How Ministers, Governors Sabotaged Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan etched his name in gold in history books when he called president-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd) on March 31, to congratulate him even before the result of the presidential election had been completely collated and the winner declared by the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC).

But while it would appear to all that President Jonathan has already moved on after conceding defeat, LEADERSHIP Sunday can authoritatively report that he is nursing the sting of betrayal by his close allies, which led to his loss at the polls.

According to reliable presidency sources, beyond the pain of losing out, he is disappointed that despite assurances from his cabinet members and other trusted political appointees as well as high ranking officials of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that they had vigorously campaigned and sold his achievements to the people and were sure from feelers they were receiving that he would be re-elected, it turned out that they had in fact, not campaigned for him as they made it seem.

The president, it was gathered is particularly peeved by the action of some governors of Northern and North-Central states where he suffered the worst defeat.

Of the 19 states in the north, the PDP, the president’s party only won the presidential election in Plateau, Nasarawa and Taraba.

LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that the sum of N500million was given as campaign fund to each state but those who the funds were entrusted to, rather than use the money for the purpose it was meant, held on to it. The money was disbursed through PDP-led state governors and cabinet ministers or political appointees in opposition-led states.

[b]In Ondo State for instance, LEADERSHIP gathered that the money was disbursed through one of the principal presidency officials from the state but as at night fall on the election eve, the official was yet to deliver the money to the state governor for the campaigns. The leadership of the PDP in the state, it was learnt, resorted to calling managers of banks in the state late in the night on the eve of the presidential election to ask for funds but could only get very little, by which time there wasn’t enough time to reach out to a large number of electorate in the state.

A similar scenario reportedly played out in Oyo State where a minister from the state who was entrusted with the campaign funds allegedly held onto the money. In Kogi State where the PDP also lost out in the presidential election, LEADERSHIP sources said money for the election was also diverted to other uses such as payment of debts, hence the abysmal result the party got in the state.

The abysmal performance of the party in Benue, Bauchi and Kano states, where the PDP has two governors, a Senate president, national chairman of the party and three cabinet ministers, Gabriel Suswam, Isa Yuguda, David Mark, Adamu Muazu, Bala Mohammed, Ibrahim Shekarau and Aminu Wali, respectively, but could not garner votes for the president, was also said to have drawn his ire.

Our source said the president despite having received security reports that a high ranking official of the party was allegedly covertly working for the opposition was particularly annoyed that he had trusted the said official and waved the reports.

Sources in Kaduna State where the vice president, Namadi Sambo hails from and where there is a PDP government in charge, also informed LEADERSHIP Sunday that in one of the local governments in Southern Kaduna, only N100,000 was allotted to two polling units in one of the wards with a voting population of over 1,000 people in sharp contrast with the situation in some local governments in Edo State, where eligible voters with Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) were given N2000 each to vote for the party, hence the success recorded.

Recall that few days before the election, LEADERSHIP Sunday’s sister publication, LEADERSHIP, had exclusively reported that allegations of embezzlement and diversion of campaign funds were rife in the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO).

According to the report, coordinators of some of President Jonathan’s campaign groups as well as state and zonal coordinators were taking steps to ensure that they did not lose out completely, in the event that he does not win. LEADERSHIP’s investigations in Abuja revealed that the coordinators, rather than use the money for campaigns, had been scouting the Abuja property market with dollars, acquiring choice property. The campaigners, it was gathered, rather than use the money for the purpose it is meant, have resorted to investing the money in property, so that in the event that their candidate does not emerge, they would have something to fall back on.

Real estate agents privy to the development told LEADERSHIP Sunday that since the campaigns began and particularly after the postponement of the elections, there had been an upswing in the number of persons looking to buy property and most of them who usually pay in dollars had been linked to the campaign.

Recall also that about two weeks before the presidential and National Assembly election, there was a free-for-all among some PDP officials in Ogun State, following the failure of those entrusted with the money to release same to campaign coordinators across the state. It was gathered that the campaign coordinators suspected foul play when the money which was to be shared among 708 of them was not, over claims that it was yet to be paid into a certain designated bank account.

Similarly, another report had it that a former governor deeply involved in President Jonathan’s re-election campaign had rather than use money given to him for campaign, deposited it in a bank for it to yield interest and possibly remain there till after the election, after which it will be forgotten and he would convert it to personal use.

Sources within the president’s campaign organisation, said such funds were being used by those they were entrusted with as they pleased and that the situation had compelled the president to personally take charge of his campaign especially in the Northern and South-Western parts of the country.

At the time of the report, a high ranking member of the campaign organisation had confirmed to LEADERSHIP that the headquarters of the campaign organisation was in the know of the development.

“State coordinators are responsible for mobilising and organising campaign rallies in their respective states while zonal coordinators do same for zonal campaigns and when people from the headquarters attend such rallies, they take note of the lapses in planning for further action. The money for such organisation and mobilisation is disbursed by the PDPPCO.[/b]

“It has come to the knowledge of the campaign organisation that some coordinators have been telling party members that the money given to them is not sufficient to do what they expect of them but this is not true. They have been given adequate funds. However, the matter cannot be handled now till after the election when the coordinators would be required to retire their spending. The focus right now is on the election,” he said.

It was further gathered that while collation of results was on-going on March 31, after the result of Delta State was presented and it became imminent that Jonathan had lost out, as results from Sokoto, Borno and Yobe were still being expected, some allies of Jonathan met him at the Presidential Villa, where they reportedly prevailed on him to stop further collation and announcement of the results.

While the desperadoes were trying frantically to make Jonathan see reason why he should not accept the outcome of the poll, people on the other divide, led by former head of state, Gen Abdulsalam Abubakar, who were for peace urged Jonathan not to allow the moment of making history slip by.

The president eventually, the source said, rebuffed them saying after failing to convince people to vote for him, they were now suggesting ideas that would set the country on fire.

Following the president’s refusal to play ball, his allies who by now had realised that they would also lose out if he is not re-elected, immediately reached out to the party’s representatives at the collation centre, Dr. Bello Fadile, who is also a director in the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) and former minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, following which Orubebe disrupted collation of results for several minutes, citing INEC’s refusal to attend to a protest by the PDP over results from some Northern states whereas the commission had set up a committee to investigate allegations against the party in Rivers State.

Jonathan, our sources said, called and ordered Orubebe to desist from further disrupting the collation process, failing which he would be whisked out by security operatives, which explains why Orubebe who had earlier rebuffed all entreaties to retreat from the podium, suddenly went back to his seat and remained calm for the rest of the exercise.

The source said that following the development, the president had directed that certain members of the party including governors of some Northern states should not be allowed access to him for now, “and that is why it was only governors of South-East and South-West states that paid him a visit on Monday. The only Northern Governor on the entourage was the Plateau governor. The party won in his state.”

Meanwhile, governors, states chairmen and governorship candidates of the party have been strategising on how to win the governorship and state assembly elections this Saturday. They met at the national headquarters of the party in Abuja, on Friday.


SOURCE:http://leadership.ng/news/423130/how-ministers-governors-sabotaged-jonathan

Wetin make we do, blame those when chop the money or thank Jonathan when carry our money take campaign?

Jonathan did not deserve to win re election. Spending that stupendous amount of money and yet losing to the opposition shows how much the people wanted change.

Your money can't buy our vote..the will of God and the people supersedes your plans towards Nigeria.

If I were Goodluck the remaining weeks will be used to make life hell for the likes of Muazu, and all those without immunity who ate and cleaned mouth.

EFCC should be used for this.

When you are destined to fail, you just are!

bokohalal:
Jonathan did not deserve to win re election. Spending that stupendous amount of money and yet losing to the opposition shows how much the people wanted change.

If you believe the APC never enticed electorates with money, then you can believe anything.

Jonathan's case got sour because power must return to the north, Incase you did not read the report, the northern governors or senators who are supposed to disburse the ( pocket infrastructure ) money held on to the money in some case some working against the party so as to give victory to the opposition ( the man from their region ).

So you get the gist now? Oh yes and lots of people really wanted the "change" now we have it

Wetin concern me.

brownlord:


If you believe the APC never enticed electorates with money, then you can believe anything.

Jonathan's case got sour because power must return to the north, Incase you did not read the report, the northern governors or senators who are supposed to disburse the ( pocket infrastructure ) money held on to the money in some case some working against the party so as to give victory to the opposition ( the man from their region ).

So you get the gist now? Oh yes and lots of people really wanted the "change" now we have it

The report covered many parts of the country, not just the north.


The money tactics failed.

brownlord:


If you believe the APC never enticed electorates with money, then you can believe anything.

Jonathan's case got sour because power must return to the north, Incase you did not read the report, the northern governors or senators who are supposed to disburse the ( pocket infrastructure ) money held on to the money in some case some working against the party so as to give victory to the opposition ( the man from their region ).

So you get the gist now? Oh yes and lots of people really wanted the "change" now we have it

One would have expected the opposition to induce the people to vote for them. If the ruling party had to break the bank to stay in power they did not deserve to be re-elected.
If Jonathan had worked he would have won.
If Jonathan had fought corruption he would have won.
If Jonathan had fought Bokoharam he would have won.
If Jonathan had united Nigerians he would have won.

The PDP Campaign coordinators knew for a fact that Jonathan was a bad product which nobody wants to buy

Myriads of Opinion Polls adduced to this fact but Jonathanians were adamant and very obstinate to see the impending catastrophe

Where are those crying wolf of how Jega collaborated with the SW to rig the election?

Even his own trusted allies left him in the dust.

He even went from sharing naira to sharing dollars.

Which kain picture be dat?

Noisemakers

Watch as the useless APC puts Nigeria back into the violence and anarchy we narrowly escaped with their unending propaganda.

Hehehe. So what we supposed to do with this

IMHO, nobody sabotaged Jonathan's re-election, he did so himself.

What the hell was he thinking when he retained Aba Moro against popular opinion??

What the hell was he thinking when he enlisted FFK as the spokesman of GJCO??

What was he thinking when he made Kashamu the Leader of the party in the SW??

What was he thinking when he made Ahmadu Ali the Chairman of the CO??

What was he thinking when he allowed his wife rain insults on the region with the largest voter population in the country??


Jonathan surrounded himself with the scum of Nigerian politicosphere and when it eventually rained, the umbrella simply couldn't withstand the torrent. He did himself in politically, period.

This should serve as big lesson to him rather than use his 6 yrs and serve people well and in return get massive votes you depends on certain thieves to bring you votes while they are only interested on what they will gain. Next time do the good thing and serve people right.

You don't need to spend a lot to campaign if you've performed since you came to office(6 years)....so with due respect Sir,you are not needed in government anymore...thanks for allowing true democracy

Remember that Amechi said 5 pdp governors held meeting with them then

brownlord:
Wetin make we do, blame those when chop the money or thank Jonathan when carry our money take campaign?

Even APC shared money from the states they control, so it's not Jonathan and the PDP alone. Besides, most of funds used for Jonathan's campaign were gotten from the PDP Presidential campaign fund raiser organized prior to the election.

otokx:
If I were Goodluck the remaining weeks will be used to make life hell for the likes of Muazu, and all those without immunity who ate and cleaned mouth.
EFCC should be used for this.

He won't do anything other than sob. Stealing is not corruption, afterall!

U go blame them, gej show nigerians that he s a walking atm machine. Even me go chop my share and still vote for change

Summary?

It's too early for this writeup.

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Kai! 500 million what? So much money spent without good result. Jona,in your next world,make friends with the right thinking people like me.

Thatz politricks for any1

Those saboteurs don't know that they are the greatest losers in that election.
Jonathan has been the President of Nigeria for almost 6yrs, a feat which most of them can hardly achieve again.
Jonathan has even capped his achievements in life by conceding defeat and earning himself a respectable place in history and in international politics. So, the big losers are the saboteurs!

He surrounded himself wiv Awon Goons Toh Bad gan!

Sweetguy25:
Which kain picture be dat?

Berem, make i borrow your name joor.... the picture is that of Jonathanesse... u no see tiro , pancake and lipstick... brazilian hair dey under bowler hat..... PEJ forgot to give him the ladies fan

This Jonah make up artist must hate am gan!

Sooroptimist1:
The PDP Campaign coordinators knew for a fact that Jonathan was a bad product which nobody wants to buy

Myriads of Opinion Polls adduced to this fact but Jonathanians were adamant and very obstinate to see the impending catastrophe

That's not true. They saw no reason to "waste" the money entrusted to them for campaign and mobilisation because of the belief that Jonathan would use his presidential powers to "win" the elction by all means due to his desperation in the last few weeks leading to the polls. They thought they could win...Campaign or no campaign.

GEJ actually wanted to win at all cost, but he conceded defeat obviously to disappoint his lazy and corrupt handlers that sat idly to reap from where they failed to sow, and who tend to benefit more from his re-election than him (the president himself).

Electricity alone would have done magic for him

Gej should have allowed another person in the PDP to run instead of himself. He had consented to run for only one term but since he knew there was No written agreement he reneged. That decision haunted him in the long run.