Adminisher:
OP, it is not easy to be a PDP supporter. The brains are usually not there when you are young supporters of PDP.
Let me explain things to you slowly. Jonathan was selling oil at $100 a barrel for six years. During this time corruption was very high and he never thought about the future. He very thought about the youths.
Nigeria did not build new refineries, new power plants, new petrochemicals, no steel plants.. nothing. Even the Brass LNG that he told Amechi was the reason for not doing another train of LNG was not done. Brass LNG would have boosted Bayelsa. Let us be honest , the man was "short one"
Now let us expand the context;
1. Saudi Arabia - serious cash flow problems because of low oil price which they caused to destroy Iran. Saudi Arabia is actually one of the cleverest OPEC members they and Dubai and Qatar have billions invested in refineries and Petrochemicals and power plants. Yet they are having serious cash crunch.
2. Venezuela: Things are so bad this country is already digging into gold reserves to finance it's imports. They have run out of foreign currency reserves they are now selling gold.
3. Iran: Iran is having serious problems in spite of their military mis adventures. To tell you how serious, young Iranians went into the streets dancing when the deal with US was signed. They have agreed to stop nuclear weapons for $100bn dollars US money to develop theiron damaged oil industry.
When we say Jonathan's government was very bad we have facts figures and even more information. It was a highly corrupt government led by a very weak man without string core values.
It will take at least two years to undo the damage of d8x years that PDP has done but the only way out is to go back to basics of no tolerance for corruption.

Adminisher:
OP, it is not easy to be a PDP supporter. The brains are usually not there when you are young supporters of PDP.
Let me explain things to you slowly. Jonathan was selling oil at $100 a barrel for six years. During this time corruption was very high and he never thought about the future. He never thought about the youths.
Nigeria did not build new refineries, new power plants, new petrochemicals, no steel plants.. nothing. Even the Brass LNG that he told Amechi was the reason for not doing another train of LNG was not done. Brass LNG would have boosted Bayelsa. Let us be honest , the man was "short one"
Now let us expand the context;
1. Saudi Arabia - serious cash flow problems because of low oil price which they caused to destroy Iran. Saudi Arabia is actually one of the cleverest OPEC members they and Dubai and Qatar have billions invested in refineries and Petrochemicals and power plants. Yet they are having serious cash crunch.
2. Venezuela: Things are so bad this country is already digging into gold reserves to finance it's imports. They have run out of foreign currency reserves they are now selling gold.
3. Iran: Iran is having serious problems in spite of their military mis adventures. To tell you how serious, young Iranians went into the streets dancing when the deal with US was signed. They have agreed to stop nuclear weapons for $100bn dollars US money to develop theiron damaged oil industry.
When we say Jonathan's government was very bad we have facts figures and even more information. It was a highly corrupt government led by a very weak man without string core values.
It will take at least two years to undo the damage of d8x years that PDP has done but the only way out is to go back to basics of no tolerance for corruption.

speedyGonzales:
Jonathan was not the problem, it was the institutions in Nigeria (our institutions are very weak because are system of govenance is failing)... but really if you look at the stats you will notice that the only aspect Jonathan really failed at is Boko Haram. every other area things were moving along slowly but on a steady pace.

liberty300:
I guess th refinery in ph and Co and not refineries. The many power plants built also were not plants @all. Stop deceiving yourself

gab264:
All Migthy Biafra is coming.
The economy of this country is giving the notice now.
Many pple are overlooking this, but am telling u, u guys ain't seen anything.

Adminisher:


This is the pathetic case of the student who failed exams and blamed it on the syllabus.
There is a spectrum of strong leadership and strong institutions. However you cannot build and nurture strong institutions without leadership. Strong Institutions don't just fall from the sky they are made strong by people. I can say for instance that the standard of education at my alma mater is falling but I can also say accurately that it started when a long term principal of the school left, so leaders are important to institutions.
Jonathan swore oath of office , almost every line of the oath involved strengthening institutions. We cannot excuse a situation which he fails at that and we blame institutions.
It is very annoying to hear " things moving along slowly"
Why are you afraid of the truth?. The government was in trouble fiscally from 2013. They were borrowing money internationally and stealing it locally. Obama warned them even then that he was going to change course , stop importing our oil and that we should sit up but when you have people like Jonathan as President you don't expect anything better. Six weeks before electins i suspect tgey must have spent $3bn or more on fighting Boko Haram al9ne which they slloqed to grow because of plain idiocy. Jona himself said he took it with kids gloves.
A few weeks before handover , Nigeria probably lost another $3bn , this time to fuel importers .
Many more things we don't need to rehash .
Why it is important to call out these issues is if you don't bring them up they get to be repeated as mistakes.
I still don't understand the attraction of any forward looking to this hapless Jonathan. Nigerians are sharp hardworking and astute people.

obailala:
Only a dumbass will not see or undertsand how bad Nigeria's income has dwindled due to the crash in oil prices and the virtual absence of savings by the previous government.

speedyGonzales:
Jonathan was not the problem, it was the institutions in Nigeria (our institutions are very weak because are system of govenance is failing)... but really if you look at the stats you will notice that the only aspect Jonathan really failed at is Boko Haram. every other area things were moving along slowly but on a steady pace.

Adminisher:


This is the pathetic case of the student who failed exams and blamed it on the syllabus.
There is a spectrum of strong leadership and strong institutions. However you cannot build and nurture strong institutions without leadership. Strong Institutions don't just fall from the sky they are made strong by people. I can say for instance that the standard of education at my alma mater is falling but I can also say accurately that it started when a long term principal of the school left, so leaders are important to institutions.
Jonathan swore oath of office , almost every line of the oath involved strengthening institutions. We cannot excuse a situation which he fails at that and we blame institutions.
It is very annoying to hear " things moving along slowly"
Why are you afraid of the truth?. The government was in trouble fiscally from 2013. They were borrowing money internationally and stealing it locally. Obama warned them even then that he was going to change course , stop importing our oil and that we should sit up but when you have people like Jonathan as President you don't expect anything better. Six weeks before electins i suspect tgey must have spent $3bn or more on fighting Boko Haram al9ne which they slloqed to grow because of plain idiocy. Jona himself said he took it with kids gloves.
A few weeks before handover , Nigeria probably lost another $3bn , this time to fuel importers .
Many more things we don't need to rehash .
Why it is important to call out these issues is if you don't bring them up they get to be repeated as mistakes.
I still don't understand the attraction of any forward looking to this hapless Jonathan. Nigerians are sharp hardworking and astute people.

speedyGonzales:



the was savings by previous government but it is dwindled didn't mean the was no savings, what did Buhari use to bail out the failing state government, why did the saving dwindle? well, Nigeria as in every other part of the world is coming off a global economic crisis... it affected Europe as well, Have you heard of all the Austerity measures taken by governments in Europe to kick-start their economy? have you heard of the problems in Greece and Spain?. But we barely felt it in Nigeria all through that time in GEJ's tenure...

Adminisher:


Biafra is a joke and a non starter.It is the devil trying to set back the youths of the SE by another twenty years. You guys learn hard. You are being manipulated and shafted badly by people who want to steal your future.

Where is Biafra going to start from and how will it secure itself? Boko Haram is NE of the region...and Boko Haram don't fear bullets . Cameroon is to the east and they want the little oil you have. You guys are already pissing off Ijaw people by claiming Opobo, PortHarcourt.... even wisdom you don't have.
How are you going to manage yourselves without soft skills, diplomacy, strategic planning?. What of patience and giving way to other people gracefully?
Biafra is the only project in this world that I know will FAIL even before it has started. Maybe you should change the ugly name...that might just help.

Adminisher:
OP, it is not easy to be a PDP supporter. The brains are usually not there when you are young supporters of PDP.
Let me explain things to you slowly. Jonathan was selling oil at $100 a barrel for six years. During this time corruption was very high and he never thought about the future. He never thought about the youths.
Nigeria did not build new refineries, new power plants, new petrochemicals, no steel plants.. nothing. Even the Brass LNG that he told Amechi was the reason for not doing another train of LNG was not done. Brass LNG would have boosted Bayelsa. Let us be honest , the man was "short one"
Now let us expand the context;
1. Saudi Arabia - serious cash flow problems because of low oil price which they caused to destroy Iran. Saudi Arabia is actually one of the cleverest OPEC members they and Dubai and Qatar have billions invested in refineries and Petrochemicals and power plants. Yet they are having serious cash crunch.
2. Venezuela: Things are so bad this country is already digging into gold reserves to finance it's imports. They have run out of foreign currency reserves they are now selling gold.
3. Iran: Iran is having serious problems in spite of their military mis adventures. To tell you how serious, young Iranians went into the streets dancing when the deal with US was signed. They have agreed to stop nuclear weapons for $100bn dollars US money to develop theiron damaged oil industry.
When we say Jonathan's government was very bad we have facts figures and even more information. It was a highly corrupt government led by a very weak man without strong core values.
It will take at least two years to undo the damage of d8x years that PDP has done but the only way out is to go back to basics of no tolerance for corruption.

Adminisher:

.Something. Jonathan never started a new power plant project. All the projects were eventually subverted at the operational phase by pipeline vandalization. So much slackness on government they turned Professor Nebo into a liar as all attempts to increase power generation from new plants were sabotaged by pipeline vandals doing it for repair contracts.

Validated:


The problem of Nigeri a and Nigerians is INSINCERITY. Just read yourself again and ponder on your write-up here. Jonathan and Okonjo-Iweala in their wisdom set up the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). The fund was to hold part of the excess crude receipts against the "rainy day". Your leaders now - Amaechi, Fashola, Oshomole and Fayemi went to court to challenge the decision. The case got as far as they wanted. At the end the funds were shared. I attended ICAN conference in 2010 where the four of them were invited by the then ICAN president (Owoyeni from Osun State) to deride the decision on SWF. Infact, Amaechi said "the windfall is for my generation and we must spend it. Let the future generation make their own money and spend it". I wish I could lay my hands on the CD, I would have shared it.

Even if you hate Jonathan, you would not be so blind not to realise that Nigeria is currently on back-pedal. For 6 months this government appears directionless. As far as I am concerned, the only policy decision by Buhari in 6 months was to relocate military high command to Maiduguri. Even at that, nothing has been achieved. Just checklist:

No electricity
No water
No food
No jobs
No fuel
No security
No healthcare
No or very late salaries
No import or export
No budget or template as of today, ending of October 2015
No ministers
No raw materials while industries are closing down
Democracy and rule of law is jaundiced
No FDI while the existing ones are running away

What is the essence of governance? Is it to make noise and hound opposition? If all you see now is to blame Jonathan, then you are a hypocrite. APC should wake up and provide dividend of democracy.

Yes PDP ruled for 16 years, they did not blame their failure on the military that ruled for 17 years before them. Moreover, most of the gladiators of PDP then like (Audu Ogbe and Gemade were PDP chairmen, Amaechi, Bokola, Kwankwaso, George Akume, Wammako, Sylva and were all PDP governors for 8 years, Obasanjo was PDP president for 8 years, Dogara, Ndume, Milaye, Masari and Tambulwa, (former PDP Speakers), Elrufai, Okorocha, etal were all PDP legislators or chieftains before they became "saints" in APC.

Adminisher:


Biafra is a joke and a non starter.It is the devil trying to set back the youths of the SE by another twenty years. You guys learn hard. You are being manipulated and shafted badly by people who want to steal your future.

Where is Biafra going to start from and how will it secure itself? Boko Haram is NE of the region...and Boko Haram don't fear bullets . Cameroon is to the east and they want the little oil you have. You guys are already pissing off Ijaw people by claiming Opobo, PortHarcourt.... even wisdom you don't have.
How are you going to manage yourselves without soft skills, diplomacy, strategic planning?. What of patience and giving way to other people gracefully?
Biafra is the only project in this world that I know will FAIL even before it has started. Maybe you should change the ugly name...that might just help.

ckmayoca:


Is this a memory verse for sunday service? Cos this thread is about something else.

Validated:


The problem of Nigeri a and Nigerians is INSINCERITY. Just read yourself again and ponder on your write-up here. Jonathan and Okonjo-Iweala in their wisdom set up the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). The fund was to hold part of the excess crude receipts against the "rainy day". Your leaders now - Amaechi, Fashola, Oshomole and Fayemi went to court to challenge the decision. The case got as far as they wanted. At the end the funds were shared. I attended ICAN conference in 2010 where the four of them were invited by the then ICAN president (Owoyeni from Osun State) to deride the decision on SWF. Infact, Amaechi said "the windfall is for my generation and we must spend it. Let the future generation make their own money and spend it". I wish I could lay my hands on the CD, I would have shared it.

Even if you hate Jonathan, you would not be so blind not to realise that Nigeria is currently on back-pedal. For 6 months this government appears directionless. As far as I am concerned, the only policy decision by Buhari in 6 months was to relocate military high command to Maiduguri. Even at that, nothing has been achieved. Just checklist:

No electricity
No water
No food
No jobs
No fuel
No security
No healthcare
No or very late salaries
No import or export
No budget or template as of today, ending of October 2015
No ministers
No raw materials while industries are closing down
Democracy and rule of law is jaundiced
No FDI while the existing ones are running away

What is the essence of governance? Is it to make noise and hound opposition? If all you see now is to blame Jonathan, then you are a hypocrite. APC should wake up and provide dividend of democracy.

Yes PDP ruled for 16 years, they did not blame their failure on the military that ruled for 17 years before them. Moreover, most of the gladiators of PDP then like (Audu Ogbe and Gemade were PDP chairmen, Amaechi, Bokola, Kwankwaso, George Akume, Wammako, Sylva and were all PDP governors for 8 years, Obasanjo was PDP president for 8 years, Dogara, Ndume, Milaye, Masari and Tambulwa, (former PDP Speakers), Elrufai, Okorocha, etal were all PDP legislators or chieftains before they became "saints" in APC.

tuniski:
GEJ did well and PDP didn't waste 16yrs. We have been insulated from economic crisis for a long time now,even the catastrophe that would have been banking/financial sector collapse was averted. However, this trial and error buhari/apc lack capacity to manage prosperity albeit as it stands! Those whose only achievement is propaganda and glory stealing aka body language don't get it!!! In the fullness of time,the gains and resilience of the past will be completely reversed by buhari/apc the way he did in 83/85.

It is one thing to claim/have integrity while another to spread prosperity. Buhari has no record of shared prosperity and nigerians will ultimately regret the error of emotional choice of buhari.

Propaganda may win u election but, the arduous task of governance takes brains and well thought out policies and actions. We have been running a deficit budget for some time now. While oil price/revenue is largely to blame cos of our mono economic mainstay. However, only poor intellect will say the previous administration did nothing.

Anyway, buhari/apc magicians now have the stage let them deliver and stop blame game. Everything welfare has worsen since they came on board. Change should mean improvement not blaming and backward looking. Only an incompetent foreman blames his hammer!
Wake up people and stop being zombies to non performance by giving excuses for a govt on a spiral instead of demanding they wake to their responsibilities.
This change is a scam!!!

Okanokan:
Mr President, is not the cause but he should feel free to ask for solutions and Nigerians will oblige him,cos he can't handle it alone. If he wants answers he must carry the people along.

obailala:
Only a dumbass will not see or undertsand how bad Nigeria's income has dwindled due to the crash in oil prices and the virtual absence of savings by the previous government.

tuniski:
GEJ did well and PDP didn't waste 16yrs. We have been insulated from economic crisis for a long time now,even the catastrophe that would have been banking/financial sector collapse was averted. However, this trial and error buhari/apc lack capacity to manage prosperity albeit as it stands! Those whose only achievement is propaganda and glory stealing aka body language don't get it!!! In the fullness of time,the gains and resilience of the past will be completely reversed by buhari/apc the way he did in 83/85.

It is one thing to claim/have integrity while another to spread prosperity. Buhari has no record of shared prosperity and nigerians will ultimately regret the error of emotional choice of buhari.

Propaganda may win u election but, the arduous task of governance takes brains and well thought out policies and actions. We have been running a deficit budget for some time now. While oil price/revenue is largely to blame cos of our mono economic mainstay. However, only poor intellect will say the previous administration did nothing.

Anyway, buhari/apc magicians now have the stage let them deliver and stop blame game. Everything welfare has worsen since they came on board. Change should mean improvement not blaming and backward looking. Only an incompetent foreman blames his hammer!
Wake up people and stop being zombies to non performance by giving excuses for a govt on a spiral instead of demanding they wake to their responsibilities.
This change is a scam!!!