Responding to my reply on his post recently, a respected senior of
mine Chief Joe Musa, the former D G of National Art Gallery, accused me
of being unfair to President Jonathan because I challenged him and some
of his supporters to enumerate the so called achievements of Mr.
President.
I am at lost as to why any Nigerian should hate another Nigerian.
Therefore I am not able to see the sense in accusing people who queries
government’s incompetence of hatred against President Jonathan. Me, I
love President Jonathan and I have nothing personal against him, but
truth must be told if we really want to move forward as a nation.
Honestly it will be unkind of anybody to say that any one is working
hard to discredit a president who lacks credibility in the first place.
There are signs of corruption under Jonathan’s administration starting
with 2.6trillion on fuel subsidy in a year that only 245 billion Naira
was appropriated for same. There was N32 billion police pension scam,
industrial scale theft of crude oil worth about $2 billion monthly and
N53 billion NCC spectrum scale racket or the 24 million barrels of oil
worth $1.6 billion stolen through signature forgery monthly according to
minister Aganga. Not to talk of the bullet proof Stella Odauh?
GEJ’S administration is best of the best for spending a whooping N400
billion on amnesty programme sending Nigerian youths abroad to learn
crafts and other skills without realizing that it would have made more
sense establishing vocational centres in the Niger Delta. We are talking
about 400 billion Naira. Do you have an idea how many vocational
centres can be established that would have trained and continue to
re-train people from Niger Delta and possibly from other parts of
Nigeria from that kind of money?
Some also queried N1.7 trillion heist in the NNPC where the money was
spent by the co-operation without appropriation, and 300 billion Naira
late president Yar’adua kept for the Niger Delta before he went into
comma from which he never came back?
What about the alarm recently raised by Mr President’s Coordinating
Minister and Minister for Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iwoala in Davos
Switzerland that the Nigerian economy was under threat because on GEJ's
watch, the excess crude oil account has been depleted from $8.55 billion
to an alarming $2.5 billion within a year and so also has our foreign
reserves depleted?
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And I ask: who is to be blamed for all these shameful acts under
Jonathan's administration? Should we exonerate him just because he is
Igbo, Ijaw or Southerner?
Unfortunately those who are singing Mr. President’s praise are not
able to point to what he has achieved in almost 5 years as a president.
Yet they want us to blindly allow him to continue to waste our time on
the account of him being a southerner. That is unfair!
I will rather we ask a Donald Duke, an Okorocha or a Fashola to
contest if we must have a president of southern Nigeria origin and not a
Jonathan please.
And to be sincere with Nigerians, let me state that President
Jonathan do not need one thousand years to show what he can do. After
all Fashola made things happen in two years into his administration's
first tenure. Aregbesola, Sullivan Chime, Akpabio, Amechi, Rochas and
all of them that are performers in this era showed their qualities two
years into their administration. It will be unfair to allow President
Jonathan to continue to waste our time.
The danger of allowing President Jonathan to continue after 2015 is
that we will have ten years of misadventures adding up to the wasted
years of other PDP presidents before him. Having spent almost six years
in power, there is no magic left with this administration other than to
result to desperation and treasury looting. Unfortunately, Mr President
does not see the correlation between corruption and poverty. Or he is
pretending not to know? And that is an unfair treatment of Nigerians by
someone who claims that he is working to liberate Nigeria from poverty.
Truth is that all these so called plans by President Jonathan is a
deceit and a waste of our time. We are used to hearing beautiful plans
from him and we are tired of them.
In the four years of his administration Nigerians have been fed with
high sounding proposals and humongous master plans none of which have
seen the light of the day. But unfortunately there are still many
gullible Nigerians who still believe these lies and desperate antics of
Mr. President and the PDP to remain in power.
For example, on the 2nd of March 2011 in Akure, Ondo State, President
Jonathan promised that "the bitumen deposits in the state would be
exploited for economic development and employment generation." He
promised to "provide funds for small and medium scale enterprises,
mechanised farming and agro-based industries" and to "partner with
relevant agencies to harness the agrarian nature of the State." He also
promised to "open up the flank of semi and mechanized farming in the
State to engender a paradigm shift from subsistence farming to reliable
modern agricultural practices."
To quote Ayo Arannilewa, ‘’I so much doubt if any of the promises has
been fulfilled so far, as none of the projects is even in the 2014
budget for the benefit of Ondo people’’.
Time will not permit me to tell you of how this administration played
ostrich a few months ago by selling our national electricity companies
at give away prices to Mr President’s friends, leaving Nigerian people
at the mercy of crass capitalists who are unable to muster the
investment required to improve energy. Since handing over to these so
called investors, the situation has gone worst, yet Nigerians are paying
bills because a government that claims to move them forward left them
to be exploited.
Sentiment apart, with President Jonathan in the driver’s seat in the
years ahead, we are not going to make the desired progress.
Great Imo Jonathan is the CEO of Sunset Streams Company and publisher of Power Point Magazine
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