₦airaland Forum

Given the many revelations that are daily hitting the airwaves on the amount of plundering the Jonathan administration visited on the country, Nigerians should be grateful that former president Jonathan did not win a re-election at the last March presidential election. The country would have probably sunk by now with all the concomitant consequences that would have followed.

Not long ago, a top government official, in a discussion, mentioned that former President Jonathan had confessed to Alhaji Aliko Dangote that if he had won the presidential election, he would not have known where he would find money to pay May salary to workers.
That implies that former President Jonathan knew the deep mess the nation’s economy was at the time he stepped down. And that explains why almost all the states began to groan under the yoke of unpaid workers’ salaries as soon as the Buhari administration took over. It is even said that credit cards from Nigeria are no longer being honoured in many foreign countries. It is that bad!
From the depth of the nation’s vault, the resources of the nation were ploughed into the election in a way that suggests that the nation should cease to exist if the re-election project fails.

It is bad enough that our major source of revenue: crude oil sales, has been witnessing a crashed price regime in the international oil market, but it is worse that even the resources we either had in reserve or generating from other sources were terribly plundered under the Jonathan administration.

In my thinking, many of the people in the top notch of the Jonathan administration, having realized that he is a weak and ineffectual personality, took huge and deep advantage of his person and began to over-appropriate to themselves, the commonwealth of the nation.
Many of those who engaged in the pillaging of the nation’s resources believed that Jonathan would win the election again and then the show will continue, in which case these deep-gutted infractions will never be known nor revisited.

Imagine the rot that took place in NIMASA, an otherwise quiet agency of government where an unqualified person (a Business Administration teacher), Mr Patrick Akpobolokemi, was appointed as Director General of such a professional agency, in breach of the extant rules, not for any other consideration other than being an Ijaw, like Jonathan. He ran the agency with such defiance to established order believing, as it were, that “if the President be for me, who can be against me?” He once caused the redeployment of his supervising Transport minister, Mallam Yusuf Suleiman, who dared to question his actions. In less than three years, the fellow almost brought the agency to its knees. Today, he is being prosecuted for allegedly robbing the place blind with a charge of stealing N3.4 billion hanging on his neck.

The revelations on the arms scandal are mind blowing. With the admission of Chief Raymond Dokpesi of receiving N2.1 billion from the former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), for the purpose of funding campaign publicity of President Jonathan, has shut the mouths of those who said Dasuki was merely being persecuted for being in a PDP-led government.

It is even more instructive that former Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating minister of the Economy (I now wonder what she ever co-ordinated with all the corruption miasma everywhere), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, admitted that she released $322 million Abacha loot to Dasuki, on the three conditions of using a small portion of it for arms procurement and the rest for development project; keeping it as a loan that would be paid back, and giving account of it to the C-in-C. Madam Okonjo-Iweala must be told that all the three so-called conditions are weak and ineffectual. How can she release recovered loot to the NSA and expect it will be used for development project? Which development agency does the NSA head? How, in sincerity, did the Okonjo-Iweala expect the NSA to pay back the money? She may have just inserted those conditions to seem as if she gave a professional advice, which she knew, ab initio, will be completely ignored.
As it turned out, the recovered Abacha loot has been looted by others, as I will not even examine the propriety of using recovered loot to fund the activities of a political party, in this case, the PDP. Gosh, Poor Nigeria!

The spate of sleaze was (and still) a national malaise, and it is not peculiar to just the PDP or their leaders. There are indeed many crooks in the APC as well. The details of which may also come to light the day they are succeed by opposition office holders.

However, I have shuddered at the revelations from the panel of enquiry going in Benue State where the state Accountant General confessed that he was once ordered to bring N100 million cash to the then governor, Mr Gabriel Suswan. The same Suswan after selling the shares of the state amounting to N10 billion was said to have ordered that a part of the money be paid into the state government’s account while another part (N3.1 billion) be paid into the bank account of a private company (Fanflash Resources Ltd).
The owner of the company, Abubkabakar Umar admitted receiving the same amount and explained that he used the sum to buy US Dollars amounting to $15.8 million which he delivered to Suswan, as instructed.
Suswan, a young man and a lawyer, presided over a poor state, which could not even pay the minimum wage of N18,000 per month to its workers.

What shall we say to all these? They are all the machinations of the opposition?
It is even sadder that in all these cases of shocking graft and cesspool of unbridled corruption, there are ever-ready lawyers baying for such cases where they will use silly and unprogressive legal technicalities to thwart the trial and conviction of such accused persons.

Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/if-jonathan-had-won-/227774/

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When e come to jona matter, no body go talk about social media bill.

who posted dis shit? end time lies. jonathan is d best thing dat will ever happen to nigeria #team Goodluck Jonathan

I'M SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THESE MEDIA RANTS,ALLEGATIONS AND TRIALS.
TAKE HIM AND ALL HIS CRONIES INVOLVED AND LET THEM FACE THE FULL WRATH OF THE LAW!
APC IS THE GOVERNMENT IN POWER,STOP ACTING LIKE OPPOSITION OR HAS CAMPAIGN FOR 2019 STARTED?
THE ONLY NEWS I'M INTERESTED IN HENCEFORTH IS COURT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CORRUPTION PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHICH SHOULD BE FAIR AND JUST.

Why is too hard for you people to this man alone? If he had known he should have stay and made this country bloodied a little bit, some of you worth the blood of his political ambition. Since una leave am alone.

It safe to say that the country would have collapsed completely.
Iweala was the coordinator of corruption.
Jonathan was an absentee president and the politician politicians went on a looting binge

No be small thing

Liars! Is that the reason state governors could not pay their salaries?

Jona .and
endtime government

The ATM would have continued dispensing fund meant for arms.

Too badt.

IS BECOMING CERTAIN THAT THE DEVIL WILL LOOK AT GEJ ON THAT DAY AND SAY GEJ YOU ARE VERY WICKED AND DID NOT SHOW MERCY EVEN UNTO YOUR FELLOW HUMAN.
GEJ'S CASE IS MORE LIKE THAT OF A CHILD THAT MY LECTURER TOLD US ABOUT
HE HAD NEVER HELD 5K BEFORE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE GAINED ADMISSION, THE FAMILY RALLY ROUND AND RAISED A HUNDRED THOUSAND FOR HIM TO PAY SCHOOL FEE, BUY TEXTBOOKS, PAY HOUSE RENT AND OTHER THINGS.
HIS PROBLEM STARTED THE MOMENT HE SAW FULL ROASTED CHICKEN HANGING BY THE ENTRANCE OF THE SCHOOL GATE AT MAI SUYA JOINT, AS IF THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH, BEHIND THE MAI SUYA WERE GUYS AND BABES IRONICALLY ROCKING LIFE WHEN IS OBVIOUS THAT LIFE WAS ACTUALLY ROCKING THEM.
THE MOMENT HE SAW THESE HE SAID YES THIS IS WHERE THE WORLD END, HE DECIDED TO TASTE WAT HE NEVER HAD EXPERIENCE OF BEFORE, BUYING THINGS AS IF THEY WERE TO BE RESOLD FOR PROFIT AND "ENJOYING" WITH BABES FORGETTING WHERE HE WAS COMING FROM AND HIS PARENTS ADVICE. AND BEFORE HE KNEW IT HE HAD LOOSE IT ALL.
SEE THE WAY THE SHOELESS MAN OF YESTERDAY WHO HAS NOTHING, WHO WAS HUSTLING IN THE "BUSH" ACCORDING TO D WIFE HAS DECIDE TO MISS USE THE OPPORTUNITY GIVEN TO HIM. GEJ MAY NOT BE ARRESTED OUTRIGHTLY BUT HE WILL HAVE MANY OF HIS INDIRECT ASSETS SEIZED. #NOWWEHAVEAPRESIDENT.

"If GEJ had been reelected, all these talks about billions of dollars would never have come up. Of course. Nigerians would have had no single idea of how a group of people to whom we entrusted the management of our resources bled this country to death. If GEJ had been reelected, probably, Dr. Okonjo Iweala would have remained as Finance Minister who coordinates the disbursement of funds anyhow without taking responsibility for the monitoring of the funds. If GEJ had been reelected, Nigerians would never have known that the office of the National Security Adviser had been turned into a clearing house for the disbursement of campaign funds. If GEJ had been reelected, we would never have found out that a Finance Minister would advise the President to release a humongous sum of money to an office without putting in place a system for monitoring the funds disbursement and then asks that the office accounts directly to the President. If GEJ had been reelected... But thank God he wasn't. God moves in a mysterious way!" ~Rauf Obembe

. . . Dasuki would've been rewarded with the ministry of defence.

APC with their lies. Where did GEJ told dangote, who was there? This country. My advise for APC it to face reality and forget about this blame game. If they have failed, they should come out plain.

GEJ, a former Deputy Governor, later became a Governor. He was a vice-president at a point and later became a president. With all those under his belt and someone was saying he is was inexperienced.
I beg to disagree please. He is simply incompetent. And seemingly clueless.

I stand to be quoted.

My opinion:

If Jonathan had been reelected, he would have devalued the naira further to N300 to 1$.

Would have not survived the present price of crude oil at $35.

He would have cleared the treasury through Okonjo-Dasuki rail line.

He would have been stoned!