Culled from http://www.saharareporters.com/articles/external-contrib/5220-acting-president-goodluck-jonathan-strike-now-before-you-are-struck-a-fatal-blow.html
Written By: Boniface Uba
Thursday, 18 February 2010 21:22

We have been witnesses and spectators to the retrogressive and heartless agenda by some misguided hawks in the out-going president Yar-Adua kitchen cabinet to mortgage the destiny and birthright of over 150 million Nigerians just for red pottage and their bellies at any cost. They are so parochial, myopic in assessment of events that they forgot that power belongs to God and that man proposes but God disposes. They imagine vain things in their hearts and could not even assimilate the grotesque impact of humanitarian crises in a country like Nigeria were there evil plan to come through. Some of their families are relocated outside Nigeria and within a twinkle of an eye they thought they can always evacuate the rest should a disaster occur. The Power above will always hold them in derision.
Here in the UK where I am writing from, many had already consigned themselves to the fact that Nigeria might not solve this cycle of constitutional problem where they deliberately worked against handing over to you as acting president pending the recovery of our president who has been away for medical treatment since Nov 23rd 2009 without handing over. That all changed when despite all the financial inducement and all kind of threats, the national assembly decided to pass a resolution on making you acting president on the 9th February, 2010.

In case you are still worried that Yar-Adua would come back and accuse you of insubordination; events and massive evidence point to the contrary that almost certainly that he might not make it to power again. Even if he does come back to power with Iboris and Turai convincing him to get rid of you as the vice president, posterity will always remember the role you played at such a time like this in stabilizing the polity and saving the life of many Nigerians; sparing Africa and the world at large of unimaginable refugee crises that could have overwhelmed them. That is if you decide to act now and drop this act of “gentleness”. You have demonstrated that since this crises began, showed patience, restraints in many ways especially on how dealt with the most corrupt AGF (Aondoakaa ) the country has ever had. The duty at the moment calls for some roughness in some way.

President George Bush handed over to his Vice president Dick Cheney for about 30 minutes when he was going for hernia operation but these heartless fellows whom their god is their bellies have toyed with the constitution and destiny of Nigeria. However, God in His unending mercies for Nigeria has given you the power you need to stabilize the polity, permanently resolve the constitutional crises and put these hawks where they belong.

Nigeria is a blessed country that has had this rare trait of almost always managing to pull herself back when she gets to a precipice. I am afraid if nothing is done this time around, we may be talking of loss of life including yours as well. So our dear acting President whom fate and God have consistently played part in taking you from height to height politically without any premeditated desire and plan of your own, PLEASE STRIKE NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!

With the maltreatment these hawks have given you as vice president till now; the abortive attempts to prevent implementation of supreme Nigerian constitution; the arrogant disdain of your power even as acting president; the recalcitrant refusal of showing us our president; threatening of some of the ministers billed to visit president Yar-adua in Jeddah despite the failures of many that had gone before; the increasing volatile Nigeria political climate; the questions we are asking is what other evidence are you waiting before you can strike and settle down to business of governing and fighting corruption?

Yesterday, your spokesman Mr. Ima Niboro, said the enemies of Jonathan had voted billions of naira to fight the acting president. He went further “They are wicked and ungodly and their time is up! Never, again, must we allow our nation to be strangulated by a privileged few who will rather fiddle with our common wealth while the nation burns. The truth is that not many a president will have the info you have and adopt the position of watchful waiting. Many would have struck far back. You have nothing to lose but everything to gain our dear acting president! Today a coup d’
etat took place at Niger and you have responded promptly as the president of ECOWAS . All the signs are there our dear Acting President. You have the rare and enviable opportunity to become the best Nigeria president our country has ever had but you have to remove these clogs in the wheel of progress which these hawks have been and continue to be.


Please strike now before these deformed individuals deal a fatal blow to you and the country at large.

President George Bush handed over to his Vice president D. Cheney for about 30 minutes when he was going for hernia operation but these heartless fellows whom their god is their bellies have toyed with the constitution and destiny of Nigeria. However, God in His unending mercies for Nigeria has given you the power you need to stabilize the polity, permanently resolve the constitutional crises and put these hawks where they belong.   

Thiers is democracy. Ours is Demon-crazy. Hmnn. Too bad for us.

Imeobong:


However, God in His unending mercies for Nigeria has given you the power you need to stabilize the polity, permanently resolve the constitutional crises and put these hawks where they belong.


So our dear acting President whom fate and God have consistently played part in taking you from height to height politically without any premeditated desire and plan of your own, PLEASE STRIKE NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!

With the maltreatment these hawks have given you as vice president till now; the abortive attempts to prevent implementation of supreme Nigerian constitution; the arrogant disdain of your power even as acting president; the recalcitrant refusal of showing us our president; threatening of some of the ministers billed to visit president Yar-adua in Jeddah despite the failures of many that had gone before; the increasing volatile Nigeria political climate; the questions we are asking is what other evidence are you waiting before you can strike and settle down to business of governing and fighting corruption?

Yesterday, your spokesman Mr. Ima Niboro, said the enemies of Jonathan had voted billions of naira to fight the acting president. He went further “They are wicked and ungodly and their time is up! Never, again, must we allow our nation to be strangulated by a privileged few who will rather fiddle with our common wealth while the nation burns. The truth is that not many a president will have the info you have and adopt the position of watchful waiting. Many would have struck far back. You have nothing to lose but everything to gain our dear acting president! Today a coup d’ etat took place at Niger and you have responded promptly as the president of ECOWAS . All the signs are there our dear Acting President. You have the rare and enviable opportunity to become the best Nigeria president our country has ever had but you have to remove these clogs in the wheel of progress which these hawks have been and continue to be.


Please strike now before these deformed individuals deal a fatal blow to you and the country at large.

Some Nairalanders , and Nigerians in general , have been making excuses for Jonathan's tepid behaviour so far but now that he has ultimate power why will Jonathan not dismiss , without delay , those who displayed open hatred for his person and office ? Nigerians will back Jonathan if he does what must be done because we all saw how he was humiliated non-stop in the recent past by the enemies of our nation's progress !!! Donald Duke , more or less , called Jonathan a coward and I backed his stance back then. Jonathan is proving us to be even more accurate now with his inane behaviour as acting President. It is likely Yar Adua is dead/will die. In the past Jonathan could have been excused for fearing the return of Yar Adua but now that he is the acting President fully briefed (probably by the Americans) about Yar Adua's permanent incapacitation , what is Jonathan afraid of ?

I can only conclude that he is a weak individual not predisposed to leading . Yar Adua is similar. We empower many leaders like Jonathan and Yar Adua in Nigeria because our country's political climate is dominated by selfish kingmakers who continuously deploy business-as-usual stooges (like Yar Adua and Jonathan) to ensure that only a few individuals continue to harvest Nigeria's wealth.

Nigerians should look beyond Jonathan . We should focus on getting a progressive President in 2011 who will have the vote and support of all Nigerians since that will be the main 'weapon' a Nigerian President will need to decimate the cabals impeding our national progress.

Whether he strikes now or not, he'll still be struck.

is there any actual governing going on, or are the likes of Imeobong the kind of people surrounding this jonathan?

If we are to look beyond jonathan? who should we look up to?

President Jonathan is a smooth operator.He doesn't need to be coerced to do what he should do.

tpia.:

is there any actual governing going on, or are the likes of Imeobong the kind of people surrounding this jonathan?

@tpia
see me see wahala, did I tell you I am a Politician?

saharachic:

If we are to look beyond jonathan? who should we look up to?

We must focus on 2011 and ensure our vote counts. Nigerians will need to look at all the candidates produced by all political parties. They must then pragmatically vote for the 'lesser of all evil' if they are left with no choice due to the lack of democracy within most Nigerian political parties .

In 2007 we had Yar Adua , Buhari and Atiku. Even a semi-thorough look at those men and their history in office should have show most Nigerians that , of the candidates presented , Buhari should have become the President of Nigeria in 2007. I am no fan of Buhari but I feel that , even accounting for his faults , he was far better equiped to lead Nigeria forward than Yar Adua or Atiku.

Wether we like it or not, average individuals , like most of us on Nairaland, have no say in how political parties choose their presidential candidates so it will be pointless pining for Donald Duke, Utomi, Ribadu , El Rufai or Fashola if those men will not be made the candidates of strong political parties . We must simply choose the best candidate from what we are presented with. What is sure is that we can trust the criminal PDP to produce a business-as-usual stooge like Yar Adua who will ensure Nigeria stagnates while the leeches feed fat.