Cyberterror:
Jonathan lost due to his total failure in all areas of governance. He was a national and global embarrassment. I hope this media washing is not an attempt by PDP to bring him back in 2023? They will fail woefully.

Cyberterror:
Jonathan lost due to his total failure in all areas of governance. He was a national and global embarrassment. I hope this media washing is not an attempt by PDP to bring him back in 2023? They will fail woefully.

shehuolayinka:
Moses Ochonu, a Nigerian United States based academic, historian, author and professor of African History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee says Former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2011 election as a a powerful, well-funded ethnic coalition that did not have to contend with a counterbalancing ethnic coalition on GEJ’s side.

Ochonu in a post shared on his Facebook page said all Nigerian politics is ethnic in nature. Jonathan did come from a major ethnic group with sufficient political clout to bully or blackmail the other major ethnic blocs to back him.

He also said the reason Nigerians have not been seeing public outcry like those visible during the Jonathan government was because those who participated in the ethnic coalition and civic effort that ousted Jonathan in 2015 are all now formally or informally embedded in this regime and are benefiting from it.

His post read, Jonathan was a weak and ineffective leader, but Buhari is ten times worse, so in retrospect we now understand the real reason Jonathan faced the wrath of civil society and subsequently lost power while Buhari, who has effectively destroyed Nigeria as a viable nation, has not faced a civil uprising.

Jonathan did not lose power because of his poor performance. Rather, he lost power mainly because of a powerful, well-funded ethnic coalition that did not have to contend with a counterbalancing ethnic coalition on GEJ’s side. A smaller factor was GEJ’s naivety regarding the overarching role ethnicity plays in Nigerian politics. Let me explain:

All Nigerian politics is ethnic in nature. Jonathan did come from a major ethnic group with sufficient political clout to bully or blackmail the other major ethnic blocs to back him. The Southeast, which backed him, did not possess the numbers, the agenda-setting clout of the media (southwest), or the ability to threaten and unleash nihilist mass violence to blackmail political interlocutors into backing down (north). The only instrument of deterrence, political negotiation, and blackmail GEJ’s natal Niger Delta had was oil militancy, but the Amnesty, which began with Yar’Adua and which GEJ, as vice president, oversaw, had taken that leverage away.

READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/09/05/jonathan-lost-2011-election-because-of-a-powerful-well-funded-ethnic-coalition/

Cyberterror:
Jonathan lost due to his total failure in all areas of governance. He was a national and global embarrassment. I hope this media washing is not an attempt by PDP to bring him back in 2023? They will fail woefully.

Esseite:


If Jonathan was all you portrayed.. Buhari does not even have a single word to describe him.. buhari is someone you respond with "mtcheeew".. "failure" is an accolade to him.