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Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by midolian(m): 5:57am On Feb 21, 2016 |
“In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people seek power.”Saul Bellow. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 124. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/jonathan-presidency-was-a-disaster-foretold-1/ Credit: Dele sobowale 36 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Nobody: 6:02am On Feb 21, 2016 |
I disagree, GEJ tenure may have had its faults but it was not as confused as this present Buhari regime. 168 Likes 16 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by midolian(m): 6:03am On Feb 21, 2016 |
How did Jonathan Presidency even happen? ![]() Maybe its God's own way of making us know Abacha was a good man. ![]() ![]() 53 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by midolian(m): 6:05am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Adaure4ever: Read first, then Comment..not the other way. ![]() 97 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by blackestboy: 6:06am On Feb 21, 2016 |
smh... I thought you guys had done the worst by "propagandering" him out of office... Why all the cooked scenarios? He was a bad President... Yes. But he's gone! 38 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Firefire(m): 6:09am On Feb 21, 2016 |
APC still living as opposition party. - SMH 132 Likes 10 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Nobody: 6:11am On Feb 21, 2016 |
midolian:I read the write up, Jonathan is gone, let this blame game stop. Go to the street and see how people are getting disappointed with this present administration. Let us not allow party affliation to cover up our conscience. 141 Likes 13 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by OrlandoOwoh(m): 6:15am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Jonathan was a chapter in our political history that shouldn't have been written. 42 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by peacengine(m): 6:16am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Haven read the long epistle all I noticed was obvious bad blood against the former president, my question is what made him a disaster? Was it his emergence as the first South South person to become president or what? The OP did not give any reason for this conclusion. It is obvious that these people are determined to ruin Fmr President Jonathan's reputation, even after using this same tactics to unseat him among their people(N&SW). I think this will be their only agenda until 2019. Despite their failure in passing the 2016 budget of yams and eba, the stealing of the budget, the discovery of rent payment in Aso rock and other such anomalies in the budget, they refuse to hide their head in shame. People will understand the real meaning of a disastrous government soon, continue. 120 Likes 15 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by neutrotoba(m): 6:21am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Well said We can't stop speaking with regret about a man that took this Nation 20years back into time. 32 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Sammyashol(m): 6:25am On Feb 21, 2016 |
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Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Sammyashol(m): 6:26am On Feb 21, 2016 |
What should I say now, am just tired of this set of propaganda's 19 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Teddeebear: 6:31am On Feb 21, 2016 |
midolian:where have you been self … and what do you hope to achieve with this thread. just like the writer. Nigerians are wiser, you can't use this to distract us and buy time hoping things get better. This is 300days since Gej left office, stop this madness, if you can't solve the problems, resign. buhari should resign if he is clueless. 88 Likes 10 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by BushidoBlue(m): 6:35am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Let me reply your epistle with another recent one, in fact from yesterday 20 February 2016. Blame Jonathan ON FEBRUARY 21, 20161:30 By Obi Nwakanma Last week, Vanguard reported a curious drama during the State House briefing after the meeting of the National Executive Council, between State House Correspondents and the Minister for Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed. It seemed like the Buhari cabinet did not have much to talk about. There is of course much going on. Boko Haram is still killing and pillaging. The Chibok girls are as good as lost. To remove the sheen from that fact, the President was reported a while ago to have pointedly told parents of the girls of Chibok to go home as there’s not much else he could do for them. Former President Goodluck Jonathan Well, that’s very disappointing because President Buhari and the APC made it a cardinal point of their election promise to return the kidnapped girls of Chibok to their families as soon as they are installed in government. Not to return the girls will amount to a breach of trust and a failure to fulfil a cardinal electoral promise. Goodluck Jonathan lost Nigerians, and began to lose his re-election following the massive international outrage that accompanied the kidnap of the Chibok girls. The Jonathan administration was vehemently criticized for its slow and half-hearted response, and for its inability to mount a strategic rescue operation to get back the girls from their captor. The loss of the Chibok girls was Jonathan’s greatest undoing, and it is actually in my thinking right after all, that for that alone, he deserved to lose the presidency. Right under his watch over two hundred young women disappeared from a boarding school. This was more than a security lapse, it was a clear failure of national security. It required a great operational capability to move that number of people through many borders, and it needed only a decayed or frayed security system to permit that. Because the president failed to protect these citizens of Nigeria to whom he had sworn both allegiance and service, he did not deserve to be returned to his job as president. In actual fact, Jonathan’s slow response, and the campaign mounted in protest grew to frenzy. In the end, he went to the National Assembly and secured $1 billion in supplementary funding for his national security operations to fight Boko Haram, and mandated that operation on his National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. If truth must be told, by the time of the elections, Jonathan’s new strategy had put Boko Haram on the run, degraded its operations, and the tide had turned very clearly. Another three to six months of sustained action at the level may have seen the end of Boko Haram by now. But it was already too late for Jonathan’s government. He had waited far too late in the day to mount a serious counter offensive against the Islamic insurgency. It was too little too late. But there were visible signs of an impending Boko Haram defeat at the eve of Jonathan’s departure, on the strength of which Mr. Lai Mohammed, the Minister for Information, and Chief spokesman of this administration, no sooner in the life of the current administration was almost too quick on the draw to claim victory and the defeat of Boko Haram. Lai Mohammed was quoted at various times to say that Boko Haram, “technically” had been defeated and “degraded.” But six months later, Boko Haram is still there, and under the watch of this administration, has mounted even bolder, more ferocious attack, and on a greater killing spree than was possible under Jonathan. The Buhari administration has thus far failed in its promise to defeat Boko Haram. The significant push-back achieved at the twilight of the Jonathan administration has been lost. There is no clear-cut policy on the insurgency by this president except to move his military headquarters and put more boots on the ground. But an insurgency such as this requires a different strategy of counter-insurgency beyond traditional warfare techniques, and Jonathan’s last strategy before his electoral defeat had come to understand this. Meanwhile, the Buhari administration is busy conducting a killing spree of unarmed Biafran protesters in the South East of Nigeria, while Boko Haram insurgents are running wild in the North East. Something clearly doesn’t add up here, but back to Lai Mohammed. His critics have dubbed him “Liar Mohammed,” an unkind cut from his name, “Lai.” I have always liked the name, “Lai” because a great friend of mine from the University was called “Lai” and he was a great guy. Besides, I will not go so far as calling a Nigerian minister, “Liar,” but it often takes a great alchemist of untruths and distortions, to do the work of pure propaganda, as Mr. Mohammed has often done for the current administration. His strategy when everything fails is, “blame Jonathan.” So, in this last briefing of journalists, only two items were lined up: his attempt to explain the president’s numerous foreign travels, which has recently come under severe criticism, and his need to blame Jonathan for everything else. Reporters wanted to know a bit more – the radical slide of the naira, Boko Haram, the budget-padding scandal, the administration’s economic projections. But Lai Mohammed was in his element. Blame Jonathan. To justify the president’s increasingly expensive and wasteful foreign trips, the minister said, “You cannot run an economy by being isolated.” True enough. But that is why we have a Foreign Ministry and a foreign minister. Trained diplomats would not tell the Telegraph in London as the President recently did that “Nigerians are mostly criminals.” Such a statement is not meant to inspire or invite investor confidence. But what did Lai say? Blame Jonathan. Buhari has to travel because Nigeria had a pariah status under Jonathan. That is a lie, minister. Nigeria’s international standing actually improved under Jonathan. But this blame Jonathan game is getting old and worrisome. Budget goes missing, blame Jonathan. Buhari travels, blame Jonathan; Boko Haram continues to strike, blame Jonathan; Naira crashes, blame Jonathan; Economy worsens, blame Jonathan. One truth is clear: Jonathan revived the comatose railways, rebuilt long run-down federal highways, re-equipped the Armed Services, built twelve new Universities, and expanded the middle class. Above all, his greatest achievement was that Nigerians felt true liberty and freedom: no Nigerian lived in fear of government’s persecution, and he brought to an end, the spate of assassinations and kidnappings that marked the height of national insecurity before him. He wasn’t without achievement. His greatest undoing was the kidnap of the Chibok girls and his slow response to it. Lai Mohammed’s attempt to place the current failures of the current administration on Jonathan is both laughable and tragic. What is increasingly clear is that the APC had no plan to govern. Buhari’s first steps in government was all wrong: he started by alienating an entire segment of Nigerians, and he was too slow to respond to the realities of the crisis in the international oil market. Rather than pick up from Jonathan running, he crawled for six months, and seemed startled and confused by his own electoral victory. That period of inaction for six months when he failed to organize his government, stanch leakages, and establish necessary reforms has led to the current crisis with the Naira in a freefall, and the economy leaking badly like a wicker basket. Buhari’s economic policy that limited the circulation of money has led to a crisis of production and distribution. When he finally presented his budget, it became clear to Nigerians that this president is the one who really has no clue what running a contemporary nation is about in the 21st century, and the Tsunami that is about to hit him if he fails to reposition his priorities. He is already nine months in office, and he is still blaming Jonathan. Come three years hence this government will still be blaming Jonathan. Blame Jonathan is, it seems, the Buhari administration’s most consistent domestic policy. O ma bloody se o! http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/612603/ 113 Likes 13 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by midolian(m): 6:44am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Teddeebear:I have been around observing ![]() This is just a reminder to those that have failed to realize that Buhari is doing his best to fix the mess jonah made of this country. 23 Likes |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Nobody: 6:47am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Op you're quite daft sorry to say and I see you've run out of steam. We all know Jonathan was a mistake and is Lucifer in the flesh, now that the Messiah Buhari has come in have things improved? Have the girls been found? Has the naira improved? Has standard if living shot up? Do we still have freedom of speech and association? Has security improved? If the answers to all this is no and you're still here blaming Jonathan then you're not only daft but also a fool who will be led to the slaughter soon. Just imagine the audacity, blaming a man one year out of office, criticizing a man who isn't even opposing you anymore. Your party is a year in office and you're still campaigning?! What rubbish is that? Upon all Jonathan's "idiocy" we never experienced things this bad, he never blamed yaradua or OBJ, why must yours be different? Can't you take responsibility for once? If you have evidence arrest and try Jonathan, but if you don't then shut the hell up and face your 4 years 91 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by BushidoBlue(m): 6:53am On Feb 21, 2016 |
SexyKaycee: [size=18pt]Mark my words, one day APC will blame Nigerians for voting them into power.[/size] 109 Likes 15 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Teddeebear: 6:54am On Feb 21, 2016 |
midolian:you will need to work harder defending your champion. Because even the rich are feeling this heat. else you may blame gej till $1=N100000 32 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by shameseun: 7:15am On Feb 21, 2016 |
BushidoBlue: Guy they have blamed Nigerians already. When Liar Mohammed said that Nigerians misunderstood the CHANGE they meant, that they meant "CHANGE BEGINS WITH YOU" What he was invariably saying is that, if some had understood their own meaning of change, they would have voted wisely. 56 Likes 10 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by acenazt: 7:16am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Ugh i neva blame GEJ today. 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by BushidoBlue(m): 7:18am On Feb 21, 2016 |
shameseun: Haaaa Mogbe!!! 21 Likes |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Nobody: 7:22am On Feb 21, 2016 |
midolian: And he's probabling using PMB to explain what clueless means. 52 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by joseph1832(m): 7:27am On Feb 21, 2016 |
midolian:This was how it happened: "he is from a minority tribe", "he is a christian", "he was born poor", "ijaw have never ruled this country before", "must it always be hausa and yoruba who rule Nigeria?" Etc. Sentiment brought him there, thank goodness facts sent him packing. Bro, how you dey? Longest time? 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by sambisamann: 7:31am On Feb 21, 2016 |
someone is trying so hard to justify his brazen gullibility. Midolian, you have being scammed. get it over with. ![]() 27 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by divinehand2003(m): 7:37am On Feb 21, 2016 |
GEJ was a big failure for all I care. Having a PhD doesn't automatically transform you into being a great president. Leadership needs experience and GEJ lacked the much needed experience for leadership hence his gross failure. We saw a president that wasn't in charge of his administration. It's appalling. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by midolian(m): 7:41am On Feb 21, 2016 |
joseph1832:well said bro! We must not stop thanking God for sending the otueke clown packing. Its just sad that some has refused to see what a blessing baba is to us compared to jona cos they are too blind to see. I am good bro..its been a while. Hope u are good too ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by modath(f): 7:43am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Lame people can blame PMB as much as they like but it won't distract Sane & Patriotic Nigerians from deducing that the two unrelated events of 1. Driving Bullion Vans into CBN to pack FX to distribute to party members for an undeserved term elongation ![]() & 2.The catastrophic fall of global oil price +glut with no reserve in place to speak of +Zero infrastructure in place to cushion the effects nor any other commodity to bring in the needed funds to run the country are responsible for the dire economic straits the country is presently facing.... Not lliking PMB's tribe, calling another set betrayers doesn't negate the fact that the IB can't point to one tangible progress Otuoke, Bayelsa or Nigeria made under him which is why he and his nest of killers party self destructed & crashed at the polls.. However sentiments , bad belle & religious bias are allowed.. People need something to soothe their souls. ![]() Midolian, how are you? Life treating you nice i believe.. ![]() 16 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by midolian(m): 7:51am On Feb 21, 2016 |
modath:Meaningful posts as this is why I have missed u soo much. Yea..I believe u are doing good too. 11 Likes |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by nobilis: 7:51am On Feb 21, 2016 |
This blame game is becoming too much. We all know Jonathan messed up. But he is now out of office. We all know you're trying to right the wrongs of Jonathan. Why not stop the excessive talking and get down to business? Jonathan couldn't save for the rainy day in time of plenty. He couldn't diversify the economy when he should have. He dollarised the economy so much that we are seeing the repercussions now. He put us in this mess now. But Buhari should just focus on the work at hand and stop allowing the blame games make him relax. 1 Like |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Nobody: 8:07am On Feb 21, 2016 |
BushidoBlue: Just negodu Sha let's see them do that, Naija will burn them 1 Like |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Scholes007(m): 8:09am On Feb 21, 2016 |
modath:sane and patriotic nigerian you said? If you say someone is a the greatest failure as a sane and patriotic nigerian you should bring proofs why you said he is a disaster else you are been sentimental at the same time massaging you blunt ego of high intelligence. Nigerian leaders are all failures including buhari. For almost one year now all we have been hearing is arrest,recovered and unnecessary distraction from buhari lead administration with no exact direction or progress that seem to right the apc self acclaimed wrongs by Dr jonathan adminstration. 16 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Jonathan Presidency Was A Disaster Foretold (1) by Nobody: 8:10am On Feb 21, 2016 |
Op you side stepped my comment ![]() ![]() ![]() Lubbish, you just want to frat with saibabarians 5 Likes |
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