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MEMORANDUM

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN OF NIGERIA




Date: December 26, 2013

To: President Goodluck Jonathan

From: Ozodi Osuji, PhD

Subject: The Restructuring of Nigeria to make it work and survive

Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, the President of Nigeria, I will begin this open letter to you by asking you this question: what would you like to be your legacy; what would you like folks, say, a hundred years from today, to remember you for? What have you done so far in office that you think that when your name is mentioned people will associate it with that accomplishment?

Mr. Jonathan, I must tell you that when your name is mentioned no accomplishment comes to my mind. What comes to my mind is that you have supervised the most corrupt political establishment in Nigeria.

The Nigerian government, we all know, is corrupt; that corruption did not begin under your administration; it has always been there, at least, since Nigeria gained her so-called independence from Britain in 1960.

We all know that in Nigeria folks seem to construe political offices as from which they steal.  Many Nigerians run for political office not for any specific agenda of what they are going to do for their country but because of their intention to steal as much money as is possible from the country.

Nigerians secure political jobs at Abuja, at state and local governments and in a few years are filthy rich. To the best of my knowledge Nigerians go into politics to get rich, not for public service; indeed, many of them cannot even define what constitutes social interest!

President John F. Kennedy asked Americans to ask what they can do for their country, not what their country can do for them.

In Nigeria, on the other hand, folks do not seem to ask what they can do for their country; they seem to ask for how they can best steal from it.

I do not need to belabor the obvious, for most Nigerians know that their politicians are thieves. So, my question to you, Mr. Jonathan, is this: is this really how you would like to be remembered, as the “Chief thief” of Nigeria, as the chap who supervised the massive looting of Nigeria?

Is that really good enough reputation for you?  Is that what life means to you, that you lived and accomplished nothing other than to enable kleptocrats to loot your country?

Do you really get up in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see, the chief thief of Nigeria?  If you do I must tell you that in my opinion you are less than my dog; at least, my dog knows when people around it are unhappy and does something to cheer them up; my dog has social utility whereas you do not seem to have any?

In the past Nigeria was ruled by questionably educated leaders, such as Obasanjo. We are told that you are different; we are told that you are a well-educated chap; indeed, we are told that you have a doctorate degree and were a university lecturer (?).

If that is the case, one could be pardoned if one believed that an educated man should know that political leaders are judged by what they did for their countries.

In America when one mentions names like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan etc. most Americans will tell one what they did for their country, what makes them proud of them.

In Britain, the people will tell you how proud they are of Winston Churchill; they are proud of him not because he occupied the Prime Minister’s office at Number 10 Downing Street, London, but because of what he did for their country: he saved Britain from Adolf Hitler and his fascism.  Churchill mobilized his threatened country and got his people to fight on until America was persuaded to enter the fray and saved England from the blood thirsty Hun. 

Mr. Jonathan, what do you think folks say about you?  The word on the street is that all you do is get plastered, drunk, have sex and pass out, oblivious of what is going on around you.

Is this really all that you can do in office?  Don’t you have any kind of goal? Don’t you have any kind of shame, the shame that the universe gave you an opportunity to do something useful for Nigeria and you squandered it on alcohol and sex with disgustingly fat women? Is this really all that life means to you, to eat, drink and have rumps on the hay?

Nigeria has provided you with a fleet of jet planes and helicopters so you jet around the country and the world. Apparently, you also do nothing in the various places you jet to. It is my understanding that wherever you go to, folks see you as a nincompoop or at best as a mere tourist and show you their country. You are the perpetual Tourist President (aren’t leaders supposed to be in their countries and get some jobs done; do you get your job, whatever that is, done inside planes?).

Wherever you go, your hosts, apparently, have no illusion that you are a real head of state and that you stand for something. They simply ignore your presence.

Nelson Mandela recently died and as expected you were one of the first do nothing, Tourists Heads of States to go to South Africa. But since in the people’s minds you stand for nothing you were not even deemed worthy of making a speech at his funeral. At any rate, what would you be speaking about, how to “chop” Nigeria’s oil money? Could you have talked about industrializing Nigeria and what you are doing to that end?

Mr. Jonathan, the universal perception of you is that you do not stand for anything other than your belly, that you are a drunkard and for all intents and purposes useless.

Mr. Jonathan, let me break it down for you: folks can hardly wait for your increasingly alcohol bloated body to be shoved out of Aso Rock; people can hardly wait to replace you with a person who, hopefully, has some goals that he wants to accomplish for the country. Mr. Jonathan, is this really good enough for you? 

Mr. Jonathan, the income of the average Nigerian per day is about US $2 dollars.  If that is the case, it makes Nigeria a poor country, wouldn’t you say so?  If the typical US citizen’s income per year is about $22, 000 and your country men live on $600 a year one would think that there is a gulf between the USA and Nigeria, right? 

If that is the case could you please tell us the logic behind your traveling in a fleet of planes?  You want to be like the President of the USA, right?  And you want to live like the President of the USA without the economy of the USA, right? 

You cannot even provide jobs for the millions of unemployed school leavers in Nigeria. What is the unemployment rate in Nigeria, 50%? And what is it in the USA, 7%? You are pathetic, my dear man.

Not long ago you made a childish plea for Nigeria to be admitted as a member of the Security Council of the United Nations. As we talk, there are disturbances in South Sudan (the Dinkas and Nuers are killing each other; Africa’s killing sports is at work; Africans have no respect for each other hence find it easy to kill each other, or do what you do: ignore their people’s needs). Can Nigeria intervene as the other five members of the UN Security Council could?  Do you have the logistics to ferry several thousand troops to Juba, right now? Of course not; apparently, your understanding of what planes are for is to carry your sorry ass to all over the world to go do nothing.

A country that does not manufacture even a spoke wants to be hobnobbing with the big boys of the industrialized world. What does that make you? It makes you a deluded character; you apparently do not know the difference between reality and wishful thinking, aka fantasy.

Nigeria is a poor country that but for the oil that nature placed under its soul, not what Nigerians produced, would be composed of starving folk and you want to play the role played by industrialized countries!

It would seem that if you are sane you would be working your buttocks off to become industrialized instead of fancying yourself the likes of America. 

The British prime minister flies commercial airlines, so sell all those planes you have and fly commercial. Do not even drive around in fancy cars; a Volkswagen is all you deserve as the president whose entire annual economy is about that of Los Angeles County, California.

Who exactly do you think that you are deceiving but yourself? You are a poor church mouse pretending to be rich. Knock it off, my dear fellow; you are not amusing but silly. Mr. Jonathan, you are a clown; you are not even funny!

Get the hell out of Aso Rock and go live in a goddamned apartment somewhere in Abuja for that is all you deserve, the rest is pretense. You are the president of a banana republic pretending to be the president of a consequential country.

Mr. President of Nigeria instead of pretending to be a member of the industrialized club why don’t you do all of us a favor, will you? Concentrate on giving all Nigerians uninterrupted electricity for just one day. I mean just one day, not the entire three hundred and sixty five days of the year, just one day. A country that cannot give its people one day of uninterrupted electricity in the year thinking that it belongs in the same class as the USA, Britain and France is actually a joke. You are a big joke, Mr. Jonathan.

      You are beyond making one laugh only you do not know it.  If I were to give you free advice I would suggest that you concentrate on industrializing Nigeria so that it joins the club of the Asian tigers instead of fancying yourself in the same class as Europeans; you aren’t; you are, at least, five hundred years behind Europe. We do not need to delude ourselves as to where we are.

     Britain, France and the USA have the nuclear weapons to obliterate all of Africa in one hour and you fancy yourself in their class. You do not make me laugh; you make my angry at how stupid a human being can be.

Africans are drowning in the Mediterranean sea trying to get to Europe as economic refugees; Nigerian doctors come to the USA and stay and work as medical assistants instead of returning to Nigeria where the hospitals are like something out of the preindustrial age and you are thinking that you are like the President of the United States hence jetting around the world in planes manufactured in the USA that you know nothing about.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/an-open-letter-to-president-goodluck-jonathan-of-nigeria.html

Kindly click on the link above to read the open letter.

How will they now pay for their own bridge, when Ohaneze is already eating the bridge and onitsha port, based on GEJ and Oduahs' handout to them.

They are already eating onitsha port and 2NB

Pukkah: Some people get paid to write those things you call crap o.

Have you heard of Pay Per Post (PPP)?

Or Pay Per Page (PPP)?

Oops, PPP again? I'm not talking about Julius Berger's PPP o except theirs is interpreted as 'Pay Per Pass' on the Second Niger Bridge.

Enjoy yourself Jman06 and unleash your potentials.

People like insincere ghanian.

rafindo: It is very clear from these thread that oduduwa wives were suffering from various illment,disease,infirmity ranging from bigotry,hatred,laziness,mediocrity,mental leprosy.the product is very evident in these forum.i wish u all the best in ur new found foolery.

dont start what you cant finish.

seems you are new here. a word of advise for you

careytommy: Remove Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers from that list of 35 as the money the FG redistributes comes solely from these states.

IGR is the sweat of your state.

Redistributed funds are funds generated from God bestowed resources.

it seems coogar has gone on hols to timbuktu.

this thread would have gotten to 800 pages. courtesy of elampiro vs coogar -- rooney's arguments and other unbelieveable worthless arguments

dayokanu: As long as I am the current CL, Supercup and Club world cup champion every thread becomes my dumping ground since y'all are inferior to Bayern at this moment

Seun should allow us to be billing fans of us other clubs visiting other clubs thread.

By now dayokanu indebtedness to united thread, would have been so much, that he will forever be indebtedness to us throughout his lifetime.

Dhelake: How on earth is Bayelsas wages 48bn ... what's their workers population.... ohh!! They pay some absent permanent secretary

the whole state and their unborn babies are being salaries too.

[quote author=IGBO-SON]^^^Who are the so-called 'Isreali states'?.......just asking! [/quote]Such as Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, West bank, Haifa

Adaobi is the worst. the most tribal governor in Nigeria.

Ngwakwe: Whoever knows the author of this scrap should warn him/her to desist from invoking useless statistics and assigning figures with no reference or verifiable source.

This article should be pulled off the web space and erased from google search.

Damn Nigeria Journalists

see whining

just because Enugu or Anambra was not said to be self sufficient.

Calm down. It is a clarion call to all us, to task our political leaders more.

asha 80: trying very hard to derail the thread is just what i seeing.

they are just helping him, to achieve what he set out to achieve, from the onset.

ilugunboy: Believe me....if at all it exist...it was by very few people and highly subdued.

National politics after 2011...and the Anamabra shame opened many eyes.....how can a whole governor be querying the presence of a Nigerian in Anambra?

I don't know where they got that girl of a governor from?

It seems all our players have upped their games.

Could it be the fear of the January transfer window clear out? Or the Nazi-training methodology of Moyes paying of?

Their energy level has been very high in all the last 3games, as well as, intensity.

Their speed has improved tremendously from the pedestal and mediocre pace at the beginning of the season.

The transition from defense to attack, whenever there is a room for counterattack, has been swift and commendable, but not deadly enough.

The stability and youthfulness in our defense has made he defense more solid an De Gea still remains a cheap buy for us.

Using the 2wings with Adnan and Valencia have added more varied dimension to our game. Cleverly seems to have turned a new leave and Young has found his mojo back. Adnan will definitely be a world class player.

Very good dominant performance.

The fitness level of the team is commendable and mobility is swift, sweet and sensational.