Editor’s note: If there is one thing that hasn’t worked well for President Goodluck Jonathan, it is the caliber of men and women whom he has appointed in various positions.
Mahmud Jega lists out 12 personalities that have further
dented president’s personal image and the image of his
administration.

Story highlights:
– Obasanjo’s devastating attacks against Jonathan,
sometimes through letters, at other times through public
lectures have taken a heavy toll.
– Sambo has nothing of the political drive and ambition
of, say, Atiku Abubakar.
– The president contributed to his party’s current
predicament in three ways.

(Daily Trust) –
1. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur
His disastrous tenure as PDP’s national chairman was
the biggest game changer for the PDP from which it
might never recover. Bamanga’s tenure also coincided
with the period when three major opposition parties were
consolidating into one mega opposition party, but the
chairman failed to recognise the emerging threat. Instead,
he encouraged the Party Leader to settle personal scores
within the party. It was a cover for Bamanga to also
settle personal scores of his own. He suspended a state
governor for refusing to answer his phone call; he
watched askance as seven governors formed a faction
called ‘the new PDP’ (nPDP), and he didn’t care a hoot
when 5 governors jumped ship and joined the APC.

2. Chief Edwin Clark
As soon as Dr. Goodluck Jonathan rose to the
presidency, this Gowon-era Information Minister created
for himself a position hitherto unknown in Nigerian
politics, that of the president’s ethnic godfather. No
Yoruba potentate occupied this post during Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo’s eight year rule and even the feeble
President Umaru Yarádua had no such godfather. Rather
than use his extra-constitutional position to steady the
president’s position, Clark used it to create numerous
enemies for Jonathan through his use of intemperate
language and regular assaults at dissenting folks.

3. Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke
No one gets to sit atop Nigeria’s oil industry without
making many enemies. Mrs Allison Madueke’s beauty,
fluent English and polished manners gained for her a lot
of mileage, but the sleaze in the oil industry ultimately
caught up with her. Most damaging have been the
scandalous rip offs in subsidy payments, the botched
attempt to remove the oil subsidy in 2012, Sanusi’s
allegation of the missing $20 billion and the reported N10
billion spent to hire private jets, not to mention the failure
to pass the PIB bill.

4. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The first ever Coordinating Minister of the Economy
fancies herself as an economic wunderkind at par with
the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer or the Japanese
Prime Minister Sato. While most Nigerians thought
economic conditions were harsh, Mrs Okonjo-Iweala
bandied figures and said it is among the best-managed in
the world. This sharp discrepancy between the official
claims and people’s feelings did much damage to the
administration’s credibility. Nor was there any
preparation of the public mind for the steep fall in oil
prices, the sharp drop in external reserves and the
precipitous decline of the naira.

5. Dame Patience Jonathan
In the last five decades Nigerian First Ladies have often
been mired in one controversy or another. Mrs Patience
Jonathan however stands in a class of her own by
making many gaffes and ill-advised actions that badly
affected the public image of her husband’s regime. Worst
of them all was her intervention in the Chibok girls’ saga
and her futile attempts to prove that her husband’s
political enemies orchestrated the whole affair. Her
quarrel with Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of her home
state, also resulted in PDP’s most impactful loss of a
political figure.

6. Mujaheed Dokubo Asari
This ex-militant’s coarse manner, intemperate language
and his open threats against whole regions of the country
supposedly in Jonathan’s service did much political
damage. Asari was later joined by more ex-militant
leaders to threaten war against the country should
Jonathan lose the election. Their joint threat greatly
antagonised non-partisan opinion all over the country.

7. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
If remarks must be matched to records, this former two-
time ruler has no moral authority to criticise anyone but
the wily Obasanjo re-launched himself back into the
reckoning of Nigerians by spearheading attacks against
the Jonathan regime in the last two years. Many people
suspect that his motives are ungodly. Yet Obasanjo’s
devastating attacks against Jonathan, sometimes
through letters, at other times through public lectures
have taken a heavy toll. The Jonathan Presidency never
quite settled on the best way to tackle Obasanjo.
Sometimes it answered his letters; at other times it tried
to ignore him and at still other times it sent seven PDP
governors to plead with him to keep quiet.

8. Governor Godswill Akpabio
The ambitious Akwa Ibom State governor rapidly moved
very close to President Jonathan and soon installed
himself as the president’s top gubernatorial enforcer. At
one point he went about the task wisely, such as when he
talked Bamanga into reversing Governor Aliyu
Wamakko’s suspension. Other times he handled matters
with very damaging crudity, such as the 16 is greater
than 19 affair, which effectively destroyed the Nigeria
Governors Forum.

9. Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu
When he replaced Bamanga Tukur as PDP’s chairman,
the former Bauchi State governor was proclaimed by his
partymen as the game changer. It turned out that he
underestimated the fall in PDP’s esteem and total
political stature. Even though Mu’azu toured the country
trying to lure back members who defected and though he
refrained from creating more problems by not trying to
settle personal scores, the damage had been done and he
was unable to reverse it.

10. Vice President Mohamed Namadi Sambo
Many of Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet members would sit
back and say that the Vice President is to blame for
failing to stem the tide when the country’s single largest
voting bloc, the far North, turned completely against the
Jonathan regime. Some northern PDP governors
encouraged this belief in the hope of replacing Sambo on
the ticket. Sambo has nothing of the political drive and
ambition of, say, Atiku Abubakar. His affable and non-
controversial nature did not add to the regime’s problems
but it did not stave off the decline either.

11. NSA and military service chiefs
The top security chiefs have contributed to President
Jonathan and PDP’s problems in only three ways. One
was their failure to tame Boko Haram despite repeated
claims that they will do so. Second was their timing the
operation to end Boko Haram once and for all with the
date set for presidential election. The third, final damage
inflicted by the service chiefs was their asking for the
election to be postponed while they attack Boko Haram.

12. Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
The President contributed to his party’s current
predicament in only three ways that I can think of. They
are his lack of adequate knowledge about Nigeria, lack of
adequate preparation before becoming the president of
Nigeria and lack of rapid catching up study when he
became the president of Nigeria. His mistake in choosing Bamanga Tukur; his over reliance on Ngozi, Diezani and Akpabio; his initial misreading of Boko Haram as a political plot; his inability to manage Obasanjo, Edwin Clark, Aminu Tambuwal, nPDP and ex-militants can all be attributed to those three inadequacies.
How can a match be won with 12 players scoring own
goals?

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looool

Sambo is a pure flop.......

hahaha

this is all i can do.

Mrs Faka Ebele Jonathan

12. Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
The President contributed to his party’s current
predicament in only three ways that I can think of. They
are his lack of adequate knowledge about Nigeria, lack of
adequate preparation before becoming the president of
Nigeria and lack of rapid catching up study when he
became the president of Nigeria. His mistake in choosing Bamanga Tukur; his over reliance on Ngozi, Diezani and Akpabio; his initial misreading of Boko Haram as a political plot; his inability to manage Obasanjo, Edwin Clark, Aminu Tambuwal, nPDP and ex-militants can all be attributed to those three inadequacies.
How can a match be won with 12 players scoring own
goals?

Foolish taniods see how your man politicizing everything in the country led BH to this annoying level and threat BH pose to Nigeria.

if the list be arranged in order of those who contributed jeopardy to the tenure, then GEJ himself should top the list.
he surrounded himself by those cohorts and permitted them to "miwanda" and manipulate his tenure for the good of some hungry power-seeking bastards.
if he never put the ball in their court i bet no one has the power to do whatever he likes with the treasury and resources of our beloved country...

Fayose is not on this list??







He ruined pdp with his bad and leaking mouth..

How did Sambo ruin his chances? He was a ghost worker he did nothing wrong