VoodooDoll:

If GEJ resigns, what would be the sequence of events:

1) Sambo gets sworn in;
2) SS agitates that the North has cheated;
3) SE agitates that it was its turn for power;
4) North rejects Sambo as being Westernised;
5) Military picks a side (North?); and
6) Crisis and extreme violence all around.

We are better working with the "tool" that we have and use the "tool" as an opportunity to renegotiate the terms of our union.

Kobojunkie:

If the man resigns, or if he is impeached, I believe Nigerians will readily match to the polls to vote someone in. Not Violence or fears of civil wars as some pretend.

emiye:

Jonathan's resignation or impeachment will not lead to[b] fresh elections[/b] unfortunately.

The constitution stipulates that the second in rank takes over

Monday, 07 November 2011 01:14
Jonathan under fire over attacks Featured
Written by  Ade Adesomoju

Following Friday attacks by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram in Maiduguri and Damaturu, Nigerians on various social network sites, including the Facebook, Twitter and online discussion fora, have blamed the incessant attacks on the "weakness" of Goodluck Jonathan Presidency.

Many of those who posted comments on the Facebook wall of the President, expressed disappointment in him, saying his approach to security issues in the country was characterised by timidity and had failed to justify the mandate given to him at the April poll.

When our correspondent visited the President’s Facebook wall on Sunday at about 9.54pm, his latest post was on Thursday around 10.07am.

Though he wrote on the progress his administration had made in some sectors, but the preponderance of the reactions to the post focused on the latest of Boko Haram attacks.

[b]A comment made by one Facebook user named, Precious Nevene, read, "Sincerely, you can do better than this. I had serious high hopes when you became President. But now you have to fix this. A leader that doesn’t inspire confidence and respect from his people is no leader at all."

Toyin Fajana commented thus, "GEJ, how come 136 of my cousins in the north were killed in one day. What the heck (sic) are you doing. You are Commander in Chief. Please act like the Commander in Chief you are. You seem to be the one sabotaging your government."

Martin Ogboogu, on his part stated, "Nigeria will go to war very soon. We need action or maybe you will get the message when the Boko Haram bombers hit you or Dame. Sort out our security now."

The reactions of Nigerians on Twitter are not different.

Iniobong Umoh™ tweeted at about some minutes past 9pm, "These Boko Haram people have succeeded in making President Goodluck Jonathan weak and powerless, no one believes him anymore."

Chikaoduah, at about 4.28pm, "We are highly disappointed in the administration of Goodluck Jonathan."

A post by Godman_n on Nairaland on Friday at 3.24pm stated, "Jonah, Jonah is navigating the ship of the Nigerian state. Let those that gave us Jonah bear the brunt of his misrule."
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Prince_kingsley, apparently reacting to the deluge of criticisms of the President, said on Nairaland on Saturday, "I do wonder what some dudes want Goodluck Jonathan to do about the issue of Boko Haram. Will he kill himself?"

Paying The High Cost Of Political Amateurism By Ugochukw Raymond Ogubuariri


Presently, the National Assembly, on one hand, and the Ministries of Petroleum, Finance, and the NNPC, on the other hand, are locked in a blame game and denials regarding the non-remittance of N450 billion to the Federation Account by NNPC. It is in the context of this cacophony of conflicting voices and anarchy of governmental disorderliness that President Jonathan is proposing the withdrawal of fuel subsidy with a promise to invest its proceeds in transforming the country into an Eldorado.

Indeed, the more we conclude that we’ve probably had the worst from the PDP-led government, the more they invent more repressive policies as if to ensure that Nigerians never get to enjoy any moment of respite. On Thursday 3rd November, 2001, the government came up with a plan to re-introduce toll gates on all Federal Roads in the country. It is pertinent to note that in 2004, former President Olusegun Obasanjo spent million (if not billions) of naira to demolish toll gates in the country following its planned removal of fuel subsidy. Obasanjo then had felt that removing fuel subsidy while still retaining toll gates would have sparked mass protests across the country.

[b]Strangely, if General Obasanjo, notorious for his hard-heartedness, could make a gesture of sparing some considerations for ordinary Nigerians by removing the burden of toll plaza (even if controversially), what do we then say of President Jonathan – the self-acclaimed lamb that is supposed to take away the economic sins of Nigerians? Shockingly, he is not only imposing fuel tax and subsidy removal, but also, backing it up with toll fees. What a double-barrelled assault?
Predictably, some uncritically minded Nigerians would rise in defence of this new policy by arguing that as long as it ensures that our roads are motorable, it is a worthwhile imposition. My question then is this: what has happened to the billions of naira appropriated annually for use by the Federal Ministry of Works and Transportation? What assurance do we have that the proceeds from this new toll gates will not end up as campaign funds for PDP? What tangible infrastructural achievement can we really ascribe to Jonathan’s government apart from a determinate resolve to evangelize and inflict pain, misery, and melancholy on hapless Nigerians?[/b]

When you aggregate and juxtapose all these proposals with the gradual, ongoing devaluation of our currency as well as the hike in tuition fees for most public school, it then becomes brutally clear that our trouble as a people is cogently real and painfully so.

In the light of this unbroken barrage of “Jonathanian tribulations,” can we honestly and convincingly say that anything has changed? In making the tragic misjudgement of renouncing political correctness and flirting with the strange contrivance of “voting for personality and not party,” do we not stand indicted for signing our collective death warrant and, unwittingly, driving a nail in our collective coffin? Are we actually learning any lesson from our present self-inflicted travails, knowing fully well that by 2015, we will file out and march through the electoral crucible once again?

EMANY 01:

@ Kobojunkie
I get the feeling you want to come back to ekiti under some entity other than Nigeria perharps Oduduwa republic no?
Ask any military minded analyst the events of the last eight months in Libya was a rude reinforcement /confirmation(more like) of what could happen in a contry like Nigeria if say the Niger-deltans or more optimally the Niger-delta and the south-east insist on withdrawing from Nigeria over some perceived slight all the while supported by the usual suspects who will call for peacetalks negotiations and all what not all the while they have already decided that the resulting new nation/nations suit their interest better(pay particular attension to the fact that for a while the rebels only had 4x4s something widely available in the ND).Even the Chinese will get in line.
I have an assignment for you:Imagine if you will Goodluck Jonathan being impeached via a core northern and western majority in congess or worse still his motorcade being attacked successfully with him killed in say KANO while he is on an official visit there.
On second thot dont the aftermath is too grave to contemplate.

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