Article written by Joseph Yobo.

For the sake of clarity, I must first point out that while all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, it is all work and no exercise that makes him an unfit one. From all indications earlier in the week, Friday 7th March, 2015 was meant to be a busy day for members and supporters of both the ruling People's Democratic Party and the opposition All Progressives' Congress.

In Abuja, there was a scheduled fitness march to keep the blood of Nigerian sports people along with party hierarchy and President Goodluck Jonathan, buzzing. An equivalent march in Lagos, billed initially to be a million-man march of opposition members was to hold in Lagos from Maryland to Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.




As early as 8am, I and several other supporters of the President walked with him from Aso Rock to Eagle Square where we also jogged around. Some of the pictures from the walk have been swarming social media; one in particular stood out. It was that of President Jonathan doing the hop in an aerobics session. Pictures of him working out in the gym have surfaced from time to time and this further proved that the man is mentally and physically fit to rule Nigeria. Immediately after the rally ended at 11am, he went back to the State House, freshened up and flew to pay courtesy visits to the Ooni of Ife and Owa Obokun of Ijesaland and attend rallies in their domain.

Inline images 2Enter General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd). After he and his party played hide-and-seek with Nigerians over his whereabouts, the man returned to the country and was conspicuously missing from a march that was the perfect opportunity for him and the top party brass to reassure their supporters that he was fit as a fiddle. The job of president of a country with over 170 million people is a a tasking one and surely it would have been convenient for a man who insists he was on a two-week rest to have at least walked with the people who will vote him for say one-thirds of the march? The party chieftains including Bola Tinubu and even its vice-presidential candidate, Prof. Yomi Osinbajo were present at the final stop, so why was the arrowhead of the campaign missing in action?

Why is the opposition shoving in our youthful faces, a grandfather who needs rest, an elder statesman who ought to be chilling in his country home in times like this? Assuming their candidate wins the presidential elections, will he disappear periodically too?

Nigerians must take a stand and decide to do what is right. Seeing is believing; we cannot saddle ourselves with a President whose health challenges will affect his output in office. General Buhari was once a gallant soldier but no one can cheat nature.

I, who by the grace of God and the support of sports loving President Jonathan led the Super Eagles to historic victory in the Africa Cup of Nations after a trophy less 19 years and having played football at the highest levels can boldly affirm that the secret to the game is in endurance, and the events of recent times point us to the fact that Nigeria needs just the man who stood and can last. The Game is on.

Joseph Yobo, was Captain of Nigeria's Super Eagles and 2014 AFCON Winner



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crownprince102:
Lol...... Yobo, are you saying we should vote any man that can Jump up or the strongest candidate?


Organise a marathon race for GEJ and Martin Onovo and see who will win. With your article, you are actually saying Martin Onovo should be the next president of nigeria because he is the strongest and the youngest of all candidates.


If Jonathan was the reason we won AFCON, he must also be the reason we failed to qualify twice under his administration. The AFCON seems to thrill you because it was the only trophy you won in your illustrious career both in club and country football, no forgeting the fact that you were on bench at the tournament. Keshi only use you at the dying minutes, such two minutes from normal time.


Tell me you are doing this for free and I will seize to support Buhari. It's no sin getting your share of the 21 Billion. You don't even stay in Nigeria, you don't know what the citizens go through.


Do me a favour by joining a Nigerian premier league club since you 've been rejected in europe and see how difficult life is in the country.


You played in England, ask your self why Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Stephen Gerrard, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, etc, stay put in their homeland and you, Joseph Yobo couldn't stay back in your own country and play proffessional football.


Well sha, Their is no sin in the CLUBLESS supporting the CLUELESS.
Weldone Yobo, atleast it will earn you some penny for the time being.


#Sai Buhari

crownprince102:
Lol...... Yobo, are you saying we should vote any man that can Jump up or the strongest candidate?

seunfly:
This Yobo is senseless, how many kilometer can all the great leaders that transformed the countries where you played your professional football can run when they transformed those countries to that extent the u could not stay in you fathers land to express your talent.


Unfortunately some senseless suppoeters will jump at this and happy this trash you spill here.


It is through that having money and a beautiful wife does not translate to common sense.

crownprince102:
Lol...... Yobo, are you saying we should vote any man that can Jump up or the strongest candidate?


Organise a marathon race for GEJ and Martin Onovo and see who will win. With your article, you are actually saying Martin Onovo should be the next president of nigeria because he is the strongest and the youngest of all candidates.


If Jonathan was the reason we won AFCON, he must also be the reason we failed to qualify twice under his administration. The AFCON seems to thrill you because it was the only trophy you won in your illustrious career both in club and country football, no forgeting the fact that you were on bench at the tournament. Keshi only use you at the dying minutes, such two minutes from normal time.


Tell me you are doing this for free and I will seize to support Buhari. It's no sin getting your share of the 21 Billion. You don't even stay in Nigeria, you don't know what the citizens go through.


Do me a favour by joining a Nigerian premier league club since you 've been rejected in europe and see how difficult life is in the country.


You played in England, ask your self why Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Stephen Gerrard, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, etc, stay put in their homeland and you, Joseph Yobo couldn't stay back in your own country and play proffessional football.


Well sha, Their is no sin in the CLUBLESS supporting the CLUELESS.
Weldone Yobo, atleast it will earn you some penny for the time being.


#Sai Buhari

omokoladele:
Dumb ass Dude saying trash.

U fit well well nai u dey clubless?

Better face ur football and leave Politics for better people wey sabi

owobokiri:


Very peurile and typical argeument from a fervent disciples of the Angry Peoples Community! Is jonathan running against martins Onovo or against one epileptic buhari? This is 2015 and not 1983. An octagenerian with questionable health and shaky intellectual resjme is the worst candidate for the post of the presidency. With all his genocidal pazt and coup making pedigree, this frail upstart is a massive emberassment to Nigerias democracy. He wouldn't have been this relevant, if not for rampaging tribalists like the quoted poster above who in their clannish stupor are desperate to make a point.

Yobo was lucid and coherent. He willingly resigned from the captainship of the super Eagles in order to give the younger ones the chance to blossom. He didnt stick his butt in there like some indinspensable God sent messaich egg head whose oversized ego needs to be periodically massaged every 4 years so our dogs and baboons won't go go extinct! A frail granpa should be at home taking care of his grand children.., teaching them how to count 1, 2, 3 and A, B, C. . e shouldn't be the one always caught dodging debates, forging certificates while being smuggled into the country at the wee hours of the night by a highly corrupt/compromised bunch of over-reaching bunch of mercenery politicians, some of them younger than his children.

Again, it is not jonathans fault that Maradona and Eusobio didnt ply their trade in Nigeria. If your guardian angel Buhari lifted a finger to put in plac strong modern administrative set up within the sports ministry, rather than flooding officialdom with tribal rabid dogs, maybe the Nigerian league wlwill stand a chance of comparing healthily with say that of South Africa today. Yobo went to Europe for the same reasons players from china, Brazil, argentina and South Africa go to Europe.

Never again shall we allow viibrant coupist s with thier dirty genocidal pedigree to torpedo the course of our democratic evolution. Never again. . Politics is not magic. . Your lanky alfa should go and rest. .