kutchs: I will ignore ur insult but I still request for a text of the president‘s speech in which he condemned the media. Jokes apart u seem to know more than everyone here on that issue thats why am asking.

Sisi_Kill:
Well. . .that was really a short list but thanks for confirming what I always suspected. . .now I know I said no name calling but how can it be if it is the fact? And the fact here clearly show you are a simpleton.

What do you guys think this is. . .High School??! I mean really!!

Gah!!

monkeyleg: "Man wey Catch Big Fish no dey take backyard Enter House", a Popular Warri saying. [size=13pt]If Goddy has done so well , he doesnt need town cryers to come and spread the news.[/size]

Kobojunkie:

See wetin person wey you dey debate type sef . . . is that supposed to be the new spelling.

djmally:

Being the president of NIGERIA is worth being jealous of bro..... Capsci?

Kobojunkie: This guy is amassing an army of town criers ooo . . . I just hope they are not being paid from the pockets of the Nigerian people.

kutchs: And what if they are, what are u gonna do abourit?

Kobojunkie:

Do you mind removing that rusted nail stuck in your medulla so that you can read posts before submitting inane tripe as response?

maclatunji: Great presidents are made great by horrible circumstances combined with character, temperament and intelligence. Like firemen, cops, doctors or soldiers, presidents need a crisis to shine

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan took the oath of office on 29 May, 2011 amidst thunderous expectations of a new dawn, given the mountain of problems that characterized the nation.

Jonathan is one of the most intelligent presidents to ever step forward in Nigeria's history the second fully fit university graduate. The likes of his intellectual capabilities have not been surpassed in public life since the Founding Fathers put pen to paper. His personal character is also solid gold. Take heart, Nigeria: we have the leader for our times.

I say this as a Pan Africanist who believes totally in One Nigeria, former life-long siddon look Nigerian. I say this as a proud Nigerian . I speak as someone who knows it's time to forget tribal loyalty, party loyalty, ideology and pride and put the country first.

Jonathan is our last best chance. He's worth laying it all on the line for.

Where many leaders are two-faced; publicly kindly but privately feared and/or hated by people closest to them, Jonathan is consistent in the way he treats people, consistently kind and personally humble. He lives by the code that those who lead must serve. He believes that. He lives it. He lived it long before he was in the public eye.

Jonathan puts service ahead of ideology. He also knows that to succeed politically you need to be tough. He can be. He has been (Okerenkoko and Gbaramatu). This is a man who does what works, rather than scoring ideological points. In other words he is the quintessential non-ideological pragmatic Nigerian. He will (thank God!) disappoint ideologues and purists of the left and the right.

Jonathan has a reservoir of personal physical courage that is unmatched in our presidential history. Why unmatched? Because as the first monority contender for the presidency who has won, Jonathan, and all the rest of us, know that he is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged tribal hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the bowels of our wounded and sinful country. By stepping forward to lead, Jonathan has literally put his life on the line for all of us in a way no other Nigerian ever has had to do. (And we all know how dangerous the presidency has been)

The greater point about Jonathan is that the midst of our worldwide financial meltdown, an expanding Boko Haram ,Niger Delta Militancy,Piracy,Kidnappings,Armed Robberies,Bribery and corruption etc, watching our educational levels decline to unbelievable levels of incompetence, facing a general loss of confidence in the government that has been exacerbated by the opposition doing all they can to undermine our government's capabilities and programs... President Jonathan has taken on the leadership of our country at a make or break time of historic proportions. He faces not one but dozens of crisis, each big enough to define any presidency in better times.

As luck, fate or divine grace would have it (depending on one's personal theology) Jonathan is blessedly, dare I say uniquely, well-suited to our dire circumstances. Jonathan is a person with hands-on experience, deep connections to top advisers from the renowned Universites in Nigeria being a former university lecturer , and a middle-class background that gives him an abiding knowledgeable empathy with the rest of us. As the son of poor parents, who has worked his way up with merit and brains, in three giant political steps to state office, national office and now the presidency, Jonathan clearly has the wit and drive to lead.

Jonathan is the sober voice of reason at a time of unreason. He is the fellow keeping his head while all around him are panicking. He is the healing presence at a time of national division and strife. He is also new enough to the political process so that he doesn't suffer from the terminally jaded cynicism, the seen-it-all-before syndrome afflicting most politicians in Nigeria. In that regard we Nigerians lucked out. It's as if having despaired of our political process we picked a name from the phone book to lead us and that person turned out to be a very man we needed.

Jonathan brings a healing and uplifting spiritual quality to our politics at the very time when our worst enemy is fear. Fearless Jonathan is the cure. He speaks a litany of hope rather than a litany of terror.

As we have watched Jonathan respond in a quiet reasoned manner to crisis after crisis, in both the way he has responded after being attacked and lied about , to his reasoned response to our multiplying national crises, what we see is the spirit of a trusted family doctor with a great bedside manner. Jonathan is perfectly suited to hold our hand and lead us through some very tough times. The word panic is not in the Jonathan dictionary.

Jonathan brings a moral clarity to his leadership reserved for those who have had to work for everything they've gotten and had to do twice as well as the person standing next to them because of the region they come from . His experience of succeeding in spite of his social background could have been embittering or one that fostered a spiritual rebirth of forgiveness and enlightenment. Jonathan radiates the calm inner peace of the spirit of forgiveness.

Speaking as a believing Nigerian I see the hand of a merciful God in Jonathans Presidency. The biblical metaphors abound. The stone the builder rejected is become the cornerstone... the last shall be first... he that would gain his life must first lose it... the meek shall inherit the earth...

For my secular friends I'll allow that we may have just been extraordinarily lucky! Either way Nigeria wins.

Only a brilliant man, with the spirit of a preacher and the humble heart of a kindly family doctor can lead us now. We are afraid, out of ideas, and worst of all out of hope. Jonathan is the cure. And we Nigerian's have it in us to rise to the occasion. We will. We're in one of the most frightening periods of Nigerian history. Our country has rarely faced more uncertainty. This is the time for greatness. We have a great leader. We must be a great people backing him, fighting for him, sacrificing for a cause greater than ourselves.

A hundred years from now Jonathan's portrait will be placed next to that of Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe,King Jaja Of Opobo,Ahmadu Bello and Nana Of Itsekiri etc. Long before that we'll be telling our children and grandchildren that we stepped out in faith and supported a man who stood up and led our country back from the brink of an abyss. We'll tell them about the power of love, faith and hope. We'll tell them about the power of creativity combined with humility and intellectual brilliance. We'll tell them that President Jonathan gave us the gift of regaining our faith in our country. We'll tell them that we all stood up and pitched in and won the day. We'll tell them that President Jonathan restored our standing in the world. We'll tell them that by the time he left office our schools were on the mend, our economy booming. We'll tell them that because of President Jonathan's example and leadership the integrity of the family was restored, divorce rates went down, more fathers took responsibility for their children, and abortion rates fell dramatically as women, families and children were cared for through compassionate social programs that worked. We'll tell them about how the gap closed between the middle class and the super rich, how we won health care for all, how crime rates fell, how kidnappings, militancy and terrorism were brought to an honourable conclusion.

We'll tell them that we were part of the inexplicably blessed miracle that happened to our country those many years ago in 2011 when an Ijaw man was sent by God, fate or luck to save our country. We'll tell them that it's good to live in Nigeria where anything is possible.

Billyonaire: [size=15pt]GEJ - FRESH AIR!!![/size]

Mallamabdul:

All hot rantings and vituperations of an ignorant fellow. Jonathan should end unemployment, give you state of the art hospitals and turn Nigeria to US for you in one year in office?
Something that his predecessors have failed to do since 1960, you want Magician Jonathan to do immediately. You must be a class clown.

Unknown to you, GEJ is fixing the power problem that has held this country back for years. He is the first president to generate upto about 4770 MW in one year. And he is doing more.
He has started reviving railways that were abandoned long time ago. He is also working on roads like Benin -Ore and Kano-Maidugri which were abandoned by previous govts. He is working on the airports and the last time I used Kano and Abuja airports, I was impressed with the level of work going on. Im happy with the new Federal university being set up in Lafia and the admission and employment prospects it holds for my brothers. I have plied Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia and appreciate the completion of that road project by this government.

You mentioned unemployment. Without talking about the YOUWIN projects, I want to ask you whether you can quantify the employment opportunities that the PRIVATISATION of distribution companies in the power sector holds for our unemployed youths? Do you also know the number of jobs that will be created if this improved power supply is maintained? What about the agricultural reforms that has made access to fertilizer easy in the open market? Have you bothered to acquaint your self with the cassava bread issue and seek ways of keying into it? have you bothered to know what PIB is all about and the employment opportunities it holds for Nigerian youths? Pls educate yourself

You also talked about corruption. Please can you tell me any govt in Nigeria's history that ventured into probing its oil sector and expose the oil cabal? Since 1960, we have been hearing the oil looters. Have you seen any name or company indicted for looting oil in Nigeria? Have you ever seen anybody prosecuted for the age long theft of our oil money? But we have seen Jonathan do all of these within just one year of his election as President. We now know the names of the invisible oil cabal. We now see the high and mighty being dragged to court for oil loot. Please let's be realistic

Tinyemeka:

Brother, at first, at I thought this entire part was satire. Seeing that it wasn't eventually, made me so disgusted I lost my appetite.

oxford:

i take it that ur gross is with the president wife only. Watin concern you with another person wife. Spending naija money? Go to court.