americanigga:
Recently the vice president pastor yemi Osibanjor accused xpresident Goodluck Jonathan and PDP of not constructing any brown new road in the whole of Nigeria for the six years he was in office.

The reason for this post is to create an avenue for Igbos, Ipodians or Biafran hopefuls, to debunk the vice president's statement and also elinghten other Nigerians who share thesame view as the VP.

Although I personally dislike xpresident Jonathan even before he became the president. I don't just believe Jonathan failed in the aspect of road I believe he failed in all ramification of governance.

But there is one question I always ask, but I have not been able to get a clear cut answer. The question is what did Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan do in the South East in his six years as president that made them to adopt him as their son and keep praising and worshiping him as an hero?

I believe no man is an island of knowledge. There must be something Jonathan did that we don't kow about, but the Igbos know about. I don't believe all Igbos are foolish people to be supporting him if he did not do anything for them.

Let me start this trend by stating the only thing I kow that Jonathan did for the South East: Jonathan lunched the construction of the Second Niger Bridge

ok! Igbos over to you please list the good things Jonanthan did in the South East

MalcoImX:
He helped Stella Oduah bought one car for over N100 million.

spyder880:


http://amazingviewpoints..com.ng/2015/03/enugu-port-harcourt-express-road.html

Deltagiant:
What Goodluck did for SEners and why they like him is more psychological than infrastructural.

1) During his campaign, he made Nigerians understood you could identify as Igbo and still be electable as president. This is what an Igbo, Odili, was afraid to do months before he Goodluck was thrown up.

2) Since after the war, the Igbo was avoided like lepers from taking commanding positions in the military. He ended it in a big way by appointing two Igbo at the same to head the army and the Navy. The one in the army now has the record as the longest serving Army Chief (COAS) in Nigeria. He did exceptionally well in Boko Haram fight even as he took the credit of introducing the first indigenous Armoured personal carrier, Igirigi, to the force.

3) Goodluck recognised Ojukwu more than others before him. He commissioned a statue of the man with his military uniform and Browning rifle strapped to his back. Named an important road after him.

4) He lifted the post war air blockade of the SE to the world by gazzetting Enugu airport as International and making sure that a foreign airline lands DIRECTLY there before he left office.

5) He introduced Innoson technology into the realms of the Nigerian military apparatchik, Air force included.

6)Among other things not mentioned. He has BIG, non pretentious respect for Ndigbo and it was FULLY returned to him.

MonPro:
1.) Jona allowed Igbo businesses to flourish eg Ibeto got his cement license back only for Buhari to remove the license and make dangote a monopolist

2.) For the first time since after the civil war, the east felt like part and parcel of the country. The benin-ore road that leads to their homes was clean up. Reduced the former high number of deaths of easterners on that road. The Abacha's northern government budgetted only 13 milion naira for all the roads in the east. Buhari's fulani regime as a general budgetted 0 naira for all the roads in the East.

3.) The freedom of Information bill which GEJ into law was applauded in the east which is the most liberal and educated part of the country. Without that freedom of information the dictator buhari will be tying people at stakes and shooting them for calling him a dulllard which he truly is.

4.) Gej was loved because the East loved people who loved them. We voted him because hausas will vote a fulani anyday, anytime anyday.So the east has the right to vote easterners anytime anyday.

5.) GEJ also gave Enugu International airport a facelift for the first time in decades. Something ex-military president of fulani extraction can never do.

6.) Gej valued the Igbos while Igbos loved him. We saw Buhari's appointment as military dictator. 99% Hausa/fulani 0% Igbos. Is the same thing not happening now? So why should we have voted a bigot, couldn't hausa/fulani have brought someone less divisive. Didn't the east vote yar adua a fulani?

We have no regret voting against the divisive dullard and we are not afraid of him. He may have the guns, bullet, but he won't live forever but the Igbos and the East will be here for the next 100,000 years.

He remains unpopular in the well educated majority of better south only minority muslims in the south and empty headed christians voted him. The fall of the naira and the crash of the economy have vindicated the educated better south that said 'No' to him.

banki:


Sometimes you should know when to stop
The abacha you hate created ebonyi state
Abachas ptf projects are littered around the wouth east
Jonathan was voted in as president in 2011 from all parts of the country, how come when they didn't vote him again you call them tribalists?
Ibetos licence was returned by yaradua a fulani from katsina
Under whose government was the enugu airport built?
If you had said that he built an airport in aba I will understand, he didn't build any major road so which igbo businesses flourished? Did I here you say innoson?

Deltagiant:
What Goodluck did for SEners and why they like him is more psychological than infrastructural.

1) During his campaign, he made Nigerians understood you could identify as Igbo and still be electable as president. This is what an Igbo, Odili, was afraid to do months before he Goodluck was thrown up.

2) Since after the war, the Igbo was avoided like lepers from taking commanding positions in the military. He ended it in a big way by appointing two Igbo at the same to head the army and the Navy. The one in the army now has the record as the longest serving Army Chief (COAS) in Nigeria. He did exceptionally well in Boko Haram fight even as he took the credit of introducing the first indigenous Armoured personal carrier, Igirigi, to the force.

3) Goodluck recognised Ojukwu more than others before him. He commissioned a statue of the man with his military uniform and Browning rifle strapped to his back. Named an important road after him.

4) He lifted the post war air blockade of the SE to the world by gazzetting Enugu airport as International and making sure that a foreign airline lands DIRECTLY there before he left office.

5) He introduced Innoson technology into the realms of the Nigerian military apparatchik, Air force included.

6)Among other things not mentioned. He has BIG, non pretentious respect for Ndigbo and it was FULLY returned to him.

Akanu Ibiam International Airport: A Letter of Gratitude
http://www.nigerianleadershipcouncil.org/Success-of-Enugu-Airport-Petition.html

A brief history of how it all started.......

Our petition, signed by 2,215 compatriots, was FIRST mailed to President Obasanjo on December 23, 2006. [Here is the petition, http://www.umez.com/Enugu-Airport-Petition.html.] Following the petition, President Obasanjo promised to upgrade Akanu Ibiam Airport to international standard. However, that did not happen before he left office. When he [President Obasanjo] left office, I was contacted by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation (2007), Hon. Senator Anyim Ude, through one of his PRs, Nnanna Anyim Ude, to resubmit the petition. The petition was immediately resubmitted on Jan 16, 2007 to (a) President Yaradua, (b) Nigerian National Assembly, (c) Southeast Representatives in the Nigerian National Assembly and (d) the Governors of the Southeast Nigeria, namely, Abia, Anambra, Benue, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu , Imo, and Kogi.

Following the resubmission, our Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Senator Anyim Ude, among others, who were inspired by the petition, patriotically seized the moment, and met President Yaradua without delay. Thereafter, President Yaradua promised to upgrade the airport to international standard. Once President Yaradua made the promise, we quickly wrote a thank-you-letter to him. Here is that etter: http://www.umez.com/Thanks-to-President-Yaradua.html

Date:2007-11-15
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/archive2/tblnews_Detail.php?id=37254
Yar’Adua okays Enugu airport’s upgrading
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has approved the upgrading of Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu, to an international airport.

The Minister of Transportation, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke said on Tuesday that the President’s action was aimed at alleviating the travails of many businessmen and travellers to the zone.

She said the approval would enable the ministry begin a phased programme of major infrastructural upgrading and developments at the airport.

She expressed the hope that the project could be completed within the next few years.

The minister reiterated her earlier commitment to the completion of the Domestic Terminal building at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport and said the modernizsing and upgrading of infrastructure at the airport remained a top priority of the Musa Yar’adua administration.

On the Port Harcourt Omagwa International Airport, Mrs. Alison-Madueke has directed the contractors working on the runway, and the lighting system, to expedite action to ensure that the Airport is opened to commercial traffic before Christmas this year

Deltagiant:
What Goodluck did for SEners and why they like him is more psychological than infrastructural.

1) During his campaign, he made Nigerians understood you could identify as Igbo and still be electable as president. This is what an Igbo, Odili, was afraid to do months before he Goodluck was thrown up.

2) Since after the war, the Igbo was avoided like lepers from taking commanding positions in the military. He ended it in a big way by appointing two Igbo at the same to head the army and the Navy. The one in the army now has the record as the longest serving Army Chief (COAS) in Nigeria. He did exceptionally well in Boko Haram fight even as he took the credit of introducing the first indigenous Armoured personal carrier, Igirigi, to the force.

3) Goodluck recognised Ojukwu more than others before him. He commissioned a statue of the man with his military uniform and Browning rifle strapped to his back. Named an important road after him.

4) He lifted the post war air blockade of the SE to the world by gazzetting Enugu airport as International and making sure that a foreign airline lands DIRECTLY there before he left office.

5) He introduced Innoson technology into the realms of the Nigerian military apparatchik, Air force included.

6)Among other things not mentioned. He has BIG, non pretentious respect for Ndigbo and it was FULLY returned to him.

MonPro:
1.) Jona allowed Igbo businesses to flourish eg Ibeto got his cement license back only for Buhari to remove the license and make dangote a monopolist
2.) For the first time since after the civil war, the east felt like part and parcel of the country. The benin-ore road that leads to their homes was clean up. Reduced the former high number of deaths of easterners on that road. The Abacha's northern government budgetted only 13 milion naira for all the roads in the east. Buhari's fulani regime as a general budgetted 0 naira for all the roads in the East.
3.) The freedom of Information bill which GEJ into law was applauded in the east which is the most liberal and educated part of the country. Without that freedom of information the dictator buhari will be tying people at stakes and shooting them for calling him a dulllard which he truly is.
4.) Gej was loved because the East loved people who loved them. We voted him because hausas will vote a fulani anyday, anytime anyday.So the east has the right to vote easterners anytime anyday.
5.) GEJ also gave Enugu International airport a facelift for the first time in decades. Something ex-military president of fulani extraction can never do.
6.) Gej valued the Igbos while Igbos loved him. We saw Buhari's appointment as military dictator. 99% Hausa/fulani 0% Igbos. Is the same thing not happening now? So why should we have voted a bigot-an open bigot for that matter, couldn't hausa/fulani have brought someone less divisive. Didn't the east vote yar adua a fulani?
We have no regret voting against the divisive dullard and we are not afraid of him. He may have the guns, bullet, but he won't live forever but the Igbos and the East will be here for the next 100,000 years.
He remains unpopular in the well educated majority of better south only minority muslims in the south and empty headed christians voted him. The fall of the naira and the crash of the economy have vindicated the educated better south that said 'No' to him.

banki:


Sometimes you should know when to stop
The abacha you hate created ebonyi state
Abachas ptf projects are littered around the wouth east
Jonathan was voted in as president in 2011 from all parts of the country, how come when they didn't vote him again you call them tribalists?
Ibetos licence was returned by yaradua a fulani from katsina
Under whose government was the enugu airport built?
If you had said that he built an airport in aba I will understand, he didn't build any major road so which igbo businesses flourished? Did I here you say innoson?

brightmexy:
Sorry, the north didn't vote Jonathan in 2011. The north does not vote anybody who is not from north unless there's no candidate from the north contesting.

obailala:
The truth of the matter is that Igbos supported Jonathan not because of any particular good act of his, all the lists being mentioned on this thread (like the one quoted) are pure bulls**t. The Igbo love for Jonathan was born indirectly out of a hatred for Buhari and the fact that the north desparately wanted push him aside and sieze power after the death of Yaradua. The special hatred for Buhari wasn't there when Buhari contested against OBJ and Yaradua, the hatred started when he got the support of the entire north to take power from a political neophyte Jonathan. The disgust for this act of the north pushed Igbos to love Jonathan UNCONDITIONALLY.

Quote me anywhere!

Deltagiant:
What Goodluck did for SEners and why they like him is more psychological than infrastructural.

1) During his campaign, he made Nigerians understood you could identify as Igbo and still be electable as president. This is what an Igbo, Odili, was afraid to do months before he Goodluck was thrown up.

2) Since after the war, the Igbo was avoided like lepers from taking commanding positions in the military. He ended it in a big way by appointing two Igbo at the same to head the army and the Navy. The one in the army now has the record as the longest serving Army Chief (COAS) in Nigeria. He did exceptionally well in Boko Haram fight even as he took the credit of introducing the first indigenous Armoured personal carrier, Igirigi, to the force.

3) Goodluck recognised Ojukwu more than others before him. He commissioned a statue of the man with his military uniform and Browning rifle strapped to his back. Named an important road after him.

4) He lifted the post war air blockade of the SE to the world by gazzetting Enugu airport as International and making sure that a foreign airline lands DIRECTLY there before he left office.

5) He introduced Innoson technology into the realms of the Nigerian military apparatchik, Air force included.

6)Among other things not mentioned. He has BIG, non pretentious respect for Ndigbo and it was FULLY returned to him.

MonPro:


Oga, you are talking trash. Jona brought us close after 40 years of sideline and we Igbos loved. Past presidents have continued the war against the east by refusing to develop it, It very 'nigerian' and 'patriotic' to take allocation that belong to the east and use it to develop the north and the SW. Buhari made it clear he was coming to continue the tradition. We read Nyako's morbidly anti-Eastern letter, did buhari ever condemn Nyako. We even saw the bigot nyako on one of Buhari's campaign after he was chastized by Jona for his inflammatory letter.

You can spin it anyhow you want, it's your business, the truth stares you in the face.