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Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan is now a confused
man, running helter-skelter in search of a saviour as
he was being haunted by his past. He has shown
that he is a cowardly and spineless politician who
couldn’t take his medicine as a man. Undoubtedly,
Mr. Jonathan is now a completely changed man,
totally different from the posture he had adopted
immediately after the April presidential elections
when he conceded defeat without much ado. The
former President is now afraid of his shadow, trying
desperately to redefine the spirit of the tranquillity
fostered by General Abdusalami Abubakar’s National
Peace Committee during and soon after the 2015
General Elections. By so doing, ex-president
Jonathan was trying not to accept the inevitable.
It was reported that Mr Jonathan who was
holidaying abroad, has suddenly dashed into Abuja
to launch a protest over the determination of
President Muhammadu Buhari to probe how more
than two billion dollars was illegally siphoned from
the Excess Crude Account. It was said that he was
planning to protest over his extreme and
unreasonable suspicion of attempt to blackmail him
and his former cabinet ministers and is utterly
miserable and displeased with the tag of corruption
put on his administration, and worried by the
impending probe of the whereabouts of the four-
billion-dollars taxes and dividends paid by the
Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas company between
2009 and 2014.
Mr. Jonathan and some of his ministers are troubled
by the inquiry into how the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, under their watch
allegedly blew three-point-eight trillion Naira in
three years.
Although ex-president Jonathan has lodged his
protest with former Head of State, General
Abdussalami Abubakar, no meeting was held
between him and President Buhari and it was
doubtful if such meeting could ever take place
considering the fact that the issue may not be open
for discussion because it is an event that may never
occur in the current war against corrup
The General Abdusalam’s National Peace Committee
for 2015 General Elections must by now have
outlived its usefulness and its term of reference did
not cover intercession by a third party or to
dissuade the victor in the presidential elections not
to probe the administration of the vanquished.
Therefore, Mr. Jonathan should not be capitalising
on General Abdussalami to intervene by requesting
President Buhari to stay action on the ongoing probe
of his administration. Already the Buhari
administration has raised a four-man panel to probe
how NNPC spent more than three-trillion Naira in
three years and other related issues.
A former minister in Mr Jonathan’s cabinet, Mrs
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala claimed that ex-President
Jonathan ordered the spending of one billion dollars
out of the two-point-one billion dollars withdrawn
from the Excess Crude Account to oil marketers as
fuel subsidy while another one-billion dollars was
used for Jonathan’s electioneering campaigns. All
the withdrawals were without the prior approval of
the National Economic Council. Against that
backdrop ex-President Jonathan could be culpable
and might likely face charges of corruption and
gross misconduct. He should therefore be advised to
stop unnecessary complaints and prepare his line of
defence when he eventually becomes a very
important guest of the EFCC.
Under ex-President Jonathan the anti-graft agency
appeared to be in deep slumber, but with him in its
kitty it would become alive to its responsibility and
deal with him squarely. Already, three former
governors have been dragged to court and are now
accounting for their financial stewardship. The
arraignment of these top politicians and their cronies
is a welcome development as long as due process
would be observed. In the previous years, under the
administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and
Goodluck Jonathan only lip service was paid to the
fight against corruption and the EFCC was used to
witch hunt perceived political enemies.
Nigerians were worried because governance at the
state level was characterised by corrupt practices
with the governors plotting events that charted the
course of their bankruptcy. While the governors
busied themselves negotiating foreign and domestic
loans they were also quick to ensure that the
monies ended up in private pockets with little left to
cater for the impoverished people.
While majority of Nigerians welcome probes that will
bring culprits to book, cleanse the polity and restore
sanity in all aspects of governance, it is advisable
that thorough investigations are carried out before
charging the governors or other culpable officials to
court. The Buhari administration will not certainly
welcome a situation where people are accused of
corruption without sufficient grounds.
In that connexion, Mr Jonathan, who has phobia
about probes, should know that trial just for the
sake of it, or in order to play to the gallery, definitely
will not feature in the current fight against abuse of
office. Therefore, Mr. Jonathan should stop
expending his energy running from pillar to post
seeking to postpone the inevitable. Nobody is after
him or any of his ministers, but everybody is
determined to join the momentous fight against
corruption; and if he is eventually caught in that
web there is nothing anybody can do to save him.

Posted by Paul


http://www.blueprint.ng/2015/07/21/jonathans-unfounded-fears/

Leave JONA alone o

As he chop the money \

Make he no fear

He go chop the sentencing join

ok

shoro ni yen

Una no go fit change 4 rumour mongering.

Buhari knows that if Jonathan and his close Aides do not go down, nobody will see any tangible anti-corruption fight. Everyone wants to see him behind bars as a confirmation of Buhari's accusation of corruption. But as long as GEJ is being tried in Nigeria and isn't being tried for war crimes, nothing will happen. Anything that brings GEJ down, may likely bring everyone down including the Buhari himself.

Niger Delta, Izon, etc, Ikemba say make i greet una good morning oh.....for the umpteenth time!

The Abachas are there; Babangida is there; Atiku is there; Abdulsalami is there; Tinubu is there; heck....even Amaechi is there, but it turns out all these guys can't be touched as they're all in the running for canonization as Saints! They're all epitomes of moral rectitude and aquired all their billions of dollars through clean and godly avenues!

Jonathan is 'jittery', Jonathan is 'scared', Jonathan is 'afraid', Jonathan is 'trembling', Jonathan is 'begging', Jonathan is 'crawling', Jonathan is 'weeping and gnashing his teeth'.
Nawao!
All for GEJ alone.