kcjazz:

People have a right to be skeptical at every move of the FG, it is now GEJs duty to prove them wrong. African leaders are dangerous especially the ones that come into the office with a high goodwill from voters.

25 years ago, GEJs Ugandan friend said:

The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power ~ Yoweri Museveni 1986


And as you know, he is still there. God bless Nigeria

Kobojunkie:
No one is mentioning the fact that Jonathan Goodluck has already completed 1 year in office, and will have completed 5 years by 2015.

Kobojunkie:

No one is mentioning the fact that Jonathan Goodluck has already completed 1 year in office, and will have completed 5 years by 2015.

dayokanu:

GEJ for second term though he has not started the firt term? I dey laffoooooooooo


If he knew 4yrs wont be enough, why contest for a 4yr term,
Stability? what has he been doing for the past 1 yr?

Beaf:

Jealousy.

cvibe:

GEJ was the only one to travel round the 36 states and he saw the reason why 4 years will not be enough. So, he may be right in his own words.

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metodman:

Am starting to think that 90% of Nigerian youth are worse than these old thieves, Why vote for Goodluck when we all knew this man wasnt any better. DIS MAN DID NOT DO ANYTHING GOOD AS A GOVERNOR OF A SMALL STATE WITH LOTS OF INCOME AND U EXPECT HIM TO DO WELL AS A PRESIDENT OF A COMPLICATED COUNTRY LIKE NIGERIA? Some of us voted for this man cos he is from the SS, Ask some others why they voted for Goodluck and they will tell u, its because his name is goodluck, Some even say he will go against OBJ, IBB and d rest but ask them what they think of PDP. Its obvious they didnt have a good reason to vote for him yet they claim to be the future of this country, Its so Pathetic! The most unfortunate thing about this, is that both the smart and and the foolish will suffer the same consequence. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT WHAT YOU SOW IS WHAT YOU REAP,

metodman:

Am starting to think that 90% of Nigerian youth are worse than these old thieves, Why vote for Goodluck when we all knew this man wasnt any better. DIS MAN DID NOT DO ANYTHING GOOD AS A GOVERNOR OF A SMALL STATE WITH LOTS OF INCOME AND U EXPECT HIM TO DO WELL AS A PRESIDENT OF A COMPLICATED COUNTRY LIKE NIGERIA? Some of us voted for this man cos he is from the SS, Ask some others why they voted for Goodluck and they will tell u, its because his name is goodluck, Some even say he will go against OBJ, IBB and d rest but ask them what they think of PDP. Its obvious they didnt have a good reason to vote for him yet they claim to be the future of this country, Its so Pathetic! The most unfortunate thing about this, is that both the smart and and the foolish will suffer the same consequence. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT WHAT YOU SOW IS WHAT YOU REAP,

crow_addy:

You guys need to ro watch to the whole video of the inagural lecture to understand the presidents statements that is being quoted out of context.
What he meant was that 4yr is not enough to transform a country like Nigeria. That Nigeria cannot make any giant stride the with the stop/restart process that we have at the moment every 4yr .He gave an intance of  a president from the Northeast locating some major infastructural projects in his region and after 4 years another chap comes from the southwest and restarts construction in his region leaving the previous one initiated by his predecessor.He said each years budgetary process should be part of a long term national plan which at present is being spearheaded by the National Planning Commission and that legislation is being pushed throgh to this effect.
He gave the instance of Nigeria having 24 foreign affairs ministers since independence and said that some people can take up to 2yrs(depending on the ministry) to really understand issues and wondered what foreign policy objectives can be achieved with changes like that insinuating that he might only drop ministers that performed poorly.

omanzo02:

Nairalanders I hail thee,

GEJ statement is not new, he made similar statement before the election when he was alleged to have proposed a single 7 years term for president and want legislators to develope more experience in the house and everyone here was after his throat, and he still making the same argument and u all are talking as if it's something new.

There is a post somewhere in the forum about this before the election.[b][/b]

Eziachi:

If you think about your above statement, that would have set your alarm ringing when it seems that he is obsessed with tenure extention instead of concentrating on how much he can achieve with what he got. With a pessimist like him, even if you give him that 7 years, he will still call for me.


Those around in 1976 will not forget Murtala Muhammed in a hurry.  How he took on the corrupt Nigerian estblishment and made a mark.  He was in power for just six months.

Those around in the 80s but chose not to be blinded by ethnic bigotry will never forget how Buhari/Idiagbon changed the Nigeria psyche from that of a deep corrupt nation to the one where even Molue passengers becomes orderly and civilized.

Bribery suddenly disappeared, IMF/WORLD bank was told that we can only pay whe we had the cash and not by putting the masses through extreme austere measures. Governors, no longer emperors but servants of th people.

And these was achieved despite sabotaging effort from within by the Babangida group and this was achieved within short period of time.