₦airaland Forum

barcanista:
The Government of Goodluck Jonathan is Clearly a Government of Deceit. Finance Minister Okonjo Iwaela and Petroleum Minister Diziene Allison Madueke Owe Nigerians some explanation as regards this "MAGIC"

barcanista:
Analysis Of Petroleum Subsidy Appropriation Between 2006 to 2014

President Obasanjo
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2006- N151.9 billion
Price of Petrol N65 per liter

2007- N188 bn
Price of Petrol N65 per liter


TOTAL: N339.9bn In TWO Years

President Yar Adua
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2008- N256.3bn
Price of Petrol N65 per liter


2009- N421.5 bn
Price of Petrol N65 per liter


2010- N673 bn
Price of Petrol N65 per liter

TOTAL: N1.356trn In 3 Years

President Jonathan
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2011- N1.3 trillion (which was revised up to N2.19trillion)
Price of Petrol N65 per liter


2012- N1.049tr (Despite the partial removal of Subsidy)
Price of Petrol N97 per liter


2013- N971bn (Despite the partial removal of Subsidy)
Price of Petrol N97 per liter
2014- N971.1bn (Despite the partial removal of Subsidy)
Price of Petrol N97 per liter

TOTAL: N5.222trn in 4 Years

egift:
TOTAL: [size=14pt]N5.222trn[/size] in 4 Years

"Ordinary Stealing, Nigeria will call it Corruption" President Jonathan (on National Tv)

barcanista:
Yes o [size=14pt]N5.222trn[/size] just on fuel subsidy alone despite the "PARTIAL REMOVAL". Our Economy Minister is a genius

barcanista:
ABDULRASHEED MAINA
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Fmr Head of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms. Appointed by Jonathan. His job was to unearth and prosecute those that dipped their hands into Police Pension Fund. In twist of event, Maina was alleged to have participated in N195 billion pension fraud. He was indicted by the Senate, recommended for sack and Prosecution but Jonathan dragged and only sacked him two months later. As at today, Maina hasn't been convicted.

PRINCESS STELLA ODUA
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Former Minister of Aviation that was alleged to have allocated N255 million for the purchase of 2 BMW Cars without appropriation in what was the biggest corruption scandal in Jonathan's cabinet. She was indicted by the Senate and the Presidential Committee setup to investigate her. After a while, she was relieved of her Job and walks as a free woman. NO PROSECUTION by any of the concerned Agencies.

FEMI FANI KAYODE

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Fmr Aviation Minister, whose trial on alleged looting of N250m was instituted by the Yar Adua Government and pursued. He was "cleared" of wrong doing few months after he defected to PDP (Jonathan's Camp)

CHIEF OLABODE GEORGE

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Chairman of the NPA between 2001 and 2003 was Convicted in 2009 for contract splitting that amounts to N2b. He served his term. Went to Appeal Court to Upturn the decision but failed. "Miraculously" the supreme court in December 2013 upturned the decision "because the offence had not become a criminal offence as at the time the alleged incident took place."

MOHAMMED ABACHA
Son of Late Maximum Ruler Sani Abacha. Abacha's family looted the treasury without mercy. Millions of Dollars was recovered and more unearthed. Mohammed was facing corruption charges instituted by the Obasanjo regime, however, Our BENEVOLENT President withrew the charges from the court. Mohammed is a chieftain of the PDP and a Governorship Aspirant under the PDP.


All the Above listed are allies of the President and has endorsed his 2nd Term bid

Jonathan's Quotes:
Corruption is not Nigeria's number one problem
Stealing is Not Corruption

vicadex07:
Op your forgot alameeigseha, al mustapha, farouk lawan, abba moro, alison madueke and other subsidy theives that were never mentioned, yet the masses were made to pay for it. Our president likes romancing theives, liars and corrupt minded people. What does that make him?

Throughout his whole administration, not a single corrupt public official has been successfully prosecuted. All we hear is setting up of various committees without anything tangible to show for it

egift:
Irrespective of who becomes the next President of Nigeria after Jonathan, the war on corruption can not be regarded as started without prosecuting Zoologist Jonathan. And Nigerians will demand Capital Punishment.

barcanista:
We All Are Familiar With This

Register and become the transformation Ambassador of Nigeria.Remember there are lots of benefits as a member.Just click on d link and register,is as asy as ABC. http://tan.org.ng/onestar/register.php?id=27404
The Benefits of being a One Star TAN Ambassador are enormous.
You have access to firsthand TAN activities.
You have access to offers and opportunities which include travelling , training , Job opportunities etc.
N10,000.00 logistics money.
You become a ward coordinator and may rise to a State coordinator.
You represent your ward in a national meeting of TAN Ambassadors.
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TAN is founded/Coordinated by a Jonathan Ally Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah

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Ifeanyi Ubah was accused to have SCAMMED the country of N60b Kerosene Subsidy Scam in 2012.The Federal Government through the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) gave Ifeanyi Uba 60 days to pay back N5 Billion being rogue proceeds he made from Kerosene subsidy or risk arrest and prosecution (What a benevolent Govt).
In 2013, The Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police arrested Mr. Ifeanyi Uba, for his alleged involvement in the fuel subsidy fraud, running into N22.4 billion. Ifeanyi Ubah has neither been cleared of his charges nor convicted. This Same man is going about telling Nigerians to reelect Jonathan in 2015.

barcanista:
Bros like I once told you, I am a private citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Every article I post are based on fact and I challenge anyone to dispute it. I invested my mental, financial resources(to buy data) and time into this without external support. So quit the "Tinubu stuff" or whatever. Meanwhile, Don't derail and face the issue at hand. I won't derail with you

barcanista:
We are witnessing an insincere government. A government of deceit. We must not reward them in 2015

barcanista:
DR. GOODLUCK EBELEMI JONATHAN
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ECONOMY
1. Nigeria Debt profile was cleared by the Obasanjo Administration. As at September 2010(6 Months After Jonathan ascended to power), Nigeria's Debt was $4.53 billion. As at today, Nigeria's debt stand at $66.99 billion. Yet The country still suffers High Unemployment rate and relatively lack of Infracstructure.
2.The inflation rate in Nigeria was recorded at 8.30 percent in July of 2014
3. Nigeria import-Export ratio stand at 97%-3% in favor of Import
4. Under Jonathan, Hoarding, Black market, selling above approved price eg Fuel, Gas, Kerosene etc and all.

CORRUPTION:
1. Ministers Stella Odua is walking a free woman despite Her 1ndictment by Presidential Committee, Senate Committee, HoReps on the N260m bullet proof cars. She's even aspiring for the Senate.
2. Corrupt convict Alamesiegha was pardoned in less than 8 years after his conviction for corruption by the Administration
3. Femi Otedola, Ifeanyi Ubah, Dizieani Maduekwe and other Subsidy THIEVEs 1ndicted by Presidential Panel and Parliamentary Panel for billions of DOLLAR fraud, are walking scot free..Coincidentally, Maduekwe is the Petroleum Minister and Chairman of NNPC and Ifeanyi Ubah is the leader of TAN Group Campaign-that advocated for Jonathan's reelection.
4. Alleged Corrupt Officials in the ruling and opposition parties are walking scot free. Some of them have corruption case withdrawn by the Government eg Presidential allies Fani Kayode and Mohamed Abacha. Some have their conviction upturned for "flimsy" reasons.eg Olabode George.
5. despite the High corruption in every sector, NO HIGH PROFILE conviction has been made by the administration.
6. The President Publicly said "Stealing Is Not Corruption"
7. $20b is allegedly missing from the treasury. Though the Finance Minister refuted the claim but admited that "about $10b is unremitted"

INSURGENCY
1.The Government Inherited Boko-Haram sect...After they were initially contained by the Yar Adua's Administration. under the watch of this government, scores have dies prematurely by the sect, towns, villages and communities captured. Military Personnel demotivated, some refused posting, majority complaining of inadequate weapons and ammunitions. over 6000 Nigerians have been killed. Hundreds kidnapped, infamous of the kidnap is the CHIBOK KIDNAP of over 200 school girls.
2. Militants and Not Naval Personnel are incharge of our waterways in the creeks earning Billions on monthly basis. Oil Bunkering is still common and shortchanging the treasury.

OTHER SECURITY
1. Robbery, Rituality, BABY FACTORY, Advanced Fee Fraud, "One Chance" is a common menace.
2. Political motivated thuggery, street thuggery is not uncommon.

PETROLEUM INFRASTRUCTURE
The Government Promised 4 NEW Refineries in 2012 and upgrade of existing ones. Till DATE nothing has changed. Fuel Subsidy Import Bill stands at N1trn.

THE PRESS
The Government SIgned the Freedom of Information Bill into Law, which is plausible. But Cases of Military harrassing Pressmen and journalists on daily basis, That the Committee to Protect Journalists on August 22, 2014Warned of dire consequences should the infringement persist.(One begins to wonder the sincerity in the FOI law).

barcanista:
Are we to vote for PDP based on these?

barcanista:
Many of us anticipated for this day, some us were glued to our TV set hoping to hear what the FG has done and why they want to get elected. Rather than tell us what they had for us, these are what they told us

[size=13pt]President Goodluck Jonathan[/size]
"Before 2011 nobody voted with voters card, people vote themselves, but in 2015 people are getting voters card"
(admiting that he rigged 2011)

"Arresting corrupt people will not stop corruption"

"Somebody says he will catch people and throw them to kikikiri"

"There is nothing like corruption any more, There is no corruption in the military"

"Nigeria ladies so you want to vote to go back to the kitchen and DIE there or you want to liberate yourself"

"Okah was procured from South Africa to assassinate me on October 1st"- Jonathan
(The same MEND that Jonathan exonerated a day after the Bombing)

[size=13pt]Other Commentators[/size]

"PDP is the oldest party in Nigeria, it is the only party that didn't change logo"-Adamu Muazu, PDP Chairman

"We can export rice to Washington"... PDP Anchor

"In the last four years the PDP has transformed Nigeria positively on Nigeria" "All Nigerians can attest to this"-David Mark, Senate President

"The same way that PDP has governed other states is the same way I will govern Lagos State"--- Mr. Jimi Agbaje

"Do you want to go to jail?"- Akpabio, Akwa Ibom State Governor

"Are You Ready For A Change"- Olabode George!!!

"He (Jonathan) gave us Hope" "Tomorrow if you want to become a business owner, the President will do it for you"- Joseph Yobo

"If not for Mr President we wouldn't win the Nations cup"- Joseph Yobo

PassingShot:
This will run into many days of research, omenka.

medamillion:
@barcanista, put in bracket (before protection)

omenka:
It definitely will. I wonder why you've chosen to take on such mighty task.

Regardless, I think it would make good reading. Just a recap of events leading up to Jonathan's defeat.

#CloselyFollowing

PassingShot:
He who comes to equity must come with clean hands

omenka:
Ride on bro, we gat your back.

PassingShot:
Barcanista: Jonathan's Administartion - An Ally of Corruption

https://www.nairaland.com/1866202/jonathan-administration-ally-corruption



Special mention:



Barcanista: TAN, Ifeanyi Uba, Corruption and Goodluck 2015 Project
https://www.nairaland.com/1870270/tan-ifeanyi-ubah-corruption-goodluck



Barcanista is a "patriotic citizen"


WE must not reward this government in 2015

barcanista:
In saner climes, the ruling party plays according to the rules. They are civil and not inciting. They respect Opposition party as a vital organ of the society rather than enemies of the State. They also uphold the laws of the Land above partisanship.
But what do we have?

1. The PDP Spokesman and her chieftains accused the APC to be "muslim brotherhood" "Islamic Party"... Thereby inciting the Christians and the muslims against each other.

2. Chief Arthur Eze, PDP Chieftain in the Presence of the President Called APC "Awolowo Party" or literally "Yoruba Party"- Thereby promoting ethnic rivalry

3. PDP Chieftain Lawal Kaita threatened to make Nigeria Ungovernable IF the Northern PDP faction did not become President in 2010. No one questioned him. Today we have Insurgency, No one has questioned him.

4. The President publicly said a particular tribe(Igbo) is the pillar of his Government, thereby promoting tribal hatred and ethnic bickering

5. A BokoHaram Convict publicly confessed that a PDP Senator Ali Ndume is a Major Sponsor of the Sect. Coincidentally, Senator Ali Ndume is a member of Presidential Committee on Terrorism. Yet he's still a Senator.

6. Senator Ali Ndume mentioned Vice President Sambo that he's aware of His(Ali) communication with the sect. Yet we have a Government and Party that pretend as if such never existed

7. Ali Modu Sheriff was named as Sponsor of the Sect, he even appointed one of the sect Leaders as HIS COMMISSIONER FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIR while in Power-before he was killed. Yet Modu Sheriff is walking free. Hob-nobing with the President.

8. Some of the President's Ministers and Associates have been 1ndicted for Corruption and Fraud yet they are still in government.

9. What Kind of a Party that arrest Opposition figures before, during and after election?

10 What kind of a party will seek to gag opposition?

11 What Kind of a Party will want no opposition and want everyone to fall at their whimps?

12 What Kind of a Party will play politics with #BringBackOurGirls Campaign, only to take orders from a 17years old foreign girl?

13 What Kind of Party will Suspend Schools from resuming because of Ebola, discourage public gatherings in affected states but still went ahead to hold a rally in Rivers State, an Ebola Affected State?

14. What kind of a Party is PDP?


I have More To write but for space and time sake....

barcanista:
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@ Ngwekwe: It will be fair you move this to Front Page in the Spirit of Equity and Fairness

ashieduplus:
Following

egift:
APC is a renewal of hope for Nigerians. PDP has spent 15 years in making Nigeria, a giant crawling on it stomach. APC is a viable alternative to PDP. Nigerians has never had an alternative that can defeat the monster called PDP.

By voting in APC and voting out PDP, Nigerians will achieve 4 things in our Political Space:
1. That the Masses are the Boss. While our politicians are the servants.
2. It will mean the APC will not repeat the nonchalant leadership dispositions that PDP have been dishing out for the last 15 years.
3. PDP will have the opportunity to go back to the drawing board to re-prioritize what is paramount to them (to protect criminals or to serve the people).
4. And since PDP know how to steal, they will be in a better position to police the Government under APC by exposing any possible malpractice even before Nigerians can find out.
5. Nigerians will have the opportunity to stop Corruption and use the wealth God has given us to develop Nigeria, instead of the massive, free-for-all looting we are seeing under PDP.

So any Patriotic Nigerian will see that it is for the best interest of Nigeria to vote out PDP and elect APC come 2015. Nigeria will rise and triumph again.

Pataki:
THERE is every reason to be apprehensive as the 2015 presidential election approaches. Not mainly because Nigeria as we know it might shrink on the pages of the world map as has been loudly predicted, but because a certain group like Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) is poised to rewrite the electoral law on the auspices of the presidency.

A cursory look at TAN as an organisation, its agenda and the forcible pimpernels who drive the group cast a slur on the dithering state of affairs on the presidency.
TAN's banal, lawless and propulsive avowal to continue its campaign for the reelection of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, against the grains of electoral laws which stipulate 90 days period of open campaigns, clearly corroborated earlier indices that President Jonathan values his Aso Rock tenancy than the security of Nigerians and the safety of the adducted Chibok girls.

The foul-mouthed Methuselah or Olisa Metuh, the PDP propagandist Secretary, barely belabored his vanquished self that his party, the PDP, and the presidency have no hands in TAN's reelection campaigns for the president. How evasive can that be?
The fact that key government officials, including the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the PDP Governors and serving ministers such as Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, are part of the jamboree, moving from one geopolitical zone to the other collecting signatures, suggests that TAN is an organ of the PDP and President Jonathan's campaign machinery.

The presidency is not alone in the revolting TAN saga. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which has a responsibility to regulate all electoral activities, including political campaigns has seemingly capitulated. INEC has become a pathetic aberration, a helpless umpire, driven primitively like a puppet by its master.

With its compulsive silence, INEC has squandered the public trust it enjoyed. Just look at its role in the Ekiti and Osun elections.
The cynicisms arising from INEC's inability to rein in TAN, the PDP and the presidency to play by the electoral rules is such that it dampened INEC's assurances that it is capable of securing and guaranteeing a level playing field for all political parties as the 2015 elections approaches.

INEC must rise to the occasion, and responsibly too, through official pronouncements and other punitive measures as a precursor towards the disbandment of any violating political parties or outright disqualification of erring candidates from contesting in the 2015 election.
Nigerians are at a loss as to why INEC has not invoked the relevant electoral laws and bringing sanctions to bear on TAN, PDP and president Jonathan for unleashing violence to the rule of the game and the nation's constitution he swore to protect.

President Jonathan owes it as a duty to Nigerians and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to uphold every letter in the statute book. He owes it as a duty to disentangle himself from TAN's falsehood, repulsive insults and the open mockery of the people's sensibilities.
Given the enormous resources at the disposal of the presidency, and its robot TAN, the people's future and hope have been mangled by needless propaganda and violation of the ethical foundation of integrity - the bases of democracy.

Our freedoms from all forms of political manipulations are not guaranteed unless all democratic institutions perform their functions well. But these institutions are unable to do so because there is no independent check on the Presidency's violation of democratic rules.

The malfeasance and gross abuse and barefaced aggression against the electoral laws by president Jonathan and his hirelings is highly proverbial. Any further doubts that TAN's campaigns and president Jonathan acceptance and funding of the group has not blunted the edge of the taunted rule of law?

The absurdity in TAN's campaigns for president Jonathan's reelection is multifarious. Aside, the illegality of the campaigns whose time is premature, the falsehood of president Jonathan outperforming his predecessors, even his equation with the like of Obama, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, among others in TAN's bizarre, comical and desultory advertisement; it is the dramatization of Jonathan's failure to rescue the Chibok girls whilst proceeding to use the same “#” tag and slogan as an anchor for his presidential restoration beyond 2015!

Is anyone conscious of the #BRING BACK JONATHAN 2015 banners donning TAN's campaign venues across the country and its desecration of the struggle to free the Chibok girls held hostage by the Boko Haram militias over the last six months?

Is it not possible for perceptive Nigerians to see through the facade of the wall of deception mounted by the president and the cacophony of voices represented by TAN?

Can't we root out this obscenity that has spiraled, intermittently, with us since the beginning of this Fourth Republic?
It is safe to say that the attempt by TAN and their incredible followers to make a caricature of the nation is propelled by president Jonathan's relentless funding of the roughish and irritable group.

This captures Karl Marx's exposition on materialism; that class interest, greed and hidden motives are the driving forces of vaunting ambition. For as Marx said, 'It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.’
This is one of the clearest exposition of Marx's materialist conception of history since most modern day philosophers agreed that economic factors play a crucial role in the shaping of social, cultural and political life.

Briefly put - there is another anecdotal and ironical angle to TAN. The sponsors of TAN are majorly peopled by Southeast extraction of the country.
Sadly enough, there is no road to Eastern Nigeria! A trip to Anambra State recently to pay the last respect to the Great Agulu, Dr Dora Akunyili invokes the 2012 River Niger horror flood and exploitation of the Eastern people's emotive consciousness.

The death toll from the flooding after heavy rain and the release of water from a dam in Cameroon rose to 70, with some 120,000 people displaced, resulting in some 61,000 quartered in 30 camps across the state.

After spending six hours on the same spot in a stretch of less than 50 metres before River Niger head bridge and overlooking Onitsha, you could see property damage and how human suffering laid bare along the river course before entering the city.

I was struck by the squalor of those forced by poverty to live near River Niger and the shantytown hugging its banks. It was a descent to hell! The misery in all its horror and destitution engulfing countless homes did not sufficiently attract the attention of TAN and president Goodluck Jonathan's administration.

This degree of deprivation which the people are grappling with are the consequences president Jonathan's miss-governance and anti people's policies.
To make the case more harrowing for the denizens, there is already serious squabble over the non-payment of compensation by the government without which construction works on the second Niger Bridge will cease.

Yet, TAN in daily advertisements in virtually all television stations anchored by Chief Zebrudia, continued daily deception by inundates Southeastern people and Nigerians at large with denuding falsehood. This deceit is further justified by the inclusion of Azikiwe and Ebele amongst the leader's name.
Painfully and pitifully, this is the Charlotte and hogwash Eastern Nigeria, and other ethnically blindfolded Nigerians, celebrate as governance. To make matters worse, the TAN campaigns are propelled by dishonest characters, whose sources of stupendous wealth are questionable.

Also, from available evidence, some of the key personalities from the private sector associated with TAN at the highest levels are facing one case of corruption or the other with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This is one of the absurdities of president Goodluck Jonathan's administration that makes a mountain out of the anti-corruption molehill.

There is nothing wrong with president Goodluck Jonathan in seeking to elongate his tenancy in Aso Rock, as long as the Constitution of the Republic allows it.
But everything is wrong when such elongation is prated on deceptive premises; roughish permutations of ethnocentric manipulation, exploitation of the people's emotive weakness, and the oppressive greed of the oligarchs.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/30/tans-fraud-and-president-jonathans-ambition-erasmus-ikhide

NgeneUkwenu:
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has declared that he is not ready to join issues with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the latter’s  decision to tear his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) membership card, on Monday.

Jonathan, who granted an interview to a team of Tribune editors, in Lagos, on Thursday, said that senior citizens must always remember the need to keep Nigeria united even when they have cause to disagree politically.

The president used the occasion of his first interview with a Nigerian media outfit to clear the air on a number of issues, including security, the sanctity of the March 28 and April 11 election dates, expected return of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls and fight against corruption.

He said he was confident of winning the rescheduled elections as none of the other candidates had any plan for the country that could rival his.

President Jonathan stated that Obasanjo remained his father, adding that disagreement should be expected between political children and their father.

When asked to comment on his quarrel with the former president and tell Nigerians exactly what was responsible for the criticisms he (Obasanjo) had launched against him in recent times, Jonathan said: “Obasanjo is a father to me.”

The president said: “First and foremost, Obasanjo is a father to me. By divine providence and the grace of God, I am the President of Nigeria today. It is not by my strength. But God uses human beings to actualise His own blessings on human beings. And He used so many Nigerians, including former President Obasanjo, to play one role or the other for me.

“I became the deputy governor of a state, became the governor, the vice president and president. I have no issues with him, and I really don’t want to join issues with President Obasanjo. I think it is not necessary.”

He, however, cautioned those he called senior citizens to always be mindful of the unity and security of the country whenever they have cause to disagree.

“But I will use this opportunity, because you asked, to just plead with my father that he is a leader, a former president of the country. He has led the country more than anybody — eight years of democratic governance and almost four years of military governance. No other person has that kind of record.

“The stability of this country is critical in terms of the economy of this country. Rating agencies downgrade countries that are going into elections because the feeling is that there would be crisis. When you paint the colour of instability for your own nation, you are doing so much injustice to the country because it affects the economy of the country, not just affecting the country in terms of security and social issues alone. It affects the economy directly. So, I plead with very senior citizens that Nigeria is dear to us; we don’t have any other country than Nigeria.

“So, actions and inactions, or utterances, should be guarded so that we don’t expose our country to the international community as if it is a country in danger, a country that is about to collapse. You are frightening investors, especially those who invest hot cash, to pull out their money from the country and that would affect the stock market and it would affect the economy.

“For one reason or the other, Obasanjo may disagree with me as his first political son. You can even disagree with your own biological children, as a human being, not to talk of disagreeing with your political children. So, he can agree or disagree with me, but the utterances have to be managed in a way that it does not affect the economy and security of this country.”

The president also clarified his stance on the alleged single term pact which he has been accused of breaching by some aggrieved PDP leaders.

He said he never signed any single term pact with anybody.

He stated that his comments in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he met with some Nigerians after his election as president in 2011, were taken out of context to create the impression that he opted for a single tenure.

According to him, he advocated a single term of seven years for executive positions and added a caveat that if the nation agreed to that option, he would not seek re-election, as a sacrifice.

He said that he came to the conclusion of the necessity of a single tenure of office for presidents, having checked the enormity of resources the country commits to electioneering every four years.

He added that the nation also goes through lots of security stress and tension during elections, which could be avoided if the single term option is adopted.

The president stated that it would have been immoral for him to spend 12 years on the seat whereas the constitution would only have preferred seven years.

He said that his critics took out a substantial part of his comments in Addis Ababa to colour his position.

“I added something that people are misquoting. I said that I had won the election then, I used one year to complete (late President) Yar’Adua’s tenure and I had won election for four years. If Nigerians agreed to a single term of seven years, it would not be proper for me to contest. That would mean if I win, I would serve as president for 12 years. I said that people would question that ‘why do you want to serve 12 years and incoming presidents would serve seven years?’ Morally, I cannot defend that.

“So, if the country agrees to a single term of seven years, then I will not contest. I would rather lose so that they would know it’s because of my sacrifice because it is something I believe in. I also believe that the interest of the country is more important to me than my individual interest and I said five years was okay, and that even if I stayed here for 100 years, if I won’t work, I won’t work,” he said.

On how he felt watching Obasanjo destroy his PDP membership card on the television, Jonathan said the incident didn’t have effect on him because the attacks had been coming serially and had become commonplace.

The president, who also spoke on the efforts of his administration to tackle corruption and insecurity, said that corruption could not be fought by merely clamping people to prison.

He denied marginalising the South West, insisting that some persons who did not want the PDP to blossom in the geopolitical zone did their best to block the party’s plan to ensure the emergence of the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the zone.

He stated that his government was systematically refusing making it difficult for anyone to pilfer government’s money through the use of technology, while also ensuring the revival of the railways, building of schools and development of road infrastructure.


http://tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/30070-obasanjo-remains-my-godfather-jonathan

IbnSultaan:
PassingShot Well let me relax n Enjoy dz ur thread

obi4eze:

PassingShot well done sir.
Let's keep telling everyone that cares to listen that GEJ is a fraud of a President and never again will we repeat the mistake.