₦airaland Forum

karl max: HOw CAN THE PRESIDENCY RELEASE A PRESS STATEMENT AND NO NIGERIAN PRESS OR ELECTRONIC MEDIA CARRIED THE NEwS?.IS IT THAT SOME NAIRALANDERS ARE SO GULLIBLE OR IS IT JUST HATE? UNA GO SOON KILL UNA SELF FOR GEJ MATTER.

sunical: The President was right. See facts here

https://www.nairaland.com/1063925/president-jonathan-right-transparency-international

http://www.wikicolumn.com/news/was-nigerian-president-right-on-his-transparency-international-claim-42

Elueme: Talk is cheap, keep talking till, your saliva runs dry. First, this topic is mischievous, it is a very big lie the way it is presented sensationally and very misleading. Secondly, the presidency never said that Nigeria is 2nd to America in the ratings of countries with improved corruption indices however, what the president said and which was based on a pure fact was that Nigeria is ranked second to the US amonged countries who have reinvigorated efforts at reducing the corruption menace( it's left for TI to tell if that effort is improving in the fight or not). He ( GEJ) went further to state ( during the interdenominational thanksgiving service) that the country awaits a new rating from transparency international to see if this will reflect on the country's position. These words are sharp contrast to what political jobbers in the opposition are preaching.. These jobbers thinking that most Nigerians won't think had twisted the president's statement to mean that GEJ said that Nigeria is 2nd to the U S in the fight against corruption .. These are different statement aparts and it will take good understanding of English language to decipher.

onatisi: i share ur fears ,somethings is seriously wrong with that guy pr teams,too many mistakes too many times,i think he is surrounded by incompetent ppl and yet either he doesnt have the balls to fire them or he cant see their mistake or he sees nothing wrong in them making mistakes,but i am starting to kind of believe and share demdem idea ,this guy gej doesnt have an idea of governance ,i just hope we dont elect another type of him in the coming election because that will be disaterous for nigeria

kokoA: If this is true then I wonder why Mr. President have not sent his speech writers parking.. This is really embarassing for the presidency. Now GEJ should know that his enemies isn't the opposition nor his social media critics, his enemies are those dinning with him there in aso villa. No Nigerian wants our country to fail, so it beats my imagination when people criticise the government are calle "haters" of the president. Smh! Maybe the speech was written by an CAN member to embarass the president sha.

This post i love

Chubhie: "That anything published and goes unchallenged is the truth" GEJ has good intentions but the sychos and money grabbers keeps misinforming this peace loving and gentleman..... When oga presido nor be small pikin....How dem end up still feeding him lies and he keeps buying baffles me o. I dont envy the position that GEJ box himself into..... Fire all them sychos and make example outta of em.

HQ: Geez, Let me get something straight.

The Presidency now get their information from the National Dalies?

Shocking.

gregg2: Demdem & Dayokanu are one and the same person. Stop logging in and logging out - switching user Id's.

taharqa: The President only clarified that the part about the TI report was misleading, not other parts of that speech. If you have any issues with it, point it out so we could debate it.
http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/52nd-independence-speech

This move by the Presidency is simply the best move: admit your mistake, express your regrets and move on. They rightly judged that it doesn't show weakness but Strength to admit( I certainly would NEVER have supported them if they did otherwise cos cant stand Distortions ). It takes courage to discountenance the pettiness of some opposition critics who would surely pounce on this admission of indiscretion to further their own political aims, and do the RIGHT thing; Leadership requires such courage at times.

I expressed my thoughts on this yesterday:

dayokanu: Jona you still wonder why they call you clueless Retardeen?

Retardeen and his entourage of jesters.

Where are the bootlickers defending the claims just few hours ago

dayokanu: In an attempt to salvage President Goodluck Jonathan’s integrity after a PREMIUM TIMES investigation revealed that the president lied on a claim he made in his independence anniversary broadcast to the nation, the Federal Government on Tuesday said the president‘s claim was based on “notorious facts” provided in a newspaper article.

In his Independence Day speech, Mr. Jonathan scored his administration high on many fronts, despite the widely held believe among Nigerians that its performance had been abysmal.

In an apparent attempt to gain international goodwill, he further asserted that the global corruption watchdog, Transparency International, had endorsed his administration’s war against corruption.
“In its latest report, Transparency International noted that Nigeria is the second most improved country in the effort to curb corruption,” Mr. Jonathan had said in the broadcast.

However, in an email to PREMIUM TIMES, Transparency International said the president’s claim is untrue.
“Transparency International does not have a recent rating or report that places Nigeria as the second most improved country in the fight against corruption,” the Berlin-based organisation told this newspaper.

[size=18pt]The presidency, in a statement released this morning, said the president‘s claim was based on “notorious facts” published by Nigeria’s BusinessDay newspaper.

Presidency sources say the president’s gaffe has caused panic among his speech writers and media aides regarding who should take responsibility for the misinformation.[/size]

The panic is also reflected in the official response, posted on the official website of the Federal Ministry of Information, and signed by a person who identified himself as Reno and did not indicate any official designation.

The Reno, who signed the statement, is believed to be Reno Omokri, Mr. Jonathan’s Special Assistant on New Media.

“As is the practise worldwide, we accept the premise that whatever is published in the media and goes unchallenged is the truth,” the statement said. ”On this issue, the media published their synopsis of the most recent Transparency International report and BusinessDay, a well respected newspaper with bias for business reporting in a headline on the 12th of September 2012 with the titled (sic) “FG’s anti-corruption initiative impacts Nigeria’s global perception.”

The statement indicated that Mr. Jonathan’s advisers merely lifted an article from a newspaper without checking its accuracy and then gave it to the president to read to over 150 million Nigerians as independence anniversary day speech, televised on national television and possibly streamed on the Internet.

Reno added that since the BusinessDay report was not challenged by TI, it should be taken as a “notorious fact”.

“The President acted in good faith and his statement was based on notorious facts”.

The president’s aide then chided what he described as some “opposition leaning media houses” for casting “aspersions on the integrity of the President.”

“They lack ideas on how to move Nigeria forward and would rather snipe at the effort of the President to move the nation forward for which any patriot would do,” he said

Johndoe100: This is the kind of nonsense that I expect from sahara misreporters. I trust that fool demdem to parrot anything from those clowns.

Elueme: Why don't you prove your case beyond nairaland forum in a competent court? Till then, you are only making false accusations

CHESSBOARD: Look at who is talking, the tribalistic warlord himself. This is just a joke and u know it.

CHESSBOARD: When it come to Yoruba , I dey shine my eyes ,

And let me tell you, thats is not his worth but you ppls way of life .... misers,

bubadaniel13: they bring all sorts of false statistics to make people feel bad abt the govt,we have a choice to subscribe to their lies...GEJ is not a liar, I don't we will ever get a gentle President like him,I wish we can all support him he will certainly deliver...

bubadaniel13: how transparent is TI?should we continue to allow outsiders to rate us as they wish,I don't subscribe to imperialists judgements.

CHESSBOARD: Stingy Yoruba man, see the kind of food he gave Orji Uzor Kalu, Bread and stew

Murphy T: wot were they praising? or were they praising the sucess of para olympians

Murphy T: chere were advise

abegii, speak English and let me understand

Camilia247: YOU ARE SO WRONG, de commended Nig's effort in sept.

Murphy T: when u quote me, plz dnt tamper with my words,

i didnt tamper with ur words. i only stressed an important point. by the way those words i wrote had a different font colour. i did nothing wrong. its within forum rules

i hav respect for pple, and i wudnt just called somebody a retardeen, let alone the president...

i also respect people but for the Retardeen, i dont. at least for now. u arent the Retardeen but my president. i cant help it if u dont like it. Other leaders are also called names here on NL so the retardeen shouldnt be an exception. by the way, its within forum rules.

the kudos was given in sept 14th precisely, after the complained in may.

The kudos also came with a timeframe. the specifically told us what they are praising

bubadaniel13: Oga Demdem pls what's the way forward?

Camilia247: I am so optimistic of not just dis fact but abt nig getting beta. The same way TI complained bitterly, the same way d praised d effort made to fight corruption, so letz wait and c wot de have under their sleeves