₦airaland Forum

midolian:
How did Jonathan Presidency even happen?

Maybe its God's own way of making us know Abacha was a good man.

blackestboy:
smh... I thought you guys had done the worst by "propagandering" him out of office...

Why all the cooked scenarios? He was a bad President... Yes. But he's gone!

Bolaadu:
Tinbu is a politician with wisdom foreknowledge and experience, Ribadu can not win d election dat year.

Muhammad1988:
"Nothing good comes easy". to me i see no any confusion with regards to Buhari's regime because you will only have a successful country under the presence of three criterials (1) you must work for it! (2) patience (3) support. So if the above mentioned are factors that affects the rate of progression of a country, why don't we nigerians put them into practice?. Buhari is a man of peace, integrity, unity and honesty, a man who is willing to transform and bring nigeria to success, a man who's ambition is to bring nigeria together irrespective of religion or tribe, a man with determination of restoring back the qualities of nigeria, why don't we nigerians give him our maximum support and prayers so as to enable him complete his long time mission?.

Hiddentreasure1:
. So easy to say so u ve dis in hrt n u fail to put it in practie during d last admin who is fooling who lets stop all dis hypocrisy if only wat u jst wrote was practiced by all we wont b where we r n we wont trade blames at least hope dis ur comment will still b same wen d president leaves d seat tomoro. Am nt a supporter af any party but jst airing my view based on d trend dis days

OrlandoOwoh:
Jonathan was a chapter in our political history that shouldn't have been written.

divinehand2003:
GEJ was a big failure for all I care. Having a PhD doesn't automatically transform you into being a great president. Leadership needs experience and GEJ lacked the much needed experience for leadership hence his gross failure. We saw a president that wasn't in charge of his administration. It's appalling.

Adaure4ever:
I disagree, GEJ tenure may have had its faults but it was not as confused as this present Buhari regime.

mukhcech:
You know why this thing wasnt practicable during the last admin.
1. GEJ was a drunk: A mad man is better than someone that drinks or a drunkard.
2. Surrounded himself with vampires esp. women
3. Lacks even the basic quality of a leader.

Adaure4ever:
I disagree, GEJ tenure may have had its faults but it was not as confused as this present Buhari regime.

tanteta:
..... Must you guys go to this extent just to discredit an ex-president because GEJ was never a candidate of choice for the s west... He only reasoned with the poorer masses whom before his time never believed that government was for all and you claimed he sidelined the west. It was so painfull to take when he succeeded in bridging the gap between the poor and the rich by empowering common Nigerians other than the selected "few". He made sure that fuel scarcity became a thing of the past and that the so called common heritage was beneficial to all irrespective of religion or geopolitical zone. For the first time in a long while meritocrisy was beginning to outshine mediocrity and the so called owners of the country began to see a resemblance of what they dreaded. You guys in a bid to wrestle Power from him made good of your promises and your machinaries went into action doing what ever it takes and caution was thrown to the winds. Here power is back with the masters but the damage is unprecidented and too big to cover up with ur media, now someone must take the fall for it but who is better positioned to take the fall other than the ex while Otuoke minority. All the outrageous promises, the coming of your messiah, the magician with his anionted term. well they are here but I must say that it nine months already and the meteric reading is yet to register your presence even after your businesses are back and running. Huss my friends hush, you can not eat your cake and have it at the same time. Remember this saying that you can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time but you can not fool all of the people all of the time......

omonnakoda:
Someone needs to drill the truth into your bowels

Adaure4ever:
I disagree, GEJ tenure may have had its faults but it was not as confused as this present Buhari regime.

midolian:
How did Jonathan Presidency even happen?

Maybe its God's own way of making us know Abacha was a good man.

BushidoBlue:
Let me reply your epistle with another recent one, in fact from yesterday 20 February 2016.



Blame Jonathan
ON FEBRUARY 21, 20161:30


By Obi Nwakanma



Last week, Vanguard reported a curious drama during the State House briefing after the meeting of the National Executive Council, between State House Correspondents and the Minister for Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed.

It seemed like the Buhari cabinet did not have much to talk about. There is of course much going on. Boko Haram is still killing and pillaging. The Chibok girls are as good as lost.


To remove the sheen from that fact, the President was reported a while ago to have pointedly told parents of the girls of Chibok to go home as there’s not much else he could do for them. Former President Goodluck Jonathan Well, that’s very disappointing because President Buhari and the APC made it a cardinal point of their election promise to return the kidnapped girls of Chibok to their families as soon as they are installed in government. Not to return the girls will amount to a breach of trust and a failure to fulfil a cardinal electoral promise.




Goodluck Jonathan lost Nigerians, and began to lose his re-election following the massive international outrage that accompanied the kidnap of the Chibok girls. The Jonathan administration was vehemently criticized for its slow and half-hearted response, and for its inability to mount a strategic rescue operation to get back the girls from their captor.


The loss of the Chibok girls was Jonathan’s greatest undoing, and it is actually in my thinking right after all, that for that alone, he deserved to lose the presidency. Right under his watch over two hundred young women disappeared from a boarding school. This was more than a security lapse, it was a clear failure of national security. It required a great operational capability to move that number of people through many borders, and it needed only a decayed or frayed security system to permit that. Because the president failed to protect these citizens of Nigeria to whom he had sworn both allegiance and service, he did not deserve to be returned to his job as president.



In actual fact, Jonathan’s slow response, and the campaign mounted in protest grew to frenzy. In the end, he went to the National Assembly and secured $1 billion in supplementary funding for his national security operations to fight Boko Haram, and mandated that operation on his National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.




If truth must be told, by the time of the elections, Jonathan’s new strategy had put Boko Haram on the run, degraded its operations, and the tide had turned very clearly. Another three to six months of sustained action at the level may have seen the end of Boko Haram by now. But it was already too late for Jonathan’s government. He had waited far too late in the day to mount a serious counter offensive against the Islamic insurgency. It was too little too late.




But there were visible signs of an impending Boko Haram defeat at the eve of Jonathan’s departure, on the strength of which Mr. Lai Mohammed, the Minister for Information, and Chief spokesman of this administration, no sooner in the life of the current administration was almost too quick on the draw to claim victory and the defeat of Boko Haram. Lai Mohammed was quoted at various times to say that Boko Haram, “technically” had been defeated and “degraded.”




But six months later, Boko Haram is still there, and under the watch of this administration, has mounted even bolder, more ferocious attack, and on a greater killing spree than was possible under Jonathan. The Buhari administration has thus far failed in its promise to defeat Boko Haram. The significant push-back achieved at the twilight of the Jonathan administration has been lost. There is no clear-cut policy on the insurgency by this president except to move his military headquarters and put more boots on the ground. But an insurgency such as this requires a different strategy of counter-insurgency beyond traditional warfare techniques, and Jonathan’s last strategy before his electoral defeat had come to understand this.


Meanwhile, the Buhari administration is busy conducting a killing spree of unarmed Biafran protesters in the South East of Nigeria, while Boko Haram insurgents are running wild in the North East. Something clearly doesn’t add up here, but back to Lai Mohammed. His critics have dubbed him “Liar Mohammed,” an unkind cut from his name, “Lai.” I have always liked the name, “Lai” because a great friend of mine from the University was called “Lai” and he was a great guy. Besides, I will not go so far as calling a Nigerian minister, “Liar,” but it often takes a great alchemist of untruths and distortions, to do the work of pure propaganda, as Mr. Mohammed has often done for the current administration.




His strategy when everything fails is, “blame Jonathan.” So, in this last briefing of journalists, only two items were lined up: his attempt to explain the president’s numerous foreign travels, which has recently come under severe criticism, and his need to blame Jonathan for everything else.




Reporters wanted to know a bit more – the radical slide of the naira, Boko Haram, the budget-padding scandal, the administration’s economic projections. But Lai Mohammed was in his element. Blame Jonathan. To justify the president’s increasingly expensive and wasteful foreign trips, the minister said, “You cannot run an economy by being isolated.”




True enough. But that is why we have a Foreign Ministry and a foreign minister. Trained diplomats would not tell the Telegraph in London as the President recently did that “Nigerians are mostly criminals.” Such a statement is not meant to inspire or invite investor confidence. But what did Lai say? Blame Jonathan.




Buhari has to travel because Nigeria had a pariah status under Jonathan. That is a lie, minister. Nigeria’s international standing actually improved under Jonathan. But this blame Jonathan game is getting old and worrisome. Budget goes missing, blame Jonathan. Buhari travels, blame Jonathan; Boko Haram continues to strike, blame Jonathan; Naira crashes, blame Jonathan; Economy worsens, blame Jonathan.





One truth is clear: Jonathan revived the comatose railways, rebuilt long run-down federal highways, re-equipped the Armed Services, built twelve new Universities, and expanded the middle class. Above all, his greatest achievement was that Nigerians felt true liberty and freedom: no Nigerian lived in fear of government’s persecution, and he brought to an end, the spate of assassinations and kidnappings that marked the height of national insecurity before him. He wasn’t without achievement.




His greatest undoing was the kidnap of the Chibok girls and his slow response to it. Lai Mohammed’s attempt to place the current failures of the current administration on Jonathan is both laughable and tragic. What is increasingly clear is that the APC had no plan to govern. Buhari’s first steps in government was all wrong: he started by alienating an entire segment of Nigerians, and he was too slow to respond to the realities of the crisis in the international oil market.







Rather than pick up from Jonathan running, he crawled for six months, and seemed startled and confused by his own electoral victory. That period of inaction for six months when he failed to organize his government, stanch leakages, and establish necessary reforms has led to the current crisis with the Naira in a freefall, and the economy leaking badly like a wicker basket. Buhari’s economic policy that limited the circulation of money has led to a crisis of production and distribution.






When he finally presented his budget, it became clear to Nigerians that this president is the one who really has no clue what running a contemporary nation is about in the 21st century, and the Tsunami that is about to hit him if he fails to reposition his priorities. He is already nine months in office, and he is still blaming Jonathan. Come three years hence this government will still be blaming Jonathan. Blame Jonathan is, it seems, the Buhari administration’s most consistent domestic policy. O ma bloody se o!


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/612603/

midolian:
well said bro! We must not stop thanking God for sending the otueke clown packing. Its just sad that some has refused to see what a blessing baba is to us compared to jona cos they are too blind to see.

I am good bro..its been a while. Hope u are good too

Hiddentreasure1:
. Hmmmmmm am short of words at dis comment it wont do u any good commenting like dis if u were contesting for any post in naija i wont even want to ve PVC is really shameful with ur comment u are nt diferent n u r nt any better so stop commenting trash like dis if u dnt ve any meaningful thing to type.

mukhcech:
Sorry em not contesting for any post. not before, not now, not tomorrow. And I am different-atleast I dont drink. And if u do em sorry. And pls do stay out of any leadership role. thank you.

ChukaLupin:
Ah baba. 100k for $1?
Olorun Ma je.

Adaure4ever:
I disagree, GEJ tenure may have had its faults but it was not as confused as this present Buhari regime.

Hiddentreasure1:
. Hahahahahahhahahaha n who told u am interested in d leadership role i jst pity u instead of ranting n wailing online abt thinhgs dat r nt tru pls put dat effort n energy to ensure ur villiage gets developed n by extention d whole nigeria.

peacengine:
Haven read the long epistle all I noticed was obvious bad blood against the former president, my question is what made him a disaster? Was it his emergence as the first South South person to become president or what? The OP did not give any reason for this conclusion.

It is obvious that these people are determined to ruin Fmr President Jonathan's reputation, even after using this same tactics to unseat him among their people(N&SW). I think this will be their only agenda until 2019.

Despite their failure in passing the 2016 budget of yams and eba, the stealing of the budget, the discovery of rent payment in Aso rock and other such anomalies in the budget, they refuse to hide their head in shame. People will understand the real meaning of a disastrous government soon, continue.

Ecoterrorism:
where have you been my good friend? Did you get tired blaming Gej or you took some time off. Welcome back.

@topic Gej presidency is now a thing of yesterday that his failings should not be wished away rather we should make sure that we don't succumb to some of our political leaders shortcomings and glorify it as achievement. Grj is a man and not above his failings but How well has Buhari learnt from Gej mistakes because we the masses are seeing failure from all corners in this administration

midolian:
lol..Ecoterrorist. Thanks

By "we the masses", you mean?

SexyKaycee:
Op you're quite daft sorry to say and I see you've run out of steam.

We all know Jonathan was a mistake and is Lucifer in the flesh, now that the Messiah Buhari has come in have things improved?

Have the girls been found?

Has the naira improved?

Has standard if living shot up?

Do we still have freedom of speech and association?

Has security improved?

If the answers to all this is no and you're still here blaming Jonathan then you're not only daft but also a fool who will be led to the slaughter soon.

Just imagine the audacity, blaming a man one year out of office, criticizing a man who isn't even opposing you anymore.

Your party is a year in office and you're still campaigning?! What rubbish is that?

Upon all Jonathan's "idiocy" we never experienced things this bad, he never blamed yaradua or OBJ, why must yours be different? Can't you take responsibility for once?

If you have evidence arrest and try Jonathan, but if you don't then shut the hell up and face your 4 years

BushidoBlue:
[size=18pt]Mark my words, one day APC will blame Nigerians for voting them into power.[/size]

fortune1968:
Jonah has destroyed everything Nigeria .buhari will surely find things difficult because it is easier to destroy than to build
this is a fact .but the disgruntled eastern people are only suffering from hate paralysis they have subjected themselves .Buhari is enjoying the goodwill of the majority .Haters can commit suicide !