Reno Omokri
The coordinated attack on the integrity and
credibility of former President Goodluck Jonathan
is unfortunate. That the same hastily cooked up
lies were reported simultaneously and almost
word for word by The Nation,
saharareporters.com, premiumtimesng.com and
other known client media of the powers that be
is evidence of the fact that someone powerful is
out to get the former President.
Let us even consider the report in itself. One of
the conjectures used by the propagators of this
lie to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians is
contained in this quote “It has been known in
government circles that Jonathan may be behind
the NDA. The speed with which he denied the
allegation spoke volumes.”
There has never been such a childish and
amateurish justification for sullying the hard
earned peaceful reputation of a man like former
President Jonathan as this.
When in November of 2012 Boko Haram named
Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), now the
current President of Nigeria, as one of its chosen
mediators did he not quickly and immediately
deny and reject the nomination by Boko Haram?
Flowing from the same warped reasoning, his
speedy denial is also evidence that he had a
hand in the terrorism occasioned by the radical
Islamic sect, but we know that is not true
because Boko Haram tried to kill Mr. Buhari.
If it were that Dr. Jonathan did not quickly and
completely deny any links with the Niger Delta
Avengers and any other militants group, then
the sponsors of this wishy washy story would
have changed their tactics and would have said
that his non denial is evidence of his complicity.
Another so called evidence used against the
former President in this sponsored report is the
fact that he called for peace and urged militants
not to declare a republic or contemplate
secession.
In the disturbed thinking of the sponsors of this
report, this is evidence against Dr. Jonathan?
Has it occurred to these demented persons that
this is precisely what a genuine statesman
should do in times like these? In September of
2011, former President Olusegun Obasanjo
visited Maiduguri to see the family of the late
founder of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, in
search of peace. He was applauded for such a
courageous act, as he should have been,
because that is what is expected of statesmen.
In other climes, they give people Nobel Peace
Prizes for prevailing on belligerents to sheathe
their swords, but apparently in Nigeria, it is
evidence of your complicity. Should Nigerians be
surprised then that passers by refuse to help
those attacked by armed robbers or accident
victims on the roadside like the Good Samaritan?
If you do, the government may accuse you of
being the perpetrator instead of the savior.
But these happenings are not surprising to me.
We were all witnesses to the threat to withdraw
the licenses of the two major fertilizer
manufacturers in Nigeria, Notore Petrochemical
and Indorama Eleme Petrochemical, for providing
the materials used by terrorists and militants to
make Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
Now, according to this new tale inserted into the
media, it was Dr. Jonathan who instructed
militants to mine oil installations before the May
29th, 2015 handover date.
Now it is confirmed that liars do not have a good
memory and so must contradict themselves. If
the oil installations were rigged with mines the
question to be asked is are mines made from
fertilizers? Can they not get their story right?
There is a troubling pattern here. It seems that
any time Dr. Jonathan is advancing on the world
stage for his humanitarian and pro-democracy
activities, these fallacious stories appear in the
media to distract him.
When he was on his very successful international
speaking tour earlier in the year, the lie was told
that he was away on exile.
Now that he is back from his second successful
outing as head of the African Union Elections
Observation Mission to Zambia the usual
suspects are up to their old tricks. Who knows
what they would do next when they behold the
great things that Dr. Jonathan is set to do very
shortly?
And to the Minister of Information, Dr. Lai
Mohammed, who was quoted in the said report
as saying “these allegations have refused to go
away and those making the allegations are not
backing out”, let me remind him that there are
allegations against him that have refused to go
away.
In fact, the allegations against Lai Mohammed
come with documentary evidence. We remember
that he was alleged to have begged his
subordinates at the National Broadcasting
Commission (NBC) for a ‘loan’ of N13 million
against civil service rules and against the rules of
public decency.
Have those allegations gone away, Mr. Lai
Mohammed? Should we then accept them as
true? Of course not! Why? Because allegations,
no matter how weighty, are not evidence.
Like I said before, I am ever proud of Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan. Somebody asked me what I
gained by working with Goodluck Jonathan. My
response was that I learnt wisdom. I learnt that It
is better to lose power and gain honor than to
gain power and lose honor. I learnt not to defend
myself when my enemies falsely accuse me. The
same media that gleefully reported their lies will
eventually expose them when they see that the
public is no longer buying their lies.
Finally, I learnt that the best revenge against
those who criticize how you do your job is to step
aside and let them have the job and watch them
underperform in such a manner until they get so
desperate that the only achievements they can
boast of are the ones you achieved during your
so called underperformance. May God bless Dr.
Jonathan for teaching me such wisdom! In Jesus
name.
––Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ
Christian Center in California, author of
Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus
Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno
Omokri
www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/08/20/why-the-desperation-to-rope-in-dr-goodluck-jonathan/

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Reno Omokri
The coordinated attack on the integrity and
credibility of former President Goodluck Jonathan
is unfortunate. That the same hastily cooked up
lies were reported simultaneously and almost
word for word by The Nation,
saharareporters.com, premiumtimesng.com and
other known client media of the powers that be
is evidence of the fact that someone powerful is
out to get the former President.
Let us even consider the report in itself. One of
the conjectures used by the propagators of this
lie to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians is
contained in this quote “It has been known in
government circles that Jonathan may be behind
the NDA. The speed with which he denied the
allegation spoke volumes.”
There has never been such a childish and
amateurish justification for sullying the hard
earned peaceful reputation of a man like former
President Jonathan as this.
When in November of 2012 Boko Haram named
Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), now the
current President of Nigeria, as one of its chosen
mediators did he not quickly and immediately
deny and reject the nomination by Boko Haram?
Flowing from the same warped reasoning, his
speedy denial is also evidence that he had a
hand in the terrorism occasioned by the radical
Islamic sect, but we know that is not true
because Boko Haram tried to kill Mr. Buhari.
If it were that Dr. Jonathan did not quickly and
completely deny any links with the Niger Delta
Avengers and any other militants group, then
the sponsors of this wishy washy story would
have changed their tactics and would have said
that his non denial is evidence of his complicity.
Another so called evidence used against the
former President in this sponsored report is the
fact that he called for peace and urged militants
not to declare a republic or contemplate
secession.
In the disturbed thinking of the sponsors of this
report, this is evidence against Dr. Jonathan?
Has it occurred to these demented persons that
this is precisely what a genuine statesman
should do in times like these? In September of
2011, former President Olusegun Obasanjo
visited Maiduguri to see the family of the late
founder of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, in
search of peace. He was applauded for such a
courageous act, as he should have been,
because that is what is expected of statesmen.
In other climes, they give people Nobel Peace
Prizes for prevailing on belligerents to sheathe
their swords, but apparently in Nigeria, it is
evidence of your complicity. Should Nigerians be
surprised then that passers by refuse to help
those attacked by armed robbers or accident
victims on the roadside like the Good Samaritan?
If you do, the government may accuse you of
being the perpetrator instead of the savior.
But these happenings are not surprising to me.
We were all witnesses to the threat to withdraw
the licenses of the two major fertilizer
manufacturers in Nigeria, Notore Petrochemical
and Indorama Eleme Petrochemical, for providing
the materials used by terrorists and militants to
make Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
Now, according to this new tale inserted into the
media, it was Dr. Jonathan who instructed
militants to mine oil installations before the May
29th, 2015 handover date.
Now it is confirmed that liars do not have a good
memory and so must contradict themselves. If
the oil installations were rigged with mines the
question to be asked is are mines made from
fertilizers? Can they not get their story right?
There is a troubling pattern here. It seems that
any time Dr. Jonathan is advancing on the world
stage for his humanitarian and pro-democracy
activities, these fallacious stories appear in the
media to distract him.
When he was on his very successful international
speaking tour earlier in the year, the lie was told
that he was away on exile.
Now that he is back from his second successful
outing as head of the African Union Elections
Observation Mission to Zambia the usual
suspects are up to their old tricks. Who knows
what they would do next when they behold the
great things that Dr. Jonathan is set to do very
shortly?
And to the Minister of Information, Dr. Lai
Mohammed, who was quoted in the said report
as saying “these allegations have refused to go
away and those making the allegations are not
backing out”, let me remind him that there are
allegations against him that have refused to go
away.
In fact, the allegations against Lai Mohammed
come with documentary evidence. We remember
that he was alleged to have begged his
subordinates at the National Broadcasting
Commission (NBC) for a ‘loan’ of N13 million
against civil service rules and against the rules of
public decency.
Have those allegations gone away, Mr. Lai
Mohammed? Should we then accept them as
true? Of course not! Why? Because allegations,
no matter how weighty, are not evidence.
Like I said before, I am ever proud of Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan. Somebody asked me what I
gained by working with Goodluck Jonathan. My
response was that I learnt wisdom. I learnt that It
is better to lose power and gain honor than to
gain power and lose honor. I learnt not to defend
myself when my enemies falsely accuse me. The
same media that gleefully reported their lies will
eventually expose them when they see that the
public is no longer buying their lies.
Finally, I learnt that the best revenge against
those who criticize how you do your job is to step
aside and let them have the job and watch them
underperform in such a manner until they get so
desperate that the only achievements they can
boast of are the ones you achieved during your
so called underperformance. May God bless Dr.
Jonathan for teaching me such wisdom! In Jesus
name.
––Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ
Christian Center in California, author of
Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus
Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno
Omokri
www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/08/20/why-the-desperation-to-rope-in-dr-goodluck-jonathan/

I agree absolutely.