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In the past few years, the administration of outgoing President Goodluck has given women more voice in government. While some of the women were humble with power, others became burdens to the government. In this piece, YUSUF ALLI, MANAGING EDITOR, NORTHERN OPERATION looks at what next for Jonathan’s women.
Disputably, the outgoing government of President Goodluck Jonathan prided itself as having increased women’s participation in government from 10% to above 30 %. In a foreword to a book, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Champion for Women, the controversial Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, said: “This is indeed, not just historic, but something special in the history of Nigeria! Half the world’s population is female but the international average of women in elected office is only around 20%. Look at the top office-holders, and the figure is lower still; in Nigeria, however, one in three members of the Federal Executive Cabinet is a woman. It is a fact of which all Nigerians, male and female, can be justly proud.”
Some of the key appointments bestowed on women in the last four years were the Chief Justice of the Federation, ministerial appointments, Directors-General / Executive Secretaries of key parastatals, the first female Rear Admiral, and the enrolment of female regular combatant into the Nigeria Defence Academy among others.
But the most contentious had to do with the appointment of female ministers. It was a motley crowd with mixed grill results. From the self-styled mother of the nation, First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan, whose grammatical blunders were theatrical, to the untouchable ex-Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah.
The women in Jonathan’s team regaled the nation with different scenarios. Miffed by the absurdity of some of the women in government, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo at a point said there were five presidents in Nigeria, referring to President Jonathan, the First Lady, Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke; ex-Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah; and the Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr.(Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Their unexpected disengagement from power leaves a question: what becomes of them? The list includes the first female Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Alison-Madueke; the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala; the Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe; Oloye Jumoke Akinjide; the Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson; Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina; Minister of State for Education, Prof. Viola Onwuliri; and Minister of State for Agriculture, Hajia Asabe Asmau Ahmed.
Others are Minister of Land, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs. Akon Eyakenyi; Minister of Environment, Mrs. Lawrencia Laraba-Mallam; Minister of Information, Sen. Patricia Akwashiki; Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Mrs. Hauwa’u Lawan Bappa; ex-Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah; ex-Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia; ex-Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Lady Amal Pepple; ex-Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai; ex-Minister of State for Power, Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim Kuchi; ex-Minister of State for Defence, Erelu Olusola Obada.

OKONJO-IWEALA
The 61-year old, Minister of Finance since 2011 had occupied the same office between 2003 and 2006. For a brief period, she was also Minister of Foreign Affairs. Her second missionary journey into the Federal Executive Council has been lack luster, riddled with controversies and largely a disaster. Right from the onset, she assumed the unconstitutional status of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy to the consternation of her colleagues in the cabinet. In spite of the constitutional aberration of the office as conferred on her with fiat by the President, she pretended all was well while usurping the position of Vice President Namadi Sambo, who is naturally in charge of the coordination of the economy. Besides most Ministers go cap in hand to her for budgetary allocation, the implementation of the nation’s budget had hardly reached 60 per cent implementation in the last four years. To her credit, the economy grew to become the largest in Africa, following a rebasing exercise, with little impact on the standard of living of Nigerians. Although Okonjo-Iweala serves on the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity, it was amazing that under her nose there was fuel subsidy scam and about $20b oil cash could not be accounted for. All manner of consultants were imported to manage the economy in one form or the other. There can be no better verdict on the state of the economy than the 10-page treatise of a former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, who said: “Our public finance is hemorrhaging to the point that estimated over N30tn is missing, or stolen or unaccounted for, or simply mismanaged.” Certainly, this her second coming has affected her rating as a development economist. She is likely to return to her NGO, NOI Global Consulting after a troubled tenure. But no one will listen to her shriek voice anymore. Above all, she has a job to clear her name of the financial sleaze in President Jonathan’s government.

ALISON-MADUEKE
Born in December 1960, the Queen of the oil sector has set a record of being the most powerful minister Nigeria has ever produced. Her words were law in the Federal Executive Council and no Minister could oppose her memo. Doing so will incur the wrath of the powers that be.
Ministers dote on her because that is the surest way to win the hearts of forces at the Presidential Villa. Once at a session of the Federal Executive council (FEC), she banged the phone to the consternation of all. Yet, there was no reprimand because she towers above all. In his bid to get reappointment after cabinet dissolution, a former Minister allegedly once prostrated for Alison-Madueke in her home.
A mermaid with her unique beauty, the minister who grew up in Mubi had been a trail blazer with many firsts including the first Nigerian woman to be on the board of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Nigeria; the first female Minister of Petroleum Resources; the first female Petroleum Minister to work with five Group Managing Directors of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); and the first female OPEC President. The fuel subsidy scam under her care led to a nationwide shut down in January 2012 and the protest almost brought the Jonathan administration to its knees. Apart from the local content development initiative, it is difficult to point out any spectacular achievement of her in office. The failures were like anthills: over $20b oil funds unaccounted for; disinvestment in the oil sector by International Oil Companies (IOCs); fall in the sale of crude oil; non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB); increase in oil theft; award of N4b pipeline protection contract to ex-militants and militia leaders. Although she still has an assignment in OPEC, it is likely she might step aside as the cartel’s President because the slot is usually for a country and not an individual. What next is being a player in the oil sector. But before she becomes an oil baroness, she may appear before many panels to defend her tenure. She will have rough days ahead but she has the gut to survive the odds.

OMOBOLA JOHNSON
The Minister of Communication Technology was born on June 28, 1963 to the family of the late High Chief Bayo Akinnola, who was the Lisa of Ondo Kingdom. Born into a family noted for its integrity and hard work, she was the Country Director of Accenture (a Management Consultancy Group) before she emerged as a Minister. Though on the quiet side, she has been able to achieve an increase in ratio of mobile subscriptions from 68.49% in 2011 to about 85% in 2015. Also, the mobile phone coverage which stood at 40% in 2012 might increased to about 55 to 60 per cent before the end of the year. Her greatest weakness is the inability of her ministry to address epileptic GSM service by telecoms firms. Though the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) imposed over N1.17billion on some telecoms firms, the sanctions were like mere slap on the wrist. Mrs. Johnson might return to the private sector after leaving office.

SARAH RENG OCHEKPE
A quiet and highly religious Minister, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe was born in October 1961. A trained journalist and holder of Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Jos. During her tenure, Nigeria has been able to achieve about 69-70 per cent access to potable water; constructed or rehabilitated 33 dams and 28 earth dams nationwide; and executed 15 irrigation projects which could create two million jobs when fully utilized. The ministry also secured a N2.4billion grant from Japan for water supply to five states. She was also able to address annual flooding in the country by developing Flood Control and Early Warning System (FEWS). For the first time in the history of the Ministry of Water Resources, she ran a trouble or scandal free tenure. Soft spoken and brilliant, Mrs. Ochekpe ran into political storm when she coordinated the controversial campaign dinner for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and President Goodluck Jonathan where about N21billion was raised beyond the N1billion campaign limit in the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). Before she could be consumed by the campaign fund crisis, former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana came to her aid by claiming that the funds were meant for the completion of PDP National Secretariat. After May 29, Mrs. Ochekpe will remain a key grassroots player in Plateau State from where she was catapulted into national limelight. She used to be a member of Afri Foundation seeking to tackle poverty in Africa. Definitely, she will return to local politics because she is rated as “loyal”.

JUMOKE AKINJIDE
A product of Harvard Law School, the 56-year old Oloye Jumoke Akinjide is often judged in the shadow of her father, Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide (SAN) who was known for the controversial 12 2/3 politics at the Presidential Election Tribunal in 1979 which led to the upholding of the election of ex-President Shehu Shagari. Oloye Akinjide’s vision was for the FCT to be “among the top 20 capital cities in the world.” But she is leaving a decrepit city whose master plan has been abused by Abuja land grabbers. All the six Area Councils she superintends are gradually turning into slums where nothing works. She has spent the last two years preoccupied with politics in Oyo State because of her deferred governorship aspiration. She is likely to return to her Newman Legal Office after her tenure has elapsed. But take a bet, she will not stop playing politics in Oyo State because she thinks she is a force to reckon with.

VIOLA ONWULIRI
A Professor of Biochemistry, she was a shadow minister under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in the last four years.
Her devastating moment in office was when she lost her amiable husband, Prof. Celestine Onwuliri in the DANA Air crash of June 3, 2012. A mother of five and grandmother of three, she was born in June 1956.
While as a Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, she was in charge of bilateral agreements and the coordination of Bi-National Commission with the United States. She burnt her political fingers recently when she was involved in a protest march with some widows in Owerri, Imo State. With the way she was panting after a raw deal in Owerri, she does not have a strong heart for politics. She has the choice to return to the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Jos or engage in NGO and church activities which have earned her more than 200 recognitions.

ZAINAB MAINA
One of the oldest in the cabinet, Hajiya Maina was born in 1948. A caterer par excellence, she has spent a greater part of her life as an advocate for women. Apart from being a former National President of the National Council for Women Societies of Nigeria, the climax of her career was in 1994 when she was appointed as the Executive Secretary of the Adamawa State Women Commission. During her administration, she has been able to prevail on 23 states to pass the Child Rights Act; she launched the National Database for Vulnerable Children; promoted Affirmative Action which led to more positions for women beyond the 20% target set by the UN and establishment of skill acquisition schemes in 20 VVF Rehabilitation centres nationwide. She is going back to the grassroots for more women advocacy after May 29.

STELLA ODUAH
Despite the fact that she is no longer in President Jonathan’s cabinet, Princess Stella Oduah is one of the five mighty hands behind the wheels in the presidency. In and out of office, she remains an unseen hand. While in office, she embarked on the remodeling of Lagos New General Aviation Terminal, and airports in Kano, Maiduguri, Sokoto, Ilorin, Katsina, and Akure. She also renovated Hajj terminals in Kano, Kaduna, Abuja and Sokoto. Hardworking but rated as power drunk, the 53-year old ex-Minister was one of the “untouchables” in Jonathan’s cabinet until she was indicted for the purchase of two bulletproof (armoured cars) at a cost of N255million for use as a Minister. The scam led to her unceremonious exit from the cabinet.
President Jonathan’s foot-dragging on Oduah’s fate almost created a moral problem for his administration. After sullen period, the princess has regained her track. She is now a Senator-elect from Anambra State.
After May 29, she has a date with history because she is still being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

AMA PEPPLE
Until she was suddenly sacked by President Goodluck Jonathan, she was one of the most experienced female ministers Nigeria has ever produced. Armed with a First Class Bachelor’s Honours from University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), she was a Clerk to the Senate, ex-Permanent Secretary in seven Federal Ministries. As a Minister, she developed National Housing Policy and National Urban Development Policy. Her early exit from the cabinet was due to her audacity in telling the President to settle his political differences with Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Not minding her age, she knelt down for President Jonathan in order to avert the inevitability of losing his re-election bid. She was booted out of the cabinet. But today, she can walk tall because she has been vindicated by the defeat of Jonathan. She is a good chorister in church. She might bounce back to power soon.

PATRICIA AKWASHIKI
Born on November 2, 1953, Patricia Naomi Akwashiki, once representing Nasarawa North as a Senator. Though she is presently the Minister of Information, she was yet to settle down when her boss was defeated during the Presidential Election. As a Senator, she sponsored a bill to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau Act. As a politician, she had defected from the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). She may likely return to politics which has entered her blood.

ASABE ASMAU AHMED
Before her appointment, she has had a brilliant career in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and what a source described as a “rewarding experience” in the private sector. A reputable town planner, Asabe is also respected for her frankness, honesty and devotion to duty. She will surely go back to the private sector.

AKON EYAKENYI
A former Commissioner for Industry, Commerce and Tourism in Akwa IbomState, she is a nominee of Governor Godswill Akpabio. With the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development proving a hard nut to crack since she came on board, she is likely going back to her state for local politicking.

LAWRENCIA LARABA MALLAM
Prior to her nomination, she was the National President of Catholic Women Organization (CWO). Her appointment was borne out of political exigency and calculation for the just-concluded Presidential Election.
As a grassroots mobilizer, she could however not save Jonathan from defeat in Kaduna. She may return to church activism.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/what-becomes-of-jonathans-women/

Outgoing President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, should now start preparing for the longest journey he had ever undertaken in his life. He is going home. Although, given any of the fleet of ten aircrafts at his disposal, and a military helicopter, the trip should not last more than one hour. But, to a Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, of any country, who has just been defeated in an election, every nautical mile will appear like ten thousand miles. Each will be filled with unpleasant sensations. And, arrival at the destination will bring more pain – unlike previous visits to the small community which were joyful.

To be sure, there will be people there to welcome him. But, even the returning native son knows that the atmosphere, instead of being fun-filled, will be the opposite. The reason is simple. They don’t really want him back; at least not in 2015. And, they don’t want him returning like a beaten cock its feathers drooping and head bloodied. But, go he must; and receive him back, they must – for he has no place else to go. As Poet Robert Frost, 1874-1963, had told us, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” (VBQ p 93).
One of the major differences between this trip and others before it soon becomes manifest. Until now, the pilots and motorcades dropped him at home and waited for further instructions about where to go and what to do. This time, they off-load him and Patience, their luggage and give him a final salute and they depart – to take instructions from the new Commander-in-Chief, Buhari. The era of GEJ has come to a close.
Since this is only a prelude to other articles that will follow on the RISE AND FALL OF GOODLUCK JONATHAN, permit me to stop there for now. At least one book will come out of this from me. It has taken four years longer, but I predicted this in 2011.
GEJ AS SELF-CONFESSED POLITICAL UNDERTAKER -1
“You have given me your assurances of support but some of you are secretly campaigning for Atiku Abubakar. I can’t stand to be humiliated by you. I am the Captain of this boat. I am not going down alone. I am going to sink this boat and go down with all that are in it.
President Jonathan at the 55th National Executive Committee Meeting of the PDP in 2011.
That was Jonathan in 2011 and, those gathered there at the convention to dig their own graves with him, were not sagacious enough to understand that, like the pilot bent on committing suicide, given a plane to fly, he will take as many people as possible down with him. Many, whose political careers are in ruins today, should have had the wisdom to disembark from the plane. After all, an Area Boy like me, not even a professional politician could read the danger signals involved in flying with a captain who threatens to go down with everybody. But, what are Nigerian politicians if not grave diggers. They went on board anyway. Even some, who were not initially on the flight, squeezed themselves in at the last minute. Permit me to list, not necessarily in order of importance, all the individuals and organizations which went down with “Captain Goodluck”.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was an accident waiting to happen – right from the day one Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, newly released from prison, was admitted as a member in 1998. The real surprise to me was how long it took…More on this later. The grand old men of Afenifere, AWOISTS, and their new young recruits, went into partial oblivion when they agreed that the Alliance for Democracy, AD, would present no Presidential candidate in 2003, in exchange for OBJ letting them keep their states.
They kept their promise; I warned them; then OBJ betrayed them. GEJ lured them into their own political coffins; Afenifere is now in the graveyard for sure; so is OPC… Niger Delta Militants, as well as their “god-father”, Chief Edwin Clark, have a new battle on their hands. Most of the militants are still young; but if they want to live to be as old as Chief Clark, they better now eschew violence. It’s a new ball game.
Finally, at least for now, Mrs Patience Jonathan can go home with her crude words and uncouth behavior. The office of wife of President had never been brought so low. Character can never be hidden. She called herself “Mother of Nigeria”.
My mother would never have insulted any person older than her as Patience did to Buhari. God had saved us from having to suffer through four more years of such a “mother”. She can now go and be a mother to her own children and grandchildren anyway she likes. My kids will never emulate her and they are teaching their kids not to even try…Bad manners will never be fashionable in decent society.
LAST LINE: Regards to Fayose, Fani-Kayode, my co-columnists who said it could never happen. Now everybody knows who is prophetic.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/jonathans-long-trip-back-to-otuoke/

Lalasticlala abeg where u from dey fish out all these ur throwback pictures?

GEJ my man

Everybody is talking.

Even person wey no sabi Buhari.

Anyway no be their fault na GEJ give the the room

If the defeat thought you a lesson then learn from it.

PDP pls stop complaining and focus on April 11 before you lose all ur states to APC again.

This change no be small thing o.

Everybody is preaching peace.

From Jona to Dokubo to fayose to MEND to Tompolo.

Thank God for Nigeria.

Sai Baba

What is DAT otuoke man doing with ibb and abdusalam?

Nice one.

See as the two posters above me defeated me to the post of FTC just the same way GMB defeated my Otuoke bros.

Sai BABA

#changeishere

Why is osinbajo sitting like a secondary school student

You have no choice than to accept it whether u like it or not.

GMB till 2019

Sai BABA

I love dat man JEGA

After governing Kaduna for years and being the VP for six years your state failed woefully.

Just see how u are sending our brother back to otuoke.

Sambo why?

Just my thinking



Conji is a bastardd

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Kano on Sunday announced the cancellation of election results of two polling units in two local government areas of the state.

The INEC Assistant Director, Public Affairs,Lawal Garba, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Sunday.

He said the results were cancelled because they were tampered by suspected thugs.

“The results were cancelled in a polling unit in Kibiya Local Government Area and Jodade Polling Unit in Kunci Local Government Area.”

According to him, some people suspected to be thugs forced the electoral officers to change the election results.

He also said that the commission had conducted election in 13 polling units on Sunday in two local government areas of the state following hitches recorded during the Saturday’s elections.

He said the election was held in five polling units in Shanono Local Government, while in Tudun Wada Local Government Area the election was conducted in eight polling units.

(NAN)




http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/180058-inec-cancels-election-results-in-two-kano-polling-units.html

I've not even heard anything from my home state Enugu.

But I know gej will win there 100%

Their fellow celebrities are all here voting for change and transformation and they are busy there doing one nonnsense show.

Anyway sai jona or baba

dis election has consumed souls

Dis poster above me why u do me so?

Already celebrating my FTC

Anyway tomorrow is another day

#votenofight

Sai jona

Ekwensu aromanso mami wata

All I know be say GEJ must win whether manifesto or not

arrangee deliverance.

hope the boy and girl have collected their balance from the pastor

PDP

power to the people

Jonathan will keep transforming Naija till 2019


Sai Jona

I wonder where dis lalasticlala dey fish out all these his throwback stories and pictures.

Pls I need throwback picture of GEJ and PEJ traditional marriage.




GEJ till 2019

David mark till 2027

Johnny give uche belle


He talk say he wan marry Nene


Nwokem kedu ihe neme