Those who claim Jonathan to be their best, and their hero of democracy, I am taking my time again as usual to dig a little deep into the past.

As a start, here is a statement released on May, 2013 by the then ACN National Publicity Secretary, Alh Lai Mohammed with supporting facts

*Jonathan Administration steadily descending into despotism, ACN Warns*

The Action Congress of Nigeria has said that the President Goodluck Jonathan Administration is steadily descending into despotism.

The ACN, in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, criticised the way the President had been handling his disagreement with a member of his party, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.

The opposition party said the disagreement had portrayed Jonathan as a leader who was willing to sacrifice democratic ideals and principles on the altar of personal ambition and accused the President of using national institutions against perceived enemies.

It said the Jonathan’s administration had a growing inclination to denigrate opposition leaders.

It said, ‘’The Jonathan Administration is anchored on a transformation agenda. But the only transformation that we can see is the one from a democratically-elected President to an Emperor, a despot.’’

‘’If the President is not prevailed upon to change course, Nigeria may be in for another season of anomie, reminiscent of the days of the maximum ruler who took the country to the brink before his sudden demise.’’

The party wondered why national institutions had to be bastardised and compromised just to get at a political enemy.

The ACN stated, ‘’Like we said before, we are not perturbed by what is happening in the Peoples Democratic Party. Our main concern is the fact that the party’s internal crisis is overheating the polity and threatening the country’s hard-won democracy.

“After the theatrics of the aviation agencies and their parent ministry, the EFCC has suddenly realised that the cost of the Rivers State’s plane was inflated by US$10m while the police have sacked the secretariat of Obio-Akpor local government in Rivers.

“The question is: Who gave the orders for the police to sack the secretariat, and in the process take sides with the President in the political disagreement with the governor?

“Which are the other national institutions that will be drafted into this scorched-earth campaign against a perceived non-conformist party member?”

The party said if the President could go to that length against his own party man, he would do worse things against the opposition.

It asked why a democratically-elected President could not be challenged by anyone, whether or not he was a member of his party.

The ACN also expressed concerns at the growing propensity of the administration to stifle the freedom of expression and freedom of the press.

It cited the report by the media rights group, the Committee to Protect Journalists, on the occasion of this year’s World Press Freedom Day on May 3.

According to the ACN, this is a global testimony to the worsening record of the administration as far as press freedom is concerned.

The party stated, ‘’According to the CPJ, Nigeria has become one of the worst countries in the world for deadly, unpunished violence against the press. Nigeria and Somalia are also the only African nations listed on the CPJ’s 2013 impunity ranking.

“Yet, the government has not relented in its attacks against the media: Gestapo-style arrest of Leadership journalists; Fines slammed on Liberty Radio in Kaduna over a listener’s opinion on the so-called Good Governance Tour; Arrest of two journalists of the Kaduna-based Al Mizan newspaper and the ban on a documentary on poverty in Nigeria, just to mention a few.”

It also listed the way the Jonathan administration allegedly went after a former Minister of Education, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili, for claiming that President Jonathan frittered away the $67bn in foreign reserves which she said President Olusegun Obasanjo left behind in 2007.

Another example by the ACN was the fate that befell National Emergency Management Agency spokesman, Yushau Shuaib, for daring to criticise the lopsided appointments in parastatals under the Ministry of Finance..

‘’These anti-democratic measures will worsen as the 2015 elections approach.

Therefore, all lovers of democracy must join us in speaking out against the Jonathan Administration’s descent into despotism,” the ACN said.

I don't get ur point OP

Iin iin, ori ani democracy nyingibo

No a brother to corruption

Lol

He is d father of fools and corruption!