ABUJA– It was another period of evaluation of the Goodluck Jonathan presidency Thursday in Abuja, as dignitaries including the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and the Governor of Borno state and Chairman, Northern Governors Forum, Kashim Shettima berated the former president for squandering his goodwill on the altar of inexperience and tribal politics. Saraki-Jonathan Both men spoke at the unveiling of the book, “On a Platter of Gold – How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria”, written by an ex-Minister of Youths and Sports in the Jonathan administration, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi. Shettima who chaired the occasion was the first to fire the salvo, saying inspite of “Jonathan’s fairytale rise to power, his sheer display of bad governance, lack of political sagacity and willpower, he squandered the array of goodwill he commanded and subsequently got humiliated out of office”. Shettima also took a swipe at the ex-president for surrounding himself with religious bigots and tribal warlords who made him believe that the Chibok girls abduction was a balooney.

“Sadly, Borno was the epicentre of the crisis that engulfed the Jonathan administration. This is the second book I am reading on the Jonathan saga. I think President Jonathan is essentially a decent person, an unsophisticated country politician caught up in the vortex of power politics in Nigeria. “When the Chibok girls saga started, they made the president to believe that there was no abduction; that the Chibok girls were kidnapped by the governor of Borno state ostensibly to embarrass the Jonathan administration and he believed that line of story. I was in Chibok, my wife was in Chibok and there was a global outcry on the issue but Jonathan was in a world of his own created by the clowns and also the misfits around him.

I wasn’t invited to Abuja until nearly three weeks later and even when I was invited to Abuja, I was quiet thrilled that at last I was getting the attention of my leader. I was asked to come along with Commissioner of Police, the Divisional Police Officer in Chibok, the Commissioner of Education, the Military Commander in Chibok and the Director of DSS in Borno. “We were all ushered into the Villa. Sadly, when the president came in, he was still in that mood. He started threatening the school principal that she should tell them where the girls were. ‘principal, you must tell me where the girls are. Commissioner of Police, you have to tell me’. He immediately ordered for the arrest of the principal, the DPO, Commissioner of Police and the Director of DSS, that they must produce the girls.

In this very unfortunate saga, MD Abubakar, the then IGP arrested them, took them to the Force Headquarters and informed them; ‘Lady and gentlemen, I cannot hurt you because I am a man of conscience.
I will let you go based on self-recognition.’ And they were released to go back to their duty posts but I was shocked, I was quiet taken aback because I thought solutions were going to be found to a very serious national challenge, instead, the president was still of the mindset that those girls were not abducted and that goes to show the quality of leadership in this country. “Incidentally, the Brigade Commander in Chibok, was an Ijaw man, one Capt. Godknows.

And because they know the president is such a very unsophisticated simpleton, he is such an honest man, they knew that if they had brought in the man, they would have gotten him confused. So, they deliberately refused to bring the Brigade Commander in Chibok and that made the president to lose a true perspective on the issues. But we have to give it to him, that by conceding defeat, he saved the nation from the precipice.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/%e2%80%8ejonathan-wasnt-desperate-for-power-but-unprepared-for-leadership-saraki/

Seriously

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First time I agree with saraki

Ok

all our politicians are intelligent if they chose to do right thing...

Enemies of the state won't be happy with saraki again oooo

So Saraki is intelligent

" I think President Jonathan is essentially a decent person, an unsophisticated country politician caught up in the vortex of power politics in Nigeria. "
- a codification of fact at a high cerebral level.

Replacing him with a dullard desperate for power and lacking in brain for rational thinking wasn't the solution neither.

I smell a rat

Very true of Jonathan.... Many people close to him, took advantage of his cluelessness and gullibility. Including his wife...

Saraki hitting the nail on the head for the first time.....i know Omockery will come up with his usual useless rantings and would start calling people names.

I mean how would a sane and serious politician appoint FFK of all people to lead his campaigns.....the result is obvious. DEFEAT

Just like his colleaques he was a clear case of ambition with no vision. If he had a bit of vision maybe there would be 600,000 bpd refinery somewhere in ND by now employing hundreds of thousand of people.
He was not only unprepared, he wasn't ready to prepare for or even adjust to the demands of Nigerians.

Meanwhile both Saraki and Buhari were desperate for same power but at same time never prepared for leadership.

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I am not sorry to say the Ex President is a blank chap. Even now outside governance he is still markedly a 'local' man both in thought and deed. The big issue I have is the corruption.

Keneking:
So Saraki is intelligent

" I think President Jonathan is essentially a decent person, an unsophisticated country politician caught up in the vortex of power politics in Nigeria. "
- a codification of fact at a high cerebral level.

He is not intelligent but a thief, looter and a rogue, they use big grammar to steal, in a sane clime, people like Saraki and his gang will be in jail for all the atrocities he has committed, where is my cane to flog both Jonathan and these useless criminal called Saraki, they all contributed to the sufferings in the land

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Adminisher:
I am not sorry to say the Ex President is a blank chap. Even now outside governance he is still markedly a 'local' man both in thought and deed. The big issue I have is the corruption.

Nationalist statement

If Jonathan wasn't prepared, then Buhari isn't even born yet.

dey should allow that man be biko.He's a past tense.Saraki should open up on the 2 bullet proof jeep,the money some men in black looted from his Abuja house etc.Niagrans are hungry and Angry

Saraki Chose his words well, return to PDP loading.

Jonathan was just a brutal mistake.... Imagine a visionless, drunk, woman wrapper and grade A dullard ruling a nation.

The useless mofo would definitely be behind bars in a saner clime.

There is nothing usual in stealing funds meant for arms to fund election. Jonathan was a disater only God delivered us from his hand he could easily have been made to destroy this country and he will do so because he doesn't have a strong sense of morality.

Right from independence until Now, no Nigerian Leader was ever prepared for Leadership. They either usurp power or are illegally imposed or get in thru deceit and cheap propaganda to unsit the incumbent. Nothing new. Similar to how America is only living on past glory since from after the times of JF Kennedy.


There's little or no possibility in passing an Examination you never prepared for.

Nigerian Leaders has history in never having a definite blue prints, No realistic agenda, just reasons upon reasons why the sitting president/head of state has to go. These reoccurrences is what make an accidental leader wait four month before appointing ministers whom have not served a year and starting to have indictments up and down.

Similarly, it's an accidental leader that grants presidential pardon to a disgracing treasury looter who dresses like the opposite sex to deceive.

It is an accidental leader that will call another accidental leader a failure, just because another accidental leader decides to turn a blind eye to his excesses and withhold the full power of the law from catching up with him and declaring him cleared. All because he now shares same sentiments or belongs to same party.

Nigeria is blessed in human capital and natural resources, but would it be out of place if one should say we are CURSED in Leadership?

And when he was told to be careful, he became careless!!!

sarrki:
This apt

First time I agree with saraki

Guy! Shut up! I can bet you didn't read the post, you commented based on the headline.

Stalwert:
There is nothing usual in stealing funds meant for arms to fund election. Jonathan was a disater only God delivered us from his hand he could easily have been made to destroy this country and he will do so because he doesn't have a strong sense of morality.

who will deliver u from this maina something?

yaki84:

who will deliver u from this maina something?

Where is cownu ?

Stalwert:

Where is cownu ?

hv u check ur latrine?

yaki84:

hv u check ur latrine?

Oh you buried him in your village latrine? Good he deserved such a smelly end. He lived dishonorably he died miserably.