WHAT is wrong with Goodluck Jonathan? Now
that he has finally and officially been
acknowledged as acting president he is not
taking charge. What is the difference
between an absent Yar'Adua and Jonathan as
acting president? Nothing. We still have what
is being called a vacuum for proxy, because
it is like the acting president is not there. The
National Assembly has given the acting
president full support to take control and
drive the country in the right direction. The
governor's forum, the Federal Executive
Council and civil society have all cheered him
on. The whole world has said YES you can Mr.
acting President. What more does Jonathan
need? I guess it takes more than good luck
and patience to run a country.
Somebody please tell me, how two army
units, the 4th battalion and guards brigade,
300 selected officers and 25 vehicles were
deployed in the middle of the night with
weapons released to them to go and pick up
Mr. President without his right hand man the
present Commander in Chief of the Armed
Forces of Nigeria knowing about it? Is this
true? Did Jonathan not really know that Mr.
President was coming back into the country?
Who deployed these troops? Is it possible
that the Chief of Defence Staff or the Chief of
Army staff or the National Security Adviser
deployed these troops in the middle of the
night to go and pick up Mr. President without
his acting presidents' knowledge? Please tell
me these are all lies, fabricated by the media
to sell papers. If these stories have any sense
of truth to them, why have these men not
been fired yet and charged with treason? If
these stories have any sense of truth to them
we need to sit back and really deal with the
real issue.
Is it really true that Jonathan has not been
given access to see Mr. President? Is it true
that Jonathan is communicating with Mr.
President through his wife, Turai Yar'Adua?
Is it true that Turai deployed two members
of the Brigade of Guards to barricade the
"presidential seat"? Is it true that she sent
State Security Services to ransack Jonathan's
office? Are all these stories really true? Why
has Jonathan not arrested the First Lady for
kidnapping the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria? Have people forgotten
that Yar'Adua belongs to Nigeria and
Nigerians have the right to see their
president, and if Turai is preventing this
from happening then Jonathan as the
present commander-in-chief of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria should have her arrested
and charged. What is wrong with Jonathan?
Is this all a political game that he is playing?
Or is he really unable to lead?
What is even more confusing is how most of
these reports and stories are proudly coming
out of the acting president's office. Do they
realise that they are actually telling us that
the acting president is incompetent and
unable to lead and protect this country? Do
they actually realise that they are causing
confusion and anarchy? Do they realise that
they are actually telling us that we cannot
trust our acting president? Do they realise
that they are actually telling us that our
acting president does not know what is
going on in his own country? If the acting
president does not know what is going on,
how will we ever know?
When I hear and read all these stories, panic
strikes me. The realisation is that the citizens
of this country are not safe. The events that
have taken place in the last few days are a
clear picture of how unsafe we are in
Nigeria. In all of this drama and locomotion
of troops being deployed in the middle of
the night and given weapons without the
acting president's knowledge, we are losing
sight of the real issue here. What is the real
issue? The real issue here is who will lead us,
because it is evident that Jonathan cannot.
How can the acting president not be aware
of the events happening in his office?
Everyone is blaming Turai Yar'Adua and
focusing on her. Turai Yar'Adua is not the
issue. Our issue is Jonathan and his inability
to lead and protect us as he should. The only
thing that Turai Yar'Adua has done is to
reveal to us that Nigeria quickly needs a
president and that Goodluck Jonathan is not
the man for the job. So, what do we do now?
Do we choose another acting President?
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article03//indexn2_html?pdate=050310&ptitle=What%20is%20wrong%20with%20Jonathan?

@poster, so many questions to be answered. welcome to the world of Nigerian politics. my candid advice to you, don't allow the political affairs of this country make you fall sick. POLITICS IS A GAME!

Ijele-igbo:

@poster, so many questions to be answered. welcome to the world of Nigerian politics. my candid advice to you, don't allow the political affairs of this country make you fall sick. POLITICS IS A GAME!

I just hope you are wrong!

There are over 150million people depending on the action/inaction of Jonathan.

Sincerely, I wish he performs

When baba iyabo was shopping for a running mate for Yaradua, the criteria and quality sort was: someone who is very dumb, a weak political base/antecedent, one who would not challenge Yaradua or rock the boat, the word was "someone unlike Atiku"

So the dumbest and dullest running mate amongst the South South Governors was chosen.

What do u expect? or does an old man learn to use his left hand at old age? Jonathan's inactions and inabilities are expected and characteristic of him, unless ur living in fantasy land.

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What do u serioulsy expect from a lame-duck because effectively that is what he is. Even if u are the most popular president with an approval rating of 97% at the tail end of your regime u would be lamer than a duck.