pheliciti:
The writer must be insensitive to allege that 25k km was done by GEJ based on fabricated quotes. He should as a journalist be more investigative and list out the roads! If at all, none of the meagre successes of GEJ can justify the amount of theft and cluelessness of that govt. Please the writer should deal with that.
Using subsidy removal as an example, the argument now is different from those of 4 yrs ago. Now, it is glaring that with the fall in oil prices, removal of subsidy would not hurt the populace.
In the 2012 scenario, the argument was that removal would create money to fund infrastructure with the creation of SUREP. Please show us the infrastructure financed with the 50% removal (remember, subsidy was partly removed) other than private constructions by the subsidy thieves and their acolytes including Thisday journalists like the writer of the editorial. Don't also forget the manner of the removal; crude was selling at record high yet those that travelled to villages were left stranded as a result of sudden price changes.

See this one wey him mouth de smell like Thieffnubu. Are you related to Thieffnubu?

light004:


Anything under the sun can be alleged and doesn't make it true either. I strongly believe like the popular saying goes when you want to hide something from a black man just put it in a book. If this is your deduction after reading this post then it's either you are completely blinded by prejudices or you never read it or you find it very difficult to understand the write up.you must learn to separate facts from friction. APC is a party of contradiction and it beat me silly when they remain the source of authentic information for some Nigerians.

The following from APC:

1. Jonathan spent six years in power. Same APC in different fora he spent 5years.
2. Jonathan did nothing in office for five years. Same APC, lots of roads constructed and many in different stages of completion (Fashola). I never knew trains were working in Nigeria (Ameachi). so many ongoing projects in the transmission sector and some are almost completed while others are in varying degrees of completion (Fashola). I met empty treasury
3. Subsidy is a scam and fraud. Same APC now in govt, paying half a trillion in subsidy.
4. The presidential fleet is too large, we will sell off most of the aircraft and leave just two. Same APC, using the same numbers of aircraft with a higher maintenance cost.

I can go on and on but the point is this cross check whatever information you get and never spread such until you get the facts.

It's interesting how surreal and transcendental the concept of good governance is to many Nigerians. Most of our youth seem to be satisfied with tokens and half measures given by successive governments in the name of serving the people.
I have not, in all my responses praised the current government; yet you see comments calling anyone that criticizes the last administration an APC apologist. My view, anyone that praises Jonathan as a good leader is a masochist that needs psychiatric help. That person, who probably cannot afford 3 square meals, has no good job and lacks the basic needs of life and still praises the last administration to high heavens needs to take a hard look at his/her life.
Don't get me wrong, I desperately wanted Jonathan to do well when he came into office, most especially because a performing President from the Minority would really cement the unity of this country, just as Gowon had the diligence and good fortune of building the most enduring legacies among the founding leaders of this country. Jonathan blew it and no amount of revisionism can erase that. If roads were built, we would have seen it. If he improved electric power we would have seen it, if he performed even averagely on railways the Apapa traffic gridlock would have been a thing of the past. You only deceive yourself when you put stones in the pot and claim to be cooking yam.
Just as well, I want this government to do well and I've set timelines for my expectations. I will criticize it if they don't perform within a realistic time and I think they are on track. I pay taxes regularly and I have a right to expect service. Perhaps those that do not see any wrong in a bad government should start from the basic payment of taxes and let's see if they'd still tolerate incompetence.

PHIPEX:
I remember vividly how the South East was insulted and called all sorts of name here for failing to join the dance party at Ojota aka "occupy Nigeria". Today we know who was right.

Am afraid they may be prooved right once more for their Buhari aparty after 4 years. Every politician in Nigeria can not be trusted, majority of them are selfish.

SE and SS deserve an apology from these partisan brigands.. They are late in the game cos SE and SS folks saw the light in 2012!!

pheliciti:

It's interesting how surreal and transcendental the concept of good governance is to many Nigerians. Most of our youth seem to be satisfied with tokens and half measures given by successive governments in the name of serving the people.
I have not, in all my responses praised the current government; yet you see comments calling anyone that criticizes the last administration an APC apologist. My view, anyone that praises Jonathan as a good leader is a masochist that needs psychiatric help. That person, who probably cannot afford 3 square meals, has no good job and lacks the basic needs of life and still praises the last administration to high heavens needs to take a hard look at his/her life.
Don't get me wrong, I desperately wanted Jonathan to do well when he came into office, most especially because a performing President from the Minority would really cement the unity of this country, just as Gowon had the diligence and good fortune of building the most enduring legacies among the founding leaders of this country. Jonathan blew it and no amount of revisionism can erase that. If roads were built, we would have seen it. If he improved electric power we would have seen it, if he performed even averagely on railways the Apapa traffic gridlock would have been a thing of the past. You only deceive yourself when you put stones in the pot and claim to be cooking yam.
Just as well, I want this government to do well and I've set timelines for my expectations. I will criticize it if they don't perform within a realistic time and I think they are on track. I pay taxes regularly and I have a right to expect service. Perhaps those that do not see any wrong in a bad government should start from the basic payment of taxes and let's see if they'd still tolerate incompetence.

A very nice write up but we still remain at the same spot. Our Lord Jesus Christ knew this error of judgement that was why He admonished us never to judge anyone and went further to state that the same standard will apply to others shall be apply to us.

The big question is by what standard are you judging the previous administration? In all fariness, if given the same circumstance will you agree that that same standard be applied to you? We react to issues based on the level of information available to us and our own perception which may atimes be inaccurate or insufficient. In my comment, I limited myself to facts and statements that are verifiable.

You talked about power, roads, traffic gridlock in Apapa, just to highlight the major ones that if the previous administration has done anything you will have noticed, thus, your not noticing means that nothing was done. Nothing is more subjective than this but let put the facts on the table and I need you to cross check and disapprove with facts:

1. GEJ administration build more power plants than any other govt in the history of this country. Investment in that sector was equally massive. The improvement in power today is solely the effort of previous administration.
2. We have more motorable roads in GEJ administration than any other administration.
3. The Apapa gridlock is hydra-headed and not the makiing of GEJ but failure due to lack of planning. Find out the road was reconstructed during GEJ tenure but obviously that won't solve the problem which is the congestion of the port and the over centralisation of port activiies to Lagos alone. Please find out the reason for the gridlock? Let me state GEJ will also share part of the blame.
4. On the railway, it's sad that you failed to appreciate the tireless effort to reactivate our railway system and add new standard guage tracks and build the Abuja metroline. Please, tell us which administration has done this much for our railway? Don't forget, GEJ met the railway infrastructure in a comatose state, i.e. dead. If other administrations have done this much, the whole of Nigeria would have been connected by rail tracks.
5. Do you want me to talk about Agriculture or the electoral reforms and the improvement in that system or the reviving of the dead automobile industry in Nigeria - today we have more than 12 companies manufacturing various types of automobiles or you want to hear about how he revived the dead oversee scholarship scheme that was designed to provide high skilled Nigerians to pilot the affair of this Nation in the future or the entreprenuer schemes of Youwin, agroprenuer, etc that empowered various youths across the country. So much for a man that was alleged that did nothing. God is indeed watching. For you, you need to refute this claims with facts and figures.
I take you again to the bible, it's not by error that it was stated that you test all spirits in your quest for righteousness and truth. Truth will not fall on your laps because you desire it but you must seek for it and make conscious effort to attain it with all the resources at your disposal. Judge everyone rightly based on facts not hearsay and if in doubt please keep your opinion to yourself. May God help us all.

"[quote author=light004 post=41600450]

A very nice write up but we still remain at the same spot. Our Lord Jesus Christ knew this error of judgement that was why He admonished us never to judge anyone and went further to state that the same standard will apply to others shall be apply to us.

The big question is by what standard are you judging the previous administration? In all fariness, if given the same circumstance will you agree that that same standard be applied to you? We react to issues based on the level of information available to us and our own perception which may atimes be inaccurate or insufficient. In my comment, I limited myself to facts and statements that are verifiable.

You talked about power, roads, traffic gridlock in Apapa, just to highlight the major ones that if the previous administration has done anything you will have noticed, thus, your not noticing means that nothing was done. Nothing is more subjective than this but let put the facts on the table and I need you to cross check and disapprove with

Please note that it was within his powers to decentralize the ports. Not to forget, he promised to clear the Apapa gridlock and awarded contracts as usual, with zero results.

light004:


A very nice write up but we still remain at the same spot. Our Lord Jesus Christ knew this error of judgement that was why He admonished us never to judge anyone and went further to state that the same standard will apply to others shall be apply to us.

The big question is by what standard are you judging the previous administration? In all fariness, if given the same circumstance will you agree that that same standard be applied to you? We react to issues based on the level of information available to us and our own perception which may atimes be inaccurate or insufficient. In my comment, I limited myself to facts and statements that are verifiable.

You talked about power, roads, traffic gridlock in Apapa, just to highlight the major ones that if the previous administration has done anything you will have noticed, thus, your not noticing means that nothing was done. Nothing is more subjective than this but let put the facts on the table and I need you to cross check and disapprove with facts:

1. GEJ administration build more power plants than any other govt in the history of this country. Investment in that sector was equally massive. The improvement in power today is solely the effort of previous administration.
2. We have more motorable roads in GEJ administration than any other administration.
3. The Apapa gridlock is hydra-headed and not the makiing of GEJ but failure due to lack of planning. Find out the road was reconstructed during GEJ tenure but obviously that won't solve the problem which is the congestion of the port and the over centralisation of port activiies to Lagos alone. Please find out the reason for the gridlock? Let me state GEJ will also share part of the blame.
4. On the railway, it's sad that you failed to appreciate the tireless effort to reactivate our railway system and add new standard guage tracks and build the Abuja metroline. Please, tell us which administration has done this much for our railway? Don't forget, GEJ met the railway infrastructure in a comatose state, i.e. dead. If other administrations have done this much, the whole of Nigeria would have been connected by rail tracks.
5. Do you want me to talk about Agriculture or the electoral reforms and the improvement in that system or the reviving of the dead automobile industry in Nigeria - today we have more than 12 companies manufacturing various types of automobiles or you want to hear about how he revived the dead oversee scholarship scheme that was designed to provide high skilled Nigerians to pilot the affair of this Nation in the future or the entreprenuer schemes of Youwin, agroprenuer, etc that empowered various youths across the country. So much for a man that was alleged that did nothing. God is indeed watching. For you, you need to refute this claims with facts and figures.
I take you again to the bible, it's not by error that it was stated that you test all spirits in your quest for righteousness and truth. Truth will not fall on your laps because you desire it but you must seek for it and make conscious effort to attain it with all the resources at your disposal. Judge everyone rightly based on facts not hearsay and if in doubt please keep your opinion to yourself. May God help us all.

It is interesting to expect me to confuse efforts with success. I am not comparing one administration with the other, rather I'm comparing spending with what other governments in different countries spend to achieve result.
If the administration achieved successes in power reform, please measure success with the set targets. Check the Power Reform Agenda of the Jonathan administration which set the existing megawatts at 4,500 as of 2011 and left it at substantially less when he left office. I read the agenda with high hopes and I was hugely disappointed when it failed due to poor leadership.
By way of comparison, Ethiopia got about $350m loan to improve its road infrastructure and within a similar period succeeded in increasing its road stock from 26000km to about 99000km. Are we not the same humans?
If the tireless effort on rail will only allow us travel from Lagos to Ilorin spending 11 hours for journey of about 300 km then we are in soup. By way of comparison, a journey from London to Manchester which is a slightly longer distance takes about 2hr 30mins. Why settle for less?
If you trumpet the successes on Agric, then ask why the food import bill is still high. The focal point was on rice production, with billions spent as incentive shared by corrupt politicians and acolytes of your mentor. Don't ask me why you still depend on imported rice. Or you want to swear by your Bible that you buy and eat only locally grown rice?

pheliciti:

It is interesting to expect me to confuse efforts with success. I am not comparing one administration with the other, rather I'm comparing spending with what other governments in different countries spend to achieve result.
If the administration achieved successes in power reform, please measure success with the set targets. Check the Power Reform Agenda of the Jonathan administration which set the existing megawatts at 4,500 as of 2011 and left it at substantially less when he left office. I read the agenda with high hopes and I was hugely disappointed when it failed due to poor leadership.
By way of comparison, Ethiopia got about $350m loan to improve its road infrastructure and within a similar period succeeded in increasing its road stock from 26000km to about 99000km. Are we not the same humans?
If the tireless effort on rail will only allow us travel from Lagos to Ilorin spending 11 hours for journey of about 300 km then we are in soup. By way of comparison, a journey from London to Manchester which is a slightly longer distance takes about 2hr 30mins. Why settle for less?
If you trumpet the successes on Agric, then ask why the food import bill is still high. The focal point was on rice production, with billions spent as incentive shared by corrupt politicians and acolytes of your mentor. Don't ask me why you still depend on imported rice. Or you want to swear by your Bible that you buy and eat only locally grown rice?

No use exchanging further post with you. Am done

pheliciti:
The writer must be insensitive to allege that 25k km was done by GEJ based on fabricated quotes. He should as a journalist be more investigative and list out the roads! If at all, none of the meagre successes of GEJ can justify the amount of theft and cluelessness of that govt. Please the writer should deal with that.
Using subsidy removal as an example, the argument now is different from those of 4 yrs ago. Now, it is glaring that with the fall in oil prices, removal of subsidy would not hurt the populace.
In the 2012 scenario, the argument was that removal would create money to fund infrastructure with the creation of SUREP. Please show us the infrastructure financed with the 50% removal (remember, subsidy was partly removed) other than private constructions by the subsidy thieves and their acolytes including Thisday journalists like the writer of the editorial. Don't also forget the manner of the removal; crude was selling at record high yet those that travelled to villages were left stranded as a result of sudden price changes.

One sentence:

ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE OK?