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The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Xavier9ja(m): 11:25pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
without much to say, we know that gej tenure was filled with a lot of controversies and these list consist of the disciples that caused these controversies 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? source http://www.naij.com/386135-12-people-who-ruined-pdp-and-jonathans-adminstration.html |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Xavier9ja(m): 11:26pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
I expect d e-warriors to cone in here |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by magaliyu(f): 11:38pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
They said "Too many hands,spoil the cook" 1 Like |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Aphrygian(m): 11:39pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
I doff my hat for the person that wrote this piece,if only the jonathanians can see through there 'he his our son' parole.all what u wrote up there are nothing buh the TRUTH 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Xavier9ja(m): 11:40pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
magaliyu:well said sis.... too many greedy hands for that matter |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Xavier9ja(m): 11:43pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
Aphrygian:d list continue BT these re d twelve..... in 13,14,15 we have fat belly doyin okupe , Reuben abati and reno omokori |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by mrmetoo1: 11:44pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
Great analysis! 1 Like |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by temitemi1(m): 11:49pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
Atiku, tinubu, ameachi, bukola saraki... Hope u know their history ... GEJ till 2019!!! |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by minifuworld: 11:50pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
gud wrk |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by watered(m): 11:51pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
I wish GEJ could read this. I'll comment officially when I wake up |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by KanwuliaJara: 11:52pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
Any 'drug-pussssjha' for that list? Oya KONTINU! |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by baybeeboi: 12:01am On Feb 17, 2015 |
Why do I perceive APC in this write-up? Must have been forged. |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Xavier9ja(m): 12:01am On Feb 17, 2015 |
temitemi1:create their list and let d debate begin |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Realist5: 7:04am On Feb 17, 2015 |
What of Kashamu (the drug barroñ), Shettima (SAS), Fayose (the rogue), Jona Jang etc 1 Like |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Xavier9ja(m): 7:31am On Feb 17, 2015 |
Realist5:the lists Is endless. bt these are d main 12 |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Bifwoli: 7:35am On Feb 17, 2015 |
GEJ is blameless,spotless and squeeky clean like snow. Whoever wrote that satanic piece must be drunk or has smoked GMB brand of ganja. |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Soknown: 7:38am On Feb 17, 2015 |
Xavier9ja:So do you mean there are reserves on the bench ?. Whoo |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Nobody: 7:43am On Feb 17, 2015 |
Well said, he will never make those mistakes in his next life again. |
Re: The 12 Desciples That Damaged GEJ Tenure by Ishilove: 7:50am On Feb 17, 2015 |
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