postponed while they attack Boko Haram.

12. Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
The President contributed to his party’s current predicament in
only three ways that I can think of. They are his lack of
adequate knowledge about Nigeria, lack of adequate preparation
before becoming the president of Nigeria and lack of rapid
catching up study when he became the president of Nigeria.
His mistake in choosing Bamanga Tukur; his overreliance on
Ngozi, Diezani and Akpabio; his initial misreading of Boko
Haram as a political plot; his inability to manage Obasanjo,
Edwin Clark, Aminu Tambuwal, nPDP and ex-militants can all
be attributed to those three inadequacies.

How can a match be won with 12 players scoring own goals?

How did they ruin him when he admitted that stealing is not corruption ? The only person that ruined jonathan is himself because he openly supports corruption stealing.

I didn't see the likes of Tony Aneni, Princess Stella Odua, DSP Alamesegha, Mike Ogiadome, et al on thhat list

coldsummer:
[size=18pt][i][color=#990000][b]Doyin Okupe and Ruben Abati?
[quote author=pacesetter939 post=30796717]I didn't see the likes of Tony Aneni, Princess Stella Odua, DSP Alamesegha, Mike Ogiadome, et al on thhat list

Am sure they are on the reserve bench as they where part of the tournament.

Shows he lacks foresight, extremely dull not to be able to review his own performance, dangerously clueless to the extent that he constantly need people to remind him of his job description etc.

The name of d ELECTORATE needs to b on d list cox we also fail on our part to support d president..




.sai buhari

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Its Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for sure,the man destroyed PDP

Teetomania:

[size=15pt]How can a match be won with 12 players scoring own goals?[/size]

I was expecting to see Barcanista on the list.

I was expecting to see Barcanista on the list.

coldsummer:
[size=18pt]Doyin Okupe and Ruben Abati?


This list is sooooo not complete. [/size]

Please include Labaran Maku, the chief propagandist who ended up scamming jonathan and dumping him like a piece of dung. Good governance tour was a big profit to him.

coldsummer:
[size=18pt]Doyin Okupe and Ruben Abati?


This list is sooooo not complete. [/size]

Please include Labaran Maku, the chief propagandist who ended up scamming jonathan and dumping him like a piece of dung. Good governance tour was a big profit to him.

jaybee3:
Shows he lacks foresight, extremely dull not to be able to review his own performance, dangerously clueless to the extent that he constantly need people to remind him of his job description etc.

There's a reason they call him retardden. Just take a honest look at Jonathan and tell me if he's smart.

Largely true. But surely the president's media team should have had a solid place on this list!

The trio of Doyin Okupe, Reno Omokri and Reuben Abati (a little less so) have been the epitome of a massive GOVERNMENT PR DISASTER!!!

As if things weren't bad enough, the president appointed FFK to be his campaign spokesman! Sigh!

Nyesom wike his former education minister should be on that list too

where is okupe, omokri, ffk and recently fayose. not forgotten stella oduah

How about the minister who allegedly organized that Nigerian Immigration Holocaust?
Sadly, the president's team B has better players in Adeshina, Late Amb Ashiru,Prof Onyebuchi,Prof Jega, former IG Abubakar, Mallam Sanusi Lamido,Atedo Peterside,Arunma Oteh, Gov.Dankwabo, Oscar Onyeama,2013 model of Stephen Keshi, and Prince Sijuade (NRC)
The president still made a few good appointments and retained some good hands he inherited from late president Yardua but their impact isn't given enough prominence by the press.

To me the greatest is the dumbo himself, he's the CEO for goodness sake. He command all of them hence he takes the credit or the blame.

op,the topic should have been 12 people that rendered help to send the clueless one back to Otuoke

in labaran maku voice* Jonathan opponents are the opposition but his enemies are in his cabinet

Op you tried but in addition to Jonathan contribution is his inability to cub corruption in his administration and the feelings that Nigerian will accept his theories and concept about corruption. Also surrounding himself with criminals and people of questionable characters is another undo of Jonathan.

What of Amechi

So on point.

OP, these are the people below
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Nobody ruined anything for Jonathan. The man fvcked himself up by himself, simple.

I beg to differ, his greatest undoing are;

1. He thinks and assures himself that all his decisions were or are the best even in retrospect.

2. When things eventually go terribly wrong, he blames everyone else but himself.

WHERE IS DANGOTE, OTEDOLA, PETER OBI N LIKES

Nemo dat quod non habet.

"no one gives what he doesn't have"

When you are good, you attract good friends.

Booked

They said"Too many hands,spoil the cook"

Jonathan ruined his administration himself by recruiting so many greedy fellows in to his cabinet.