Icheoku says isn't it now obvious that the cards are finally stacking up, in a well choreographed manner, all in their attempt to pay back President Jonathan for passing anti-gay marriage act in Nigeria? Icheoku knows the gay lobbyist would not rest until they draw their pound of flesh from the man who made it illegal for sodomy to thrive in Nigeria. In all their editorials, both the one from London and now this one from New York, none of them ever mentioned the fact that America refused to sell arms to Nigeria to help them fight Boko Haram; neither did they mention that the same America pressured out South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Israel from helping out. But here they are telling the world that President Jonathan failed woefully in tackling the menace of Boko Haram; meanwhile America is still engaged in tackling Al Queida in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and currently ISIS as well and their task is still ongoing in all these places and several decades later, despite being the world's ONLY super power?
But hey, Nigerians will decide who rules them come March 28 and not all these foreign vultures who do not mean well for black people especially those in black African continent. Imagine they are not questioning the rightness of a murderer and a man who truncated democracy from even standing for an election; but are busily telling Nigerians that their president failed woefully. This are the same guys who stood by as President Bush invaded Iraq, resulting in the crisis which is now enveloping the entire world with previously caged restless Islamists now freely killing and maiming people all over the world. But come March 28, Nigerians would tell all these naysayers to shove it as they would not choose a MURDERER as their president over a man who is trying his best under a very challenged and sabotaged environment and circumstance.
Icheoku says to hell with the New York Times and their attempt to play their own part in the David Axelrod organization well scripted code-derail Nigeria from continuously moving forward. Icheoku is emphatic that were all these pretenders sincere in their intention, they would have strongly resisted the thought of an itinerant human right violator and despot extraordinaire trying to preside over a democratic Nigeria. But no, what they would not take nor accept in their clime, they wish for Nigeria. What a hatchet job indeed, the NYT has just done; but luckily the voting Nigerians, majority of which are rural, do not read New York Times nor care about what their opinion is, concerning a purely internal affairs of Nigeria. Icheoku says it is Nigerian election, damn it. It is Nigerians election, stupid and ONLY Nigerians would vote to choose as they like. Icheoku says to hell with the New York Times and their editorial opinion which does not reflect the truism on the ground in Nigeria but merely pandering to their retainers.
The Opinion Pages | EDITORIAL
ReplyDeleteNigeria’s Miserable Choices
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD FEB. 16, 2015
The Nigerian government was supposed to hold presidential elections this past weekend, which presented voters with the dispiriting choice of keeping a lousy incumbent or returning to power a former autocratic leader. Now they will have to wait at least six weeks to cast votes.
The Nigerian election commission said earlier this month that it had pushed back the vote until at least March 28, after the country’s security chiefs warned that they could not guarantee the safety of voters in northeastern areas of the country where Boko Haram, the extremist militant group, captured international attention last spring when it abducted hundreds of schoolgirls. On Friday, Boko Haram fighters attacked a village in neighboring Chad for the first time, an alarming sign of the group’s expanding strength in a region that also includes areas of Cameroon and Niger.
Any argument to delay the vote might be more credible if President Goodluck Jonathan’s government had not spent much of the past year playing down the threat posed by the militants and if there were a reasonable expectation that the country’s weak military has the ability to improve security in a matter of weeks.
It appears more likely Mr. Jonathan grew alarmed by the surging appeal of Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who has vowed to crack down on Boko Haram. By dragging out the race, Mr. Jonathan stands to deplete his rival’s campaign coffers, while he continues to use state funds and institutions to bankroll his own.
That Mr. Buhari, who helped launch a coup against a democratically elected government in 1983 and ruled until late 1985, has emerged as potential winner is more of an indictment of Mr. Jonathan’s dismal rule than a recognition of the former military chief’s appeal.
Nigerian voters have grown increasingly worried about the stunning rise of Boko Haram, which has committed terrorist atrocities including bombings.
The abductions and attacks by the group have exposed the weaknesses of Nigeria’s armed forces and the dysfunction of the government. Although Mr. Jonathan’s government has in the past been less than enthusiastic, and at times obstructive, in response to offers of American and European aid, he appears to be growing increasingly worried. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal last week, he said he would welcome American troops to fight the insurgency.
Beyond security matters, entrenched corruption and the government’s inability to diversify its economy as the price of oil, the country’s financial bedrock, has fallen have also caused Nigerians to look for new leadership. Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, and a relatively young democracy, cannot afford an electoral crisis. That would only set back the faltering effort to reassert government control in districts where Boko Haram is sowing terror. The security forces may not be able to safeguard many districts on Election Day. But postponement is very likely to make the security threat worse.