In Defense Of Goodluck Jonathan:
First, let me make one thing very
clear here. I did not support GEJ
during the last election, not because
he was not better than the other bad
news from daura but because despite
his very good record as a democrat
and a gentleman president plus his
excellent economic achievements, I
still considered him too weak and not
competent enough to deserve my vote
especially after the insensitive
manner he treated the immigration
job tragedy. I was at the national
stadium. I saw my friend die in the
stampede. When Jonathan refused to
sack anybody for the job scam and
the avoidable deaths that followed, I
immediately knew the gods and the
spirit of my dead friend would not
forgive me if I gave this man my vote
as insignificant as it was. I never
made any post nor comment in support
of GEJ during the electioneering
campaign. But in all these, I never
lost sight of the fact that mentioning
the name GEJ and Buhari in the same
sentence with a view to comparing
them remained a moral tragedy.
This article is borne out of a sincere
desire not to sit back and watch
morally bankrupt men twist history
and destroy an innocent man with
devilish lies. Having said these, let
me come to the reason why I'm here.
Undiluted, unadulterated, crude hate
for Jonathan as a person and the
desire to ensure his name is never
associated with anything good is one
thing every APC member and Buhari
supporter have in common.
This common characteristic is so
strong...too strong, even! Matter of
fact, it is stronger than the feeling
of kinship that bind marijuana
smokers together. If you are 'a
ganja man', you will understand my
drift here.
Whether they belong to the Saraki
faction, Tinubu faction, Buhari
faction or even the latter day wailer-
wanna-be faction, this common trait
is the power house of all their
activities the exact way the
mitochondria is the powerhouse of
the cell.
When you hear the APC tell you that
the 16 years of PDP government is
the cause of all our woes today, it is
not the PDP they want you to blame,
it is not even Obasanjo who ruled for
8 solid years and is now the APC
navigator-in-chief, it is Jonathan
who was in power just for 5 years
they want to incite you against.
If you don't believe me, ask yourself
how come over 70% of all those
holding public offices under APC today
are ex-members of the PDP? Check
all the ministers, governors, NASS
members etc, over 70% of them left
the PDP and were welcomed into the
APC with an open arm and a baptism
which washed away their sins and
turned them to saints.
If the APC strongly believe the PDP
destroyed Nigeria, why welcome the
same people into their party? Does
this make any sense? Or is it just
the acronym "PDP" that is the
problem? Their target is GEJ.
If not hate, why would anyone claim
that Jonathan ran the most corrupt
government in Nigeria history?? Do
these guys think we all have
amnesia?? So if we keep quite so as
not to be accused of being paid by
Jonathan or the PDP, these children
of 'Liar Muhammed' will just alter
history before our very eyes? So we
have suddenly forgotten Abacha so
soon?? Have we forgotten that all
the monies Dasuki is accused of
sharing is not up to half of the very
first set of stolen money recovered
as Abacha loot, the same Abacha-
thieving-government their mini god;
Buhari not only served under but
vehemently defended and even swore
by the seven gods that he didn't steal
a dime. This is even as billions of
dollars (not naira) of the loot has
continued to be returned to Nigeria.
Have we suddenly forgotten the
OBJs, the IBBs, the Abdulsalamis, the
Buharis, the Gowons etc who ran
under the military system of govt
where there is no form of
transparency? Or, they just selected
only Jonathan's government for probe
and concluded it was the most
corrupt? Which one did they compare
it with or has it not occurred to them
that for a thing to be adjudged the
worst, it must have been compared
with other things??
These other men including the late
Sani Abacha ruled the country with
decree and looted as they wanted but
it is Jonathan who was in power for
just 5 years that is the biggest thief
in Nigeria history Chai! Little
wonder, these lying liars were able to
twist history and sell the calamity
called Buhari to Nigerians.
First, they lied that Jonathan bought
no single weapon for the military to
prosecute the war on terror. When
this lie could no longer stick, they
amended it and claimed he actually
bought some weapon but that they
were substandard and were all
backfiring and killing soldiers who
were supposed to use them to fight
boko haram. When Nigerians queried
which weapon the APC government
used to achieve 'technical victory'
over boko haram since the ones
acquired by Jonathan were all fake,
the lying minister of information; Lai
Muhammed contradicted himself again
by admitting the Jonathan govt
bought some good military hardware
but that the prices were hugely
exaggerated. Na one government dey
churn out all those wicked puerile lies
ooo.
Meanwhile, we all saw the newly
acquired military hardwares the GEJ
administration secured from Russian
after the U.S and her allies refused
selling us weapon as a result of
petition written to them in which El-
rufai, Murtala Nyako (ex-Adamawa
state governor) and some Northern/
APC leaders accused GEJ of using the
military to reduce the population of
the North under the guise of fighting
Boko haram. And we all witnessed as
our soldiers used those weapons to
liberate all our territories held by
boko haram and sent the terrorists
disguising as females to escape their
superior firepower. Nigerians were
all hash-tagging # NeverAgain as the
military were combing the Sambisa
forest in search of the boko haram
boys.
All these happened a little over a
year ago. We could't have forgotten,
could we?
We have also not forgotten that the
boko boys were able to regroup
immediately Buhari came to power
because he (Buhari) dismantled all
military roadblocks set up purposely
to checkmate their activities. We are
not unaware of the fact that the
same people hellbent on blaming
Jonathan even for the 1914
almagamation hailed that ill-adviced
move.
Another lie they've come up with is
that GEJ caused our current economic
woes by allowing those who served
under him loot the treasury.
This is a very big lie and here is why:
Corruption alone don't kill an
economy. Else, our economy would
have died a long time ago because
they've always been corruption in the
system right from the very first
post-independence govt of Nnamdi
Azikiwe and Tafawa Balewa. Leaders
of every military coup have always
cited corruption as the reason for
their intervention. There was
systemic corruption during GEJ's era
just as there has always been
systemic corruption but the big
question is:
How come the only two times Nigeria
has gone into recession was in1984
when Muhammadu Buhari was in power
and 2016 when the same Muhammadu
Buhari is in power again?? Despite all
the looting in Abacha govt, Nigeria
didn't go into recession. Despite all
the looting by all the other military
rulers, we didn't go into recession.
The only two times was 3 decades ago
and now.....all under thesame
Buhari. Haba! Even if you are
incapable of any sort of intelligent
reasoning, you should be able to
figure this one out at least
Let's even look at the two reasons
advanced by IMF as the reasons for
the recession:
1) Plunging oil revenue as a result of
the crises in the Niger Delta which is
the location of the oil the economy is
heavily depended on
2) Weakened investors confidence in
the country/economy.
It is on record that barely two weeks
after being sworn in as president,
Buhari resurrected the Niger Delta
crises by bombing the region, cutting
the amnesty budget drastically and
terminating the oil pipeline given to
the ex-militants. The rush with which
those actions were taken tend to
suggest that public interest was the
last thing on the president's mind. In
addition, Buhari went to America and
made it clear he would discriminate
against those who didn't give him 97%
of their vote.
Whatever lies we chose to believe, we
must not forget that these reckless
ill-conceived actions of president
Buhari were hugely responsible for
the current crises in the Niger Delta
which has led to plunging oil revenue
blamed as one of the reasons for the
recession.
Weakened investors confidence: When
Buhari took over from GEJ, rather
than hit the ground running, he
abandoned not just the economy but
the entire country. He left the whole
country on autopilot. No government
in place, no minister, no economic
direction. No nothing! For over 6
months. Six whole months! Now tell
me, if you were an investor looking
for where to invest your money,
would you invest in such an
economy?? Would you??
After every election, investors
always wait for the new government
to reel out her economic policy to
enable them consider their chances of
getting favourable return should they
invest in such an economy. These
guys are businessmen, not some
bunch of "money miss road". Buhari
single handedly weakened their
confidence by leaving the entire
country and the economy on autopilot
for over six months.
Is this even debatable??
How exactly did Jonathan cause our
current economic woes??
Even if we must lie to ourselves, how
can we believe our own lies??
He (Buhari) complained he met a
treasury that was almost empty
which is a lie because a man who met
a virtually empty treasury would not
start building a helipad in his
hometown in daura. Such a man would
not start traveling all over the world
in company of governors from his APC
party.
Jonathan had one of the best
economic team. What Buhari have in
place of economic team is a bunch of
sycophants who are mostly lawyers
like the V.P, the national planning
minister, the president's chief of
staff who are all lawyers by
profession and the trade and
investment minister who is a medical
doctor. The economists in the so
called economic advisory team are not
up to 4. Please don't take my word
for it. Do your own research.
The over six months Buhari wasted
before forming his govt, the fact
that he doesn't have a competent
economic team and his reckless action
in bombing the Niger Delta, the
reckless manner he terminated the oil
pipeline contract which was part of
the amnesty deal with the militants
and slashing the amnesty budget
were the main reasons why our
economy went south. Jonathan didn't
cause all these, did he?
Now, let us even assume that
Jonathan looted everything, did he
loot Buhari's brain and his economic
management abilities?? Did he??
Isn't it 15 months already? Is 15
months not long enough for citizens
to start feeling the impact of a
government headed by a man who
spent 12 solid years begging for the
job and promising that he had studied
all our problems and was already to
solve them all if only we would elect
him president
Jonathan is human. He is no saint.
He has his faults but he was a
democrat. As president, he was a
perfect gentleman. When he was
stoned in Bauchi, he ran and was
whisked away by his security details.
None of those Bauchi-stone throwing
boys were even arrested but under
Buhari, an ordinary army chief killed
hundreds of people for blocking his
convoy.
Jonathan conceded defeat to Buhari
in the 2015 election but in 2011 when
he ran under a little known newly
formed CPC, Buhari rejected the
election result and incited his
followers into killing hundreds of
innocent Nigeria including youth
corpers.
Jonathan had plans. He was slow but
he did have plans, some of which we
are already seeing.
The worst enemy Jonathan had was
his media team. They were completely
useless. These hopelessly incompetent
bunch failed to bring most of GEJ
achievements in the open. But those
achievements are still there. Person
Wey Dey Cry Still Dey See Road.
Let me just end this with this free
piece of advice to my APC brethren:
The best way to defend a govt that is
15 months old in office is by reeling
out its achievements, not by blaming
the government before it. Buhari was
not voted in as president just so he
could spend the whole tenure telling
us who and who caused our problem.
We already know those who caused
our problems and Buhari is one of
them. He was voted in because he
promised he had the solutions.
Enough of the blame game and
Jonathan bashing. Even if you must
blame Jonathan, you don't have to lie
against him. It is morally
reprehensible.
Let's I forget, Jonathan paid me
2billion dollars to write this, so don't
bother accusing me of being paid.

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lalasticla mdyn44

Make I park my bus for here now because dis matter na lalasticlala go solve am.

and u expect me to read this novel,,,sorry,i can't

Op, nice write up, good work. If we start counting all of Gej achievements here, Zombies will run amock, but one thing i know for sure is APC and Buhari are Deceitful and for that they will pay dearly when the time come.

ibroh22:
and u expect me to read this novel,,,sorry,i can't

Jonathan's name brought you here abi?, sorry, He is in Zambia right now, you can go and meet him there and .........

Which kind note be this. All i know is jonathan is the worst manager africa had every gotten as a leader. Any state that can not protect its citizen from external and internal forces is a failed state, so nigeria was already at this state before the emergence of buhari. Its due to the lack of erudite on what to do. Buhari only made me understand most nigerians are honourable political begger.

Jirate:
Op, nice write up, good work. If we start counting all of Gej achievements here, Zombies will run amock, but one thing i know for sure is APC and Buhari are Deceitful and for that they will pay dearly when the time come.

which achievement? Just mention one concrete and reasonable achievement. you will be the one to pay dearly by casting your vote for pdp, which will be a waste.........and the wailing continue....till 20godknowswhen...

nicedas:
Which kind note be this. All i know is jonathan is the worst manager africa had every gotten as a leader. Any state that can not protect its citizen from external and internal forces is a failed state, so nigeria was already at this state before the emergence of buhari. Its due to the lack of erudite on what to do. Buhari only made me understand most nigerians are honourable political begger.

Chief Zombie Spotted......stinking horribly.

when i hear the truth, i read all. thanks.

Jirate:


Chief Zombie Spotted......stinking horribly.

plebian, slave boy vs its journey master, i am from the north, pricisely kogi, the zoo is real, its not like the normal nigerian prison cos you can never escape it, so get ready for the journey. Whaling kills faster than ebola virus

U made some good points but as a ganja smoker you failed to remember some and put others in proper perspective

Let me school you yungin

Not only buhari wrecked government but his supporters club Zombies

They were the idiots that caused bubu to believe he could go after the likes of tompolo and come away unscathed

What a feeble minded dummy and dummies

Where is tompolo until tomorrow?

Nigerians deserve their just desserts

Bon appetit

nicedas:
which achievement? Just mention one concrete and reasonable achievement. you will be the one to pay dearly by casting your vote for pdp, which will be a waste.........and the wailing continue....till 20godknowswhen...

When will you guys get tired of lying seeing that the truth is staring you in the face. Haba!
This is becoming too much even God is becoming angry.

Meanwhile you're here hating while International accolades are flowing around him like a river that never runs dry.

OP! From your words,what made you not to vote for GEJ was the same thing that made others vote for APC : SENTIMENT but thank God you know the truth then and it's realities now is what we all are facing.

The fact still remains that this present government is not ready to give up blaming GEJ. Even when they loose in 2019,they will still blame GEJ.

Thanks for saying the truth.

Jonathan excellent ke ?
Democrat ke?
Good economic management ke?
You are obviously suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

I wrote this when Jonathan was in power. I predicted this situation in 2013 with the way Jonathan was mismanaging the country.it is still relevant today


The reason for the looming sack is mismanagement , bad and corrupt leadership .not oil crash.
If jonathan had kept up with obj's savings rate, nigeria would have had close to £150 billion dollars in reserve funds ,to cushion the fall.

If anyone had read this article by Matt taibbi in 2010, they would have seen the crash coming.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405

Many people spend donkey hour jacking pastor Chris books but rarely spend time understanding the world around us.
I can vividly remember warning online about all the unnecessary recruitments in virtually every dysfunctional federal ministry,just for recruitments sakes.
Obasanjo had gotten rid of deadwoods in the ministry like typists who do not know how to use a computer ,7 drivers attached to one single level 15 civil servant ,houseboys and house girls on federal payroll etc.
obj monetised all their fringe benefits to prevent procurement frauds but all that has gone to the scrap heap. ( no more official cars ,official houses ,official spoons , fork has become more cars,houses........)
It is not surprising that they cannot pay salaries.
They are now talking about diversifying but you need capital spending to diversify.
PLS TAKE TIME AND READ THAT ARTICLE.
With a budget only about able to pay salaries where will they get the capital sums needed to buy tractors or build the refineries needed to diversify . like I said before, I wil not be surprised if the world food program would have to come to nigeria in future to feed kwarchiokor strickened folks like they do have in somalia

The picture below aptly describes una case

I have been instructed to give you this form sir.

The way things are going for GEJ, Before 2019, one African nation will demand his services as an adviser to pilot the affairs of its nation.

Guess what, whichever nation is that, will compete with South Africa.

Since independence, I am yet to read any ex-president that has been respected internationally like GEJ. If he was corrupt as some Nigerians were made to believe, these international recognitions will not be so overwhelming.

His administration was not free of corrupt members but he was an economic captain.


@op you should not have just copied and paste without editing. Editing and paragraph spacing would have reduced the size and make it readable.

The demonic afonjas will soon fest on this thread

nicedas:
which achievement? Just mention one concrete and reasonable achievement. you will be the one to pay dearly by casting your vote for pdp, which will be a waste.........and the wailing continue....till 20godknowswhen...

Let me come down to your level:

FOI bill
STA
Largest economy in Africa
Polio Eradication (which is making its way back thanks to APC)
Adesina revived our Agric sector (thanks again to those ruining it)
Dollar was no where near 250 let alone 400
14 Federal universities (unlike Obj and Atiku who built for themselves using government money)
50 alamajiri schools (you could attend any for free it will do you good)
Petrol was less than 90 naira litre
Kerosine was less than 50 naira per litre
etc

medicine after death

evil reign because good people decide to do nothing.

i am happy for this administration as this change chain will reset our brains forever

Op slayed it imust say

Expository... The only 2 times Nigeria has gone into recession was when Buhari was in power (1984 and 2016)

"Buhari was not voted in as president just so he could spend the whole tenure telling us who and who caused our problem.
We already know those who caused our problems and Buhari is one of them. He was voted in because he promised he had the solutions. Enough of the blame game and Jonathan bashing."

woodcook:


Let me come down to your level:

FOI bill
STA
Largest economy in Africa
Polio Eradication (which is making its way back thanks to APC)
Adesina revived our Agric sector (thanks again to those ruining it)
Dollar was no where near 250 let alone 400
14 Federal universities (unlike Obj and Atiku who built for themselves using government money)
50 alamajiri schools (you could attend any for free it will do you good)
Petrol was less than 90 naira litre
Kerosine was less than 50 naira per litre
etc

inflated GDP that relies mostly on it super structure and not the base? The already shut down almajiri school? The provision of dollars to the ibo petty traders to import tooth picks just to give value to the naira? 14 mini secondary school called university? That drunkard left a very fragile economy build on propaganda

For those who hate this post and the holy grail of facts in it, i say to you IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO DIE.......
d transformers in my area are brand new, you can take a shower and come and hug them.........
.....if na charm dem take sweep una brains comot, abeg make una pour Akamu inside, all na the same.
-railway was dead for 18years but woke up
-agriculture purely subsistent for more than 20 years
-Our ports became a beehive of international business activitites
-Young Nigerian were short into relevance and business limelight thru all sorts of grants
-Creative industry got unprecedented boost
.......guess under whose govt? JONATHAN
And some mumu will COME and be GOING to condemn him...........APE-WE-SEE, Changi!

The part that got me laughing was the part where the OP asked if "gej also looted buharis brain"....


I have asked myself that same question uncountable times....

gift01:
Expository... The only 2 times Nigeria has gone into recession was when Buhari was in power (1984 and 2016)

that point was spot on....buhari is so in love with suffering..its really reflecting on his rulership....

nicedas:
inflated GDP that relies mostly on it super structure and not the base? The already shut down almajiri school? The provision of dollars to the ibo petty traders to import tooth picks just to give value to the naira? 14 mini secondary school called university? That drunkard left a very fragile economy build on propaganda

Guy you call 14 fed universities that have generated thousands of employment and education opportunities for people "14 mini secondary schools"?
Honestly,you can't be helped.

gift01:
Expository... The only 2 times Nigeria has gone into recession was when Buhari was in power (1984 and 2016)

...chai na trueoooo!! ...God abeg help usoo!!.even when there was the 2008 global financial crisis around the World that saw some G7 countries going into recession,Nigeria was not affected that much and still managed to stay afloat till the crisis blew over..

..Imagine if buhari and his gang in apc were in power then??...na wa.