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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed concern over the trend in the polity as the elections draw near.
Speaking during the commissioning of the 1.15 kilometre Afi-Uko Nteghe Uda brigde on Etebi-Enwang road, in Mbo Local government area of Akwa Ibom State, on Monday, Jonathan said he was worried over the negative energy that the forthcoming elections have generated.

He stated that politics of bitterness hinders development, and called on politicians to market their politics with ideas, rather than fight, insult and abuse their opponents.
“I’m a bit worried by the negative energy generated ahead of the 2023 elections. We have noticed a level of bitterness in our politics that does not bring development and I plead with politicians that marketing is about marketing your ideas. Politics is not about fighting, is not insulting, is not about abusing.”
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“We have been reading in the newspapers and social media of how billboards of Presidential candidates, governorship candidates are pulled down and I believe by hoodlums, but sometimes, they say some governments even support those kind of things.
“If you are a part of the team doing that, then know that you are among the unfortunate miscreants, virus or pathogen that is really decomposing our democracy. Please stop doing that; but in all these, I believe the security services have a lot to do.
“I believe anybody who commits a crime should not be covered under politics. Arson is arson and is never status bound, so somebody who commits a crime, burn houses, kill people, the record must be kept, and whatever the investigation is completed, such people should be prosecuted; that is the only way people would stop doing this.
“But if people commit criminal offences and walk away, then, of course, other people would be encouraged to do same. So security services in Nigeria have a lot to do, they must not spare any criminal,” he stated.
Jonathan who described the bridge as one of the longest in West Africa, commended Governor Udom Emmanuel for his developmental achievements, saying his administration has good intentions for Akwa Ibom people.
He noted that some major ongoing projects which Governor Emmanuel had assured would be completed before the end of his tenure in May, is proof of his commitment to improve the life of the people.
While speaking, Governor Udom Emmanuel said he had satisfied his conscience with his achievements across the state, adding that despite criticisms and the falsehood peddled against his government, he tried not to be distracted.
Emmanuel commended the community for supporting the construction of the project, saying the project confirms his promise to open up the riverine areas.
He revealed that the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility is waiting for commissioning, adding that it can service two 747 800 series of an aircraft and is appreciated across the world.


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Obi in the mud.

This should directed to Governor wike of rivers state.

Lol.

Whether you like it or not, you're paying and will continue paying your share of the loans Buhari and his unfortunate gang have collected and are still collecting. You're asking how?

For every phone call and text message you send from that phone, a tax is imposed on you and is remitted to the government. For every 1gig data you buy to come online and support the government and her inadequacies, you pay a tax. For every bank, pos or atm transaction you execute, no matter how small the amount, the banking institution takes a tax from you and remits to the government. For every kilo of meat, mudu of rice, basket of tomato that you pay that market woman to take home, you pay an unwilling tax which is covered by the ever increasing prices of those items. I can go on and on.

You and I are sadly paying for the electoral mistakes that the majority made in our 2015 democracy, which is regrettable but cannot be changed at this very point. But where your doom is going to come, is when you consciously reinforce a continuity of this ugliness by February, because you have decided to enthrone tribalism and religion to vote for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, one of the prime architects of the pain we're all going through, one of the worst candidates on the ballot, and certainly one who will come and triple the taxes you're groaning to pay now, just so he can have enough extra resources to plunder and pillage.

The time to regain your collective senses is now! We warned you like this in 2015. We're warning you more now. If you like, pay heed! By 2027, with Tinubu as your President, some of you will have died from hunger and the rest of you will be too weak and pale to even raise a voice or finger in protest.

Vote Wisely!

Amb1045:
Lol.

Whether you like it or not, you're paying and will continue paying your share of the loans Buhari and his unfortunate gang have collected and are still collecting. You're asking how?

For every phone call and text message you send from that phone, a tax is imposed on you and is remitted to the government. For every 1gig data you buy to come online and support the government and her inadequacies, you pay a tax. For every bank, pos or atm transaction you execute, no matter how small the amount, the banking institution takes a tax from you and remits to the government. For every kilo of meat, mudu of rice, basket of tomato that you pay that market woman to take home, you pay an unwilling tax which is covered by the ever increasing prices of those items. I can go on and on.

You and I are sadly paying for the electoral mistakes that the majority made in our 2015 democracy, which is regrettable but cannot be changed at this very point. But where your doom is going to come, is when you consciously reinforce a continuity of this ugliness by February, because you have decided to enthrone tribalism and religion to vote for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, one of the prime architects of the pain we're all going through, one of the worst candidates on the ballot, and certainly one who will come and triple the taxes you're groaning to pay now, just so he can have enough extra resources to plunder and pillage.

The time to regain your collective senses is now! We warned you like this in 2015. We're warning you more now. If you like, pay heed! By 2027, with Tinubu as your President, some of you will have died from hunger and the rest of you will be too weak and pale to even raise a voice or finger in protest.

Vote Wisely!

When tinubu was a Governor, did your fellow Igbo brothers died of hunger?

You’re so slow. Find a better campaigning strategy..

Eyah Oga Jona..

The only reason is cuz stealing is not corruption..