Ken Nnamani is a politician I respect and as usual he speaks well here. How can anyone not respect one of the few PDP members who manages to consistently say and do what is right?


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201008294292429

2011: Ndigbo have not decided – Nnamani  By EZRA IJIOMA   
Sunday, 29 Aug 2010     

Until President Goodluck Jonathan declares his interest to run for presidency in the 2011 general elections, former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, has said Ndigbo have not made known their position on whether to support the incumbent president for the race or not.

Nnamani in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH said that Ndigbo would give their support to a presidential aspirant who could offer them better terms adding, ”How can you support a man who has not declared his interest to run for office?”

He said, ”Jonathan has not told Ndigbo that he will run for office and they cannot support what they do not know. Ndigbo will support someone who has shown interest to contest the presidency and who has the best terms for them. We will weigh what he has for Ndigbo with what other candidates are offering.”
On what he thinks the Ndigbo‘s expectations from the president are, Nnamani said, ”I don‘t know. When we get to the bridge, we will cross it.

“It is premature to comment on individuals who have not indicated their interest to run. And it is not just about running but telling the people the programmes that they are running on given our situation.”


Also, the former senator noted that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party is yet to provide the desired leadership despite its over 10 years in power.
He said, ”PDP has been in power since 1999 and it is important that it tells Nigerians what it has done since 1999 and what it intends to do in the next four years. It is not just enough to tell Nigerians to have hope; hope on what programme?

”I think that it is very unfortunate that about six months to the elections, we are still talking about who will run and who will not run instead of talking about manifestoes and what programmes are there for the people.

“By now we should have a program of action and not who should run or not run or about zoning. Any individual should by now have a clear programme of action of what he will do for the people.”

Nnamani‘s comment is in consonance with the resolution reached recently by the forum of South-East governors over support for President Jonathan‘s declaration to run for president in 2011 elections.
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State who spoke for the forum of South-East governors as its chairman had said, ”We will support for presidency, a candidate with the best programme that will address the imbalance in the country and marginalisation of the South-East.

”Until he [Jonathan] makes his intention known - we will declare our support for a particular candidate when all the aspirants have declared their interest.”

Exactly the point I have been emphasizing.

How do you support a candidate that has NOT declared his interest to run nor said what he intends to do? You will think this logic is a no brainer but not in Nigeria.

Supporting Jonathan at this stage sounds like sycophancy at best.

mikeansy:

Exactly the point I have been emphasizing.

How do you support a candidate that has NOT declared his interest to run nor said what he intends to do? You will think this logic is a no brainer but not in Nigeria.

Supporting Jonathan at this stage sounds like sycophancy at best.

Ojukwu already instructed Ibos to vote IBB!

bk.babe97y:

Ojukwu already instructed Ibos to vote IBB!

IBB has declared he is running and enumerated what his programmes will be if elected. Johnathan has not!!!!!

Ojukwu if he truly supports IBB have every reason to do so because IBB is already a candidate. Ezeife and co have no reason to support Johnathan yet because he has neither said he is running nor said what he do differently to change our trajectory of the last 50years.

Except that Ojukwu endorsed IBB b4 the latter declared - IBB was consulting at the time.

mikeansy:

IBB has declared he is running and enumerated what his programmes will be if elected. Johnathan has not!!!!!

Ojukwu if he truly supports IBB have every reason to do so because IBB is already a candidate. Ezeife and co have no reason to support Johnathan yet because he has neither said he is running nor said what he do differently to change our trajectory of the last 50years.

Ken Nnamani is just as indicted as any of the PDP leaders. The most important representative of the people is the senate - they control the power of the purse and are supposed to make laws.

To his credit he stood firm against the self-destructive third term OBJ ambition, but in the REAL job he was supposed to be doing he failed Nigerians.

Besides, his name has been connected to IBB as VP - is that the leadership he advocates now. How about Nnamani set up Presidential candidate shop and provide the leadership he has in mind?

Also, the former senator noted that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party is yet to provide the desired leadership despite its over 10 years in power.
He said, ”PDP has been in power since 1999 and it is important that it tells Nigerians what it has done since 1999 and what it intends to do in the next four years. It is not just enough to tell Nigerians to have hope; hope on what programme?

Even Goodluck Jonathan has also been linked to be IBB's VP.

So that rumour means nothing.

mikeansy:

Even Goodluck Jonathan has also been linked to be IBB's VP.
So that rumour means nothing.

I have not heard that one - somebody must be smoking something to even think that as a possibility.

Not that the rumour about Nnamani means anything, although it won't be a suprise like an IBB & Jonathan ticket. It came up during the frenzied discussion here on NL a couple of weeks ago with many Igbo NLers doing their best to justify the IBB option as the best for Igbos - someone said all IBB needs to do is select Nnamani as VP. And of course, a few days later someone suggested that the best strategy for IBB was to select a South-South VP. So, at this point it is all rumour.

mikeansy:

IBB has declared he is running and enumerated what his programmes will be if elected. Johnathan has not!!!!!

IBB gets off easy for some reason. He did not enumerate any programmes at all - in fact one headline clearly noted the lack of one during his declaration: 2011: IBB DECLARES WITHOUT MANIFESTO http://destinationnigeria./2010/08/16/2011-ibb-declares-without-manifesto/

No manifesto
Speaking at his house in Minna, the retired general dismissed all the recurrent obstacles that have been put forward to dissuade his ambitions. However, during a two hour press conference he repeatedly failed to put forward any clearly defined policies. He conceded that policy making was not his strongest point and that he will entrust such matters to a “trusted team of experts.” He however defended some of his old policies such as the controversial Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) which he said foreshadowed many of today’s democratic policies.

Atiku provided a list of "items" during his declaration - a list that can be put together by anybody.