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4Play: There is a certain irony in the headline as Lai Mohammed has been in the front line in the battle to gain political capital from the Boko Haram menace.

It's hard to tackle a problem if there is no national consensus that it exists. The Government has shown a callous disregard for the victims of Boko Haram and an utter lack of a sense of urgency. The opposition opposed even the mere imposition of states of emergency and its presumed flag bearer, Buhari, proclaimed that we should cease killing Boko Haram members and pursue the amnesty option coupled with monetary compensation for Boko Haram followers.

Even now as Boko Haram takes over towns, there is still no sense of urgency. GEJ acts like a callous pyschopath who doesn't realise his country is burning. The Nigerian people are busy debating inanities like whether Buhari or Ihejirika is behind Boko Haram. It's a very provincial mindset that plagues this country as there is a refusal to see that there is an global Islamist terror movement and Nigeria has caught its attention.

Pennywise: A despotic leader is a dangerous leader.

An ineffective leader is a more dangerous leader.

But a clueless leader is the most dangerous of them all.

We are witnessing the first steps of the complete unravelling of the Nigerian state and all our senators and reps are interested in is sharing money. What a shame.

BlackTechnology: Nigeria's greatest problem is not corruption but lack of understanding of how best to take her people out of poverty into wealth.

There is no country that do not have corrupt leaders

Its just that the systems those nations operate have made the effect of corruption insignificant in the life of those nations

If you are GEJ list out the steps you will take to lift out Nigerians out of poverty into wealth.


So my brother over stressing on corruption is not the way out but finding out new ways of solving our problems

This is the same mistake Sanusi made when he over stress on corruption and ended up achieving nothing unlike his predecessor (Soludo) who knew corruption is not the ultimate problem but lack of understanding of how the financial system affects the masses which he understood and properly managed to the point whereby his CBN policies influenced the creation of
1) Bank jobs for unemployed graduates
2) Investment pools for investors
3) Bank money for Businesses and self employment

At the end of both men as CBN chiefs , Soludo era created more jobs while Sanusi era created more joblessness



On a lighter note

List one world leader that is not corrupt

deletrue: Who is this riff raffs again? What is the word misery here for? I only expressed how the blood pressure of your likes will increase like astronaut without remedy, you are saying misery here. From your post, is anything more likely than hate? I advised that you make an advance registration with the nearest clinic or hospital because there is the likelihood of you haters going to admission as GEJ's success is guaranteed. Final foolstop.

DonaldGenes: Maybe he didn't, same as me..Just hearing the #BringbackGEJ2015 now now now

deletrue: Am just thinking of how these haters will feel when GEJ's swearing inn ceremony will be carried out. Na serious die for them sha.

omenka: Jonathan has shown time and again how much he cares about the people he claims to lead and who he is accountable to or give damns about!!

He gives a damn about Americans and what they in their papers!!

He gives a damn about a lil 16yr old Pakistani kid!!

He gives a damn about Hillary Clinton!!

He "doesn't give a damn about us"!!

Only fools would insist on the continuation of such classless, careless, corrupt, lying, and unbelievably inept and incompetent regime!!

koboko66: When u employ incompetent mofos to do anything for u...that is what u get. We have seen how childish and senseless some of the OcuppySocialNetwork have been, We have also seen how TAN have exhibited immaturity both in the real world on on thr social media...which Nairaland seems to be thier headquarters with admin himself the nairaland TAN president.

First Occupy Nigeria became Occupy Social media

Now
#bringbackourgirls became #bringbackjonathan.

PDP's think tanks can never be creative, they only exploit what is already on ground..

soroptimist: It is only a senile person or one suffering from acute Amnesia that will pit the next 4years of his life with GEJ

Let's call a spade a spade......Jonathan is a failure

It is only people who relish averageness as a norm in their lives that will score GEJ a D7.......for me his result hover around the borderline of E8-F9

GEJ rather than be a Nigerian President is now a friend of ethnic bigots,religious fanatics,tribal supremacists,militants,secessionists,corrupt looters,cultists and bootlickers

torkaka: They don't come this low!! History will surely have a special spot for the man called Goodluck Jonathan, I don't seem to remember any other time in all my years on earth that Nigeria has been ridiculed this much!!

The ineptitude of fedora hat wearing cartoon character man is legendary!!

size38: GEJ and his PDP using SURE-P to dupe jobless Nigerians? Na wetin fit Nigerian Youths. Good for them. Until they know how to vote in Reasonable govt into power, their lives will remain miserable

size38: GEJ and his PDP using SURE-P to dupe jobless Nigerians? Na wetin fit Nigerian Youths. Good for them. Until they know how to vote in Reasonable govt into power, their lives will remain miserable

skyfall: APC surely has many imperfections that need to be corrected. In fact i criticize them a lot. But PDP doesn't even come close.

Give me a choice between both, and i'll choose APC anyday. The only thing that's keeping PDP together is the common interest they share in looting the commonwealth and holding power just for the sake of it. They have absolutely no clue about solving the gargantuan problems of Nigeria. They don't even admit that we have problems anyway. To them, Nigeria is heaven.

Any party that thinks Goodluck Jonathan is the best Nigeria has to offer, is evil and you should run away from it.

thwarrior72: Muslims killing themselves since 600AD & blaming others

ImHotepX: BananaBender and 50calibre

I was going to call it a day when I saw this thread.

I think the both of you are right. Both the government and the people are responsible for the woes of Nigeria.

Government: in as much as Nigeria is just a mere geographical expression/location on a map occupied by Nigerians - the government since its inception started the systematic destruction on the mentality of the people. And the fault-lines for sentiments were further instilled into the psyche of the people with creating a centralised system that never bothered to analyse how the country would work, and create a dialogue on the way forward for the different ethnic nationalities - and how to douse the fears of ethnic domination over the other. That was how sycophancy, and tribal sentiments were planted into Nigerian mentality. I'd wager that a lot of these sycophants do whatever they do based on that.

Then, you have to also consider how a long period of military dictatorship enmeshed permanent fear in the minds of the average Nigeria. I believe that affected the people so much that it has become a vicious cycle - and failure has become part of the everyday life of the day. And once you throw faith and always hoping, rather than going out to what you want and your entitlement into the mix, then you should get a better picture. Also, once you look at the education system, created by the government, and how it has failed the people - you definitely can't absolve the government for creating this vicious cycle of destruction. People more time are just a product of the environment.

People: in as much as the people are also those who make up the government, perhaps, you should blame the system for systematically destroying the people, who end up becoming the government. However, it's also difficult to absolve the people since we live in an age where information is universal with globalisation. And accessing information and enlightenment, has never been by easier in real time in history humanity. So, it's the responsibility of the people to be able to self-educate themselves on what's right and what their entitlements are, devoid of sentiments, and stand collectively against tyranny and whatever destructive forces are holding their collective destiny to ransom. So, blaming the people for their insensitivity, selfishness, and aversion to change, is also right.

Hotep!

Ciao!

ahaika23: Tufia, I spit on you.

kendrick93: its easy to scream and shout at ur keypad on a faceless forum. why dnt u do sumtin abt it then.mr brave one.

okunboy: We were told that dis war is not a conventional one...
We were told bokoharam mixed among the pple.....
We were told that our border is too large and porous
We were told that bokoharam run to the neighbouring countries after they attack us to take cover........and international rule of engagement forbids blah blah blah......
We were told so many excuses......

Today, this war is now conventional: bokoharam seize towns and erect flags.....they stand face2face with nigerian army. But yet our soldiers can not meet up with the enemy fire power...except for some 'tactical manuover' into the neighbouring country.

Today, our neighbours are even showing more power and tactics in engaging the enemies..killing them and rescuing their captives. ..

Execuses upon excuses..........from this incompetent govt.