You took the words out from my mouth. Thank God his wife have actually confessed her involvement in the crisis. This people have really made a rubbish of nigeria's presidency.

An editorial by the Sunday Trust headlined,
“President, Call Your Men to Order,” caught my
attention as one more in a long line of similar
editorials written recently by a couple of newspapers
such as The Guardian, Peoples Daily, ThisDay and The
Sun, all of them saying “Mr. Jonathan, you are wrong
on Rivers.” I could not but come away worrying about
the future of the honeymoon between this
government and the press.
Has the President lost touch with public opinion?
Hear the Sunday Trust: “Many eminent Nigerians
have condemned the events in Rivers State and
President Jonathan’s complicity in them. Nobel
Laureate Wole Soyinka, former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar, constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben
Nwabueze, former Bar Association President, Olisa
Agbakoba, SAN, and prominent lawyer Femi Falana,
SAN all joined in the condemnations,”
If the climate of opinion against the President in the
mainstream media is bad, it is worse in the new media
where Dr. Jonathan has effectively been chased out
of the social media. He hardly tweets these days.
Another leader would have paused to ask questions
about why things are going wrongly for him. A local
proverb says that “the one who wants to come out of
the hole must first of all stop digging himself
deeper”.
The President’s response to his abysmal showing in
the battle for public opinion, a new report just said,
is to have his strategists throw money into this
problem. This report says a good section of Minister
Sama’ila Sambawa’s hotel, the Sigma Apartments on
Aminu Kano Crescent – Wuse, Abuja is now housing
tens or hundreds of Internet-savvy young men who
are being housed and fed there for the purpose of
using the Internet to manufacture public opinion in
favour of the President. A primary target of this
Internet war is Governor Amaechi of Rivers, who
must be made to look bad. A lady who said she sighted
the document behind the scheme to simulate or forge
the on-line public opinion said a hundred of such young
men will be hired and housed in hotels for the same
purpose, in all the 36 state capitals of the
federation.
The problem with the strategy is that telling a lie
one hundred times doesn’t make it the truth. To
convince Nigerians that they are safe, they must
themselves feel safe at home and on the streets.
Nobody will believe you when you say you improved
electricity when the bulbs don’t light up. How can you make sense talking about job creation when we have our sons and daughters, cousins and near relations coming to ask for bus and taxi fares roaming city streets looking for work to do? Government can make outrageous claims on these as a measure of the lack of accountability in our system but as the Yoruba say in one of their rich proverbs, “if the one being told the story does not know that he is being told a lie, the one telling the story knows that it is a lie”. The Nigerian mass media, both old and new, must be held in a justifiable esteem for their critical stance against the current engagement of the First Family against the democratically elected government of Rivers State.

This is not the way to change a government in a democracy. The action of the police, backed by the Presidency in Rivers State is capable of truncating the Fourth Republic if allowed to fester. Terrorists planning more attacks on our country need no more than watch the video aired by Channels TV in the evening that the five emboldened members attempted to take control of a parliament of 32 elected members. Terrorists have reasons to feel emboldened after seeing that ugly spectacle on TV. Terrorists strike when there is intelligence failure or as in the case of Port- Harcourt, the government which controls the police shows the way.


I note that since the incident, the spectacular media
showing of the Rivers State government has remained
unmatched by the federal government. Dr. Doyin
Okupe whose turf it is to respond to these matters
could only muster words that are abusive. He had my
admiration when he served creditably as spokesman
for President Obasanjo. At the time of his
appointment, the media community felt much insulted
that a medical doctor, not a professional journalist
had been appointed to such key government position.
But Doyin steeped himself in the job, ignoring all
criticism and in the end did a better job of it than
most of those so-called professionals who held the
job. But on the dispute with Rivers, it is Ibim
Semenitari, the information commissioner 1, Doyin
Okupe 0.
Doyin doesn’t need to orchestrate hypocrisy theories
to explain media attacks against the President.
Hausas say “if you eat mangoes, flies will follow:
throw away the mango if you don’t want the flies”. No
matter what the President says, the media will
always offer criticism because that is their job.
They will even twist his words and put meanings which
were not intended.
The media will always blow up matters. The President
is the President and this goes with territory. If
citizen Babagana, Baba Karami or Baba Kekere speaks,
the media will not even find it worthwhile to analyze.
If Dr. Okupe doesn’t have anything to say; no defence
to offer, he should just remain silent.
Another sad role in the whole of this crisis is that of
Minister Nyesom Wike. Wike was the Chief of Staff
to Governor Amaechi before he was appointed as
Minister. Now an Abuja man, Wike has realized that
his seat could decisively tilt the balance in 2015 not
only in Rivers but in the country as a whole. When he
came to Abuja, it was very much in his capacity as
Amaechi’s trusted lieutenant. Turn-coats don’t
impress Nigerians.
As for the continuing criticism of Abuja by the
entire gamut of the media and public opinion, there is
no better way to cleanse the country of criminal
malcontents who, because they have money and
muscle, think that they can throw out democratically
elected state governments without going through an
election.

And some grown up foooolssss would still expect us to believe that the guys at Aso rock are not behind this.

nwekesimon68: THEN WHO WILL REPAIR THE COUNTRY Gej is trying his best ok

is best is not good enough. Don't you get it?

Impunity!!!!

So much impunity. Am so sick of this present government.

It is still available.

My playbook is still available.

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tomakint: Too many clowns on Nairaland lately! Jonathan is taking PDP through a phase unfortunately, many goons especially from the oppositions seem not to see the handwriting on the wall that PDP is weeding out the bad eggs and thereby creating a stronger party faithful members who will be loyal to the leader, the man, Jonathan! By the time this process is concluded, 2014 will be used as a time to win new 'faithful' that will take the opposition by surprise - you can quote me!

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tomakint: Too many clowns on Nairaland lately! Jonathan is taking PDP through a phase unfortunately, many goons especially from the oppositions seem not to see the handwriting on the wall that PDP is weeding out the bad eggs and thereby creating a stronger party faithful members who will be loyal to the leader, the man, Jonathan! By the time this process is concluded, 2014 will be used as a time to win new 'faithful' that will take the opposition by surprise - you can quote me!

and one idiot will call this the most sensible of all post so far.SMH

Okay.

I will send the photos tommorrow.

Did you applied with them?

Please, how can I apply?

And you would expect the president to give his precious assent to such bill. I laugh in swahili.

Sorry house, the asking price was meant to be #40k.

imsu.boi:
Who else thinks PDP are a bunch of clueless and ret.arded individuals whose only aim is never to see this country progress.



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91 likes so far. Men, people are really detesting this party more and more everyday. Can't wait to see 2015 elections come to pass.

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Hemanwel: I keep wondering why Gov.Fashola has never been nominated for Silverbird Man Of The Year Award - despite having some Govs as its past winners.
Or could it be that the organisers of the award have some political undertone?

so you no know that one since. You must be a learner.

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gramci:

How did you arrive at 7.3%? Any foool can come up with figures. Gone are the days people just present fictitious data without empirical basis. Am waiting for you to present the basis for your conclusion.

how did you arrived at your figures as well that shows that this clueless government have been a success after three years in power. Please tell me. Bloody asslicker.

isetilaye:

obj won in 1999 without the sw backing

yes but with the help of the northern bloc which supports your retardeen would never get this time around.

abbakacici: My assumption governor that vote for jang are in SE Abia Anambara Ebonyi Enugu SW is ondo SS bayelsa cross river delta akwa and in north plateau benue katsina bauchi taraba kaduna and 16th might sokoto or kebbi

kebbi precisely. Sokoto couldn't have given their votes to pro GEJ candidate.

and he floors the retardeen again

Abagworo:

The OP is not far from the truth. I used to side ACN but I now side Jonathan. I'm sure that will be the case in the larger society with the way the opposition has tried to politicize sensitive issues.

and same things applies to the ruling party too. are they not politicizing major issues as well. i can sight examples if you request for them.

the OP of this particular thread is a joke. jonathan's popularity hitting the roof. i laugh in taiwan

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You tried.

Let's see how everything goes. But I can't trust this present leadership with all sincerity.