ICHEOKU says but for this guy's crass, clueless ineptitude, as well as his Tin-man/Scarecrow's level of pitiable, wimpy cowardice, he would be completing his second term in office by now and also, Nigerians would have been spared and saved from the unmitigated disaster that is the bloody skeletal effigy in Aso Rock. But his linguine spine got the better part of him and he surrendered the PDP's presidency to a man who has been three times severally defeated in the past and who had taken a retirement from politics, but was urged on by some political and economic vultures to come out of his retirement and they used him to get hold of the Nigeria's treasury as well as the political structure.
President Muhammadu Buhari was three times in the past rejected by the Nigerian people in three failed presidential bids, until a cowering and whimpering spineless Goodluck Jonathan surrendered the keys of Aso Rock to him and without even mounting a fight, not even a perfunctory one. That action of surrender reverberated throughout Nigeria and it's fallout is still being felt today. Nigerians are still regretting that single act of betrayal by a man who promised them a breathe of fresh air, but ended up suffocating them with trachea-singeing, putrid carbon monoxide, instead. That displayed cowardice by the coward of Otuoke, bequeathed Nigerians with the unwanted deadly cargo in Aso Rock, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Therefore ICHEOKU does not need to read any book, particularly one written or rather made up by the same person, who is now trying to become a revisionist, by giving a self effacing and burnishing, different account of what everybody witnessed happen. ICHEOKU says not this time, as every right thinking Nigerian have refused to be led by the nose, bamboozled and flabbergasted and also flummoxed, by a tepid account of what happened through the eyes of Jonathan Goodluck. These thinking Nigerians, therefore resolutely rejects the self righteous tales by the moonlight aka "My Transition Hours" by former president Jonathan Goodluck as a pure work of fiction of his imagination which has no intersection with what indeed truly happened. ICHEOKU paraphrasing Zainab Duke Abiola, reiterates that "My Transition Hours" by Jonathan Goodluck is a mere work of fiction and in her own words, "a pseudologia fantastica; a monumental manipulation of historical facts and figures."
Therefore ICHEOKU does not need to read any book, particularly one written or rather made up by the same person, who is now trying to become a revisionist, by giving a self effacing and burnishing, different account of what everybody witnessed happen. ICHEOKU says not this time, as every right thinking Nigerian have refused to be led by the nose, bamboozled and flabbergasted and also flummoxed, by a tepid account of what happened through the eyes of Jonathan Goodluck. These thinking Nigerians, therefore resolutely rejects the self righteous tales by the moonlight aka "My Transition Hours" by former president Jonathan Goodluck as a pure work of fiction of his imagination which has no intersection with what indeed truly happened. ICHEOKU paraphrasing Zainab Duke Abiola, reiterates that "My Transition Hours" by Jonathan Goodluck is a mere work of fiction and in her own words, "a pseudologia fantastica; a monumental manipulation of historical facts and figures."
ICHEOKU says the worst part of what Jonathan did, preceding to that presidential election 2015, was that he denied and deprived other highly qualified and more courageous and capable PDP potential presidential candidates, the opportunity of a primaries to vie for the presidential ticket; only for him to later surrender the presidency to the other party, and you wonder what was he thinking or rather drinking or even smoking? Why such a great betrayal of party's interest, knowing fully well that he does not possess the mojo needed to confront Buhari or his heavily propagandizing APC. If he knows that he was not equal to the task and could not handle Buhari successfully, why did he seize the presidential ticket of the PDP, only to later pony it up to the other side.
Actually, Goodluck Jonathan ought to be investigated by the PDP for his role in bringing about Muhammadu Buhari's presidency; because the opportunity which he denied other more competent and more capable PDP honchos, he surrendered without a fight to the clueless and certificate-less, old and tired, Muhammadu Buhari.
ICHEOKU says cunningly enough and in the manner of all cowards, Goodluck Jonathan has blamed everyone else but himself, including the Americans and the Brits, for his losing the 2015 presidential election. ICHEOKU says does not think that the Americans and the Brits cost him the election, as the election was lost a long time ago even before the election held and strictly due to Jonathan and nobody else. ICHEOKU says emphatically that Goodluck Jonathan lost his reelection bid long before the March 29, 2015 when election was held. How could any reasonable and rational person, going to war with someone, choose that other person's kinsmen as his fighting force. How did Jonathan convince himself that his Fulani appointees in high places were going to loyally fight on his behalf, against their own Fulani brother, when the publicly stated goal-objective of the entire North is that power moved back to the North.
Unthinkingness has never been so brazenly, better defined, as what Goodluck did to himself preparatory to that election 2015. He was going to battle a Fulani man for the presidency of Nigeria and his first order of business was to fire an Igbo INEC chairman Maurice Iwu and replaced him with a Fulani Attahiru Muhammdu Jega, from Buhari's nearby Kebbi State? Jonathan also fired an Igbo IG of Police Ogbonna Onovo and replaced him with three successive Fulani, Hafiz Ringim, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar and Suleiman Abba, from Buhari's neighboring Jigawa State, who supervised the election security. as if that was not enough handicap already, Jonathan fired an Igbo COAS Ihejirika and replaced him with MInimah and so close to the election. As if possessed by a demon of loss, Jonathan again appointed another Northern Fulani Bello Haliru Mohammed from Buhari's neighboring Kebbi State as his campaign chairman. Jonathan also named another Northerner Ahmadu Ali his campaign director general.
ICHEOKU says how any intelligent person could make such choices, fully aware of the determination of the North to wrestle power back, is simply beyond ICHEOKU's comprehension. Goodluck Jonathan was aware of the publicly stated goal of the North that power move back to the North, and by extension that these Northerners are fully vested in the Northern agenda that power returned to the North and will therefore not work their hearts out to achieve victory for Goodluck Jonathan, but he went strong headed anyway. The result was obvious as these fellas did not put their 100% effort in the reelection campaign effort and some of them looked the other way as elections were rigged for the benefit of their Northern brother and of course millions of underage almajiri voters, who publicly queued up and voted. Probably Jonathan was under the influence of some clear liquid when he decided as he decided; or possibly too under a great spell that separated his decisions from logic thinking.
Therefore, Goodluck Jonathan has not told Nigerians just yet, how and why he lost the election or what indeed forced his hands to concede the election so soon and immediately, even before INEC has finished their collation of results. ICHEOKU is emphatic that the real story of that election has never been told, convinced that Jonathan is hiding some pivotal information from the Nigerian pubic. There are so many things the book did not contain nor addressed or answered; and it was a deliberate decision by Jonathan to omit them because they are indeed rather damaging. For instance, why did the book not tell Nigerians why Goodluck Jonathan did not win the MO Ibrahim leadership award for Africa. A $5 million award with a $200,000 yearly allowance for life to former African leaders who showed exemplary, corruption-free leadership.
This is the real reason Goodluck Jonathan ponied up the presidency, so quickly and so fast and more than Usain Bolt could do his 9seconds 100 meters dash, because America threatened to go public with his level of corruption and publicly announce measures to hold Jonathan accountable. That Jonathan stashed close to a $1 billion for himself, part of which came from his $431 million share of the Malabo oil scandal, is a highly sourced information. It was for this reason that President Muhammadu Buhari repeatedly assured him that he will be protected and that nothing will happen to him, either extradition or prosecution, under his watch. But Nigerians did not care to find out from where Dame Patience got all the millions of dollars floating about including the "seized" $15 million which she first claimed was her mother's, later maid's, before finally going to court to have the money released to her as her "earned" money. This is a woman who was selling road side food in a bukateria before she married Jonathan and suddenly worth millions of dollars.
So, the boy who once had no shoes from the creeks of Otuoke, was as corrupt as it gets; and he also handsomely helped himself from the Nigeria's treasury. This is the sword of Damocles that was hanging over his head, which forced him to concede the election immediately and unconditionally, as a condition to save his butt from it being kicked around by the Americans and their anti corruption buzzards. Why has the supposed alter-boy and Eagle Scout Goodluck Jonathan not been invited or feted by any world leader ever since he was forced out of Aso Rock? His security dossier is filled with stinking stench of corruption and people who are plugged knows this and Jonathan knows this, the reason he has cleverly been avoiding certain countries ever since he was literary hounded out of Aso Rock.
Anyway, without much further ado or continuing adumbration of a book which is as hollow as hollow can get, ICHEOKU will like Goodluck Jonathan to throw more light on the following and explain why they did not make it into his book of transition or transmission or transfiguration or whatever trans that suits him. If he explains them satisfactorily or may be writes another book of the real things that forced him out of Aso Rock, ICHEOKU promises to buy 1000 copies of his edited Transition book or the the subsequent one of explanation which he will write and distribute them to libraries and colleges/universities for free. Until then, the composition in his "My Transition Hours" is not worth the white papers they are written on; just a balderdash of complete hogwash bunkum by a lily livered fellow who has no balls and who turned tail and flee away from Aso Rock just because another man challenged him to a fight for the right of occupation of Aso Rock. ICHEOKU says please not in our name, Oh Jonathan.
Now the questions which did not find themselves answered in the Transition book:
1. Why Jonathan fired all Ndigbo heads of Police IGP Ogbonna Onovo, Army COAS Ihejirika, Immigration Rosemary Uzoma, National Population Commission chairman Festus Odimegwu, INEC's Maurice Iwu, PDP chairmen Vincent Ogbulafor and Okwy Nwodo and in their places, appointed Fulani men as their replacements.
2. Why Jonathan refused to construct the 2nd River Niger Bridge?
3. Why Jonathan refused to appoint Dora Akunyili a Minister and watched as they poisoned her, for daring to facilitate Jonathan's presidency. Dora Akunyili moved that the same Jonathan be allowed to replace the incapacitated President Umaru Yar'Adua as president, yet Jonathan threw her away and under the bus. So, why was there no explanation in the book of Transition?
4. Why Jonathan called a man who made him president, Olusegun Obasanjo, a motor park tout and after accepting the benefit of Nigeria's president from the same man he later insulted before a delegation of some Fulani nomads at Aso Rock?
5. Why Jonathan prevented the entire Ndigbo from occupying any of the headship of the three branches of government, the first time in the recorded history of Nigeria that Ndigbo were completely excluded and marginalized from the government at the center in Nigeria. Not the presidency, not the vice presidency, not the Chief Justice, not the Appellate Court president, not the speaker of the House or President of the Senate. None, zilch and nada and for such a large component of the Nigerian State with over 80 million people?
6. Why Jonathan did not avenge the deaths of the 161 DSS officers slaughtered by the Eggon Ombatse Cult in Nasarawa State, but chose to leave it in the hands of "God", according to his then Director General of DSS, Ota Ekpenyong?
7. Why Jonathan watched as former NSA Patrick Aziza and Kaduna State Governor Patrick Dakowa were blown up in a staged helicopter crash in Bayelsa State?
8, Why Jonathan did not allow the NSA Patrick Aziza to arrest Muhammadu Buhari when he was inciting riots and threatening Nigeria's peace with his many terrorist utterances and pronouncements? But failed to protect the same Aziza from the same people he was trying to protect Jonathan from, who later had him killed for daring to protect Jonathan through a security condone around the then president?
8. Why Jonathan did not allow COAS Ihejirika to raid Daura Emirate to confiscate many caches of weapons that were imported into the country for bad intentions and stashed in Daura by the same people; just because the Emir of Daura kicked against it threatening that he will not allow any soldier to search his emirate?
9. Why Jonathan allowed Sanuis Lamido Sanusi to be turbaned as Emir of Kano after the running ins he had with him, especially when Sanusi distributed Nigeria's money in the CBN as if they were his personal money and spent them on his Islamic causes, giving Kano State N500 million, just like that. Sanusi also accused Jonathan and his government of stealing $21 billion NNPC money without a proof, yet Jonathan chickened away when he could have exerted his pound of flesh, including wasting him if it gets to that.
10. Why Jonathan tolerated 5 other pseudo-presidents of Nigeria and in Nigeria, concurrently holding presidential forte alongside him. Jonathan allowed them to have a free range during his presidency and they did much harm to and in fact damaged his presidential authority. It is a public knowledge that Olusegun Obasanjo, Edwin Clark, Friday Tompolo, Asari Dokubo and of course the Sultan of Sokoto, each had a field day either attacking Jonathan or countering his policies and declarations, yet they were allowed to sleep with their two eyes closed in Nigeria. Something nobody could have dared under Obasanjo or even Yar'Adua nor could any try it were ICHEOKU president, but they did it anyway, knowing that the coward of Otuoke has no liver.
11. Why Jonathan did not walk away when he was left abandoned by the Oba of Benin who refused to see him when he visited his palace; and left him sitting there alone like an unwanted leprechaun.
12. Why Jonathan, so disgracefully knelt down before those Yar'Adua women in Katsina?
13. Why Jonathan gave that defeatist speech at the onset of his government where he said that he was not a retired army general nor a despot and cannot tell Nigerians how to behave or order them around? The worst speech ever given by a leader and it came back to haunt him down and eventually succeeded in evicting him out of Aso Rock.
14. Why Jonathan so belittled the presidency that he was attending nearly every weddings, funerals, birthday parties as well as anniversaries and naming ceremonies, etc. He became the proverbial "iyolu mu, mu ju" type; just ask and Jonathan will be there, smiling like he has nothing else better to do or any place better to be, except among levelers and drunks, floating in debauchery and licentiousness; and this is a president of a country, right?
15. Why Jonathan tolerated the 7 renegade PDP governors without moving the earth to have them defanged. All he needed to do was issue the order and if not carried out, replace and fire the chief of the service and/or agency responsible and let the heavens fall.
16. Why Jonathan built those Fulani herdsmen almajiri schools without building equivalent fishing and farming kids schools, both in the Ijaw riverine Niger Delta and the faming communities of the Middle Belt and the Southeast.
17. Why Jonathan released Sani Abacha's enforcer Mustapha from prison and without extracting concessions from the North especially Kano State Kwankwaso. And what he said to the families who lost their loved ones in that monster's blood thirsty hands, including Pa Rewane, Kudirat Abiola and others?
18. Why Jonathan did not insist that Enoch Adeobye publicly laid hands on him as he did previously and confront him on his support of Buhari because his pastor Osibanjo was his running mate?
19. Why Jonathan did not lead effectively and with square shoulders, but led from the behind, deferring to any tom, dick and harry in Nigeria, especially among the elites when he is the CNC and at his disposal were all manners of unleashing terror, if needed.
20. Why Jonathan did not go to the Russians to checkmate Obama and procured weapons needed to fight Boko Haram and fought them decisively despite the Muritala Nyako;s of Nigeria and their charge of genocide.
21. Why did Jonathan, the man who once said that he does not give a crappy damn and was prepared to die for Nigeria suddenly morphed into something else and became morbidly afraid of dying and started giving a damn about what Obama had to say or what Muritala Nyako said.
In short, Goodluck Jonathan was over his head in the inept manner in which he ran his presidency and which was the catalyst that quickened his ouster. He was clueless as he was timid and he inspired no one. His sense of fashion was tardy and not sharp; admitted he is from the Niger Delta; but as president of Nigeria should have mixed his fashion a little more to make it more cosmopolitan. What stopped him from wearing Ijaw attire on Monday, Itsekiri's on Tuesday, Fulani/Hausa's on Wednesday, Igbo on Thursday, Yoruba on Friday, Western the next week's Monday and just keep on rotating it and that way look more inclusive than the perpetual Ijaw stuff. Not impressed.
It is also on record that the same time he was commander in chief of the Nigeria military, he also had the police, the DSS as well as other militias including OPC, MEND and MASSOB who were readily at his disposal and would have protected and defended his presidency to death, had he but showed some steely resolve. ICHEOKU prayed that he had some balls to dare the Fulani to strike him dead as that would have unraveled Nigeria as the people were prepared for a showdown with those bullying mallams, but Jonathan chickened out, leaving millions fallen crested.
Weakness, weakness and weakness only, did Jonathan in and cost him the presidency, his second term that is. ICHEOKU gave him the moniker "COWARD OF OTUOKE" for this reason; it was rightly earned, and that is exactly what he is. How any man would allow a fellow man to chase him out of Aso Rock without a fight is simply mind boggling and mind bending. Put in another way, Jonathan made himself a rat and the cats had him for lunch, case closed. This is a man who he defeated before and before that, was defeated by Umaru Yar'Adua and before Umaru, Obasanjo defeated him too.
But a whimpering Jonathan just gave it up to save himself from his imaginary enemies, including for fear of an American war ship, stationed off the coast of Ghana. But what he failed to understand is that American Naval forces are always patrolling the seas and oceans; and possibly was merely waiting to evacuate American citizens in Nigeria should law and order break down; but he did as all cowards normally do, passed out before even the first shot was fired. What a man indeed he is, thanks to Dame Patience who castrated him a long time ago and turned him into the apology he became. Any leadership requires either respect or fear to succeed; but with Jonathan, he was neither respected nor feared and that spelt his Waterloo. SAD.
Actually, Goodluck Jonathan ought to be investigated by the PDP for his role in bringing about Muhammadu Buhari's presidency; because the opportunity which he denied other more competent and more capable PDP honchos, he surrendered without a fight to the clueless and certificate-less, old and tired, Muhammadu Buhari.
ICHEOKU says cunningly enough and in the manner of all cowards, Goodluck Jonathan has blamed everyone else but himself, including the Americans and the Brits, for his losing the 2015 presidential election. ICHEOKU says does not think that the Americans and the Brits cost him the election, as the election was lost a long time ago even before the election held and strictly due to Jonathan and nobody else. ICHEOKU says emphatically that Goodluck Jonathan lost his reelection bid long before the March 29, 2015 when election was held. How could any reasonable and rational person, going to war with someone, choose that other person's kinsmen as his fighting force. How did Jonathan convince himself that his Fulani appointees in high places were going to loyally fight on his behalf, against their own Fulani brother, when the publicly stated goal-objective of the entire North is that power moved back to the North.
Unthinkingness has never been so brazenly, better defined, as what Goodluck did to himself preparatory to that election 2015. He was going to battle a Fulani man for the presidency of Nigeria and his first order of business was to fire an Igbo INEC chairman Maurice Iwu and replaced him with a Fulani Attahiru Muhammdu Jega, from Buhari's nearby Kebbi State? Jonathan also fired an Igbo IG of Police Ogbonna Onovo and replaced him with three successive Fulani, Hafiz Ringim, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar and Suleiman Abba, from Buhari's neighboring Jigawa State, who supervised the election security. as if that was not enough handicap already, Jonathan fired an Igbo COAS Ihejirika and replaced him with MInimah and so close to the election. As if possessed by a demon of loss, Jonathan again appointed another Northern Fulani Bello Haliru Mohammed from Buhari's neighboring Kebbi State as his campaign chairman. Jonathan also named another Northerner Ahmadu Ali his campaign director general.
ICHEOKU says how any intelligent person could make such choices, fully aware of the determination of the North to wrestle power back, is simply beyond ICHEOKU's comprehension. Goodluck Jonathan was aware of the publicly stated goal of the North that power move back to the North, and by extension that these Northerners are fully vested in the Northern agenda that power returned to the North and will therefore not work their hearts out to achieve victory for Goodluck Jonathan, but he went strong headed anyway. The result was obvious as these fellas did not put their 100% effort in the reelection campaign effort and some of them looked the other way as elections were rigged for the benefit of their Northern brother and of course millions of underage almajiri voters, who publicly queued up and voted. Probably Jonathan was under the influence of some clear liquid when he decided as he decided; or possibly too under a great spell that separated his decisions from logic thinking.
Therefore, Goodluck Jonathan has not told Nigerians just yet, how and why he lost the election or what indeed forced his hands to concede the election so soon and immediately, even before INEC has finished their collation of results. ICHEOKU is emphatic that the real story of that election has never been told, convinced that Jonathan is hiding some pivotal information from the Nigerian pubic. There are so many things the book did not contain nor addressed or answered; and it was a deliberate decision by Jonathan to omit them because they are indeed rather damaging. For instance, why did the book not tell Nigerians why Goodluck Jonathan did not win the MO Ibrahim leadership award for Africa. A $5 million award with a $200,000 yearly allowance for life to former African leaders who showed exemplary, corruption-free leadership.
This is the real reason Goodluck Jonathan ponied up the presidency, so quickly and so fast and more than Usain Bolt could do his 9seconds 100 meters dash, because America threatened to go public with his level of corruption and publicly announce measures to hold Jonathan accountable. That Jonathan stashed close to a $1 billion for himself, part of which came from his $431 million share of the Malabo oil scandal, is a highly sourced information. It was for this reason that President Muhammadu Buhari repeatedly assured him that he will be protected and that nothing will happen to him, either extradition or prosecution, under his watch. But Nigerians did not care to find out from where Dame Patience got all the millions of dollars floating about including the "seized" $15 million which she first claimed was her mother's, later maid's, before finally going to court to have the money released to her as her "earned" money. This is a woman who was selling road side food in a bukateria before she married Jonathan and suddenly worth millions of dollars.
So, the boy who once had no shoes from the creeks of Otuoke, was as corrupt as it gets; and he also handsomely helped himself from the Nigeria's treasury. This is the sword of Damocles that was hanging over his head, which forced him to concede the election immediately and unconditionally, as a condition to save his butt from it being kicked around by the Americans and their anti corruption buzzards. Why has the supposed alter-boy and Eagle Scout Goodluck Jonathan not been invited or feted by any world leader ever since he was forced out of Aso Rock? His security dossier is filled with stinking stench of corruption and people who are plugged knows this and Jonathan knows this, the reason he has cleverly been avoiding certain countries ever since he was literary hounded out of Aso Rock.
Anyway, without much further ado or continuing adumbration of a book which is as hollow as hollow can get, ICHEOKU will like Goodluck Jonathan to throw more light on the following and explain why they did not make it into his book of transition or transmission or transfiguration or whatever trans that suits him. If he explains them satisfactorily or may be writes another book of the real things that forced him out of Aso Rock, ICHEOKU promises to buy 1000 copies of his edited Transition book or the the subsequent one of explanation which he will write and distribute them to libraries and colleges/universities for free. Until then, the composition in his "My Transition Hours" is not worth the white papers they are written on; just a balderdash of complete hogwash bunkum by a lily livered fellow who has no balls and who turned tail and flee away from Aso Rock just because another man challenged him to a fight for the right of occupation of Aso Rock. ICHEOKU says please not in our name, Oh Jonathan.
Now the questions which did not find themselves answered in the Transition book:
1. Why Jonathan fired all Ndigbo heads of Police IGP Ogbonna Onovo, Army COAS Ihejirika, Immigration Rosemary Uzoma, National Population Commission chairman Festus Odimegwu, INEC's Maurice Iwu, PDP chairmen Vincent Ogbulafor and Okwy Nwodo and in their places, appointed Fulani men as their replacements.
2. Why Jonathan refused to construct the 2nd River Niger Bridge?
3. Why Jonathan refused to appoint Dora Akunyili a Minister and watched as they poisoned her, for daring to facilitate Jonathan's presidency. Dora Akunyili moved that the same Jonathan be allowed to replace the incapacitated President Umaru Yar'Adua as president, yet Jonathan threw her away and under the bus. So, why was there no explanation in the book of Transition?
4. Why Jonathan called a man who made him president, Olusegun Obasanjo, a motor park tout and after accepting the benefit of Nigeria's president from the same man he later insulted before a delegation of some Fulani nomads at Aso Rock?
5. Why Jonathan prevented the entire Ndigbo from occupying any of the headship of the three branches of government, the first time in the recorded history of Nigeria that Ndigbo were completely excluded and marginalized from the government at the center in Nigeria. Not the presidency, not the vice presidency, not the Chief Justice, not the Appellate Court president, not the speaker of the House or President of the Senate. None, zilch and nada and for such a large component of the Nigerian State with over 80 million people?
6. Why Jonathan did not avenge the deaths of the 161 DSS officers slaughtered by the Eggon Ombatse Cult in Nasarawa State, but chose to leave it in the hands of "God", according to his then Director General of DSS, Ota Ekpenyong?
7. Why Jonathan watched as former NSA Patrick Aziza and Kaduna State Governor Patrick Dakowa were blown up in a staged helicopter crash in Bayelsa State?
8, Why Jonathan did not allow the NSA Patrick Aziza to arrest Muhammadu Buhari when he was inciting riots and threatening Nigeria's peace with his many terrorist utterances and pronouncements? But failed to protect the same Aziza from the same people he was trying to protect Jonathan from, who later had him killed for daring to protect Jonathan through a security condone around the then president?
8. Why Jonathan did not allow COAS Ihejirika to raid Daura Emirate to confiscate many caches of weapons that were imported into the country for bad intentions and stashed in Daura by the same people; just because the Emir of Daura kicked against it threatening that he will not allow any soldier to search his emirate?
9. Why Jonathan allowed Sanuis Lamido Sanusi to be turbaned as Emir of Kano after the running ins he had with him, especially when Sanusi distributed Nigeria's money in the CBN as if they were his personal money and spent them on his Islamic causes, giving Kano State N500 million, just like that. Sanusi also accused Jonathan and his government of stealing $21 billion NNPC money without a proof, yet Jonathan chickened away when he could have exerted his pound of flesh, including wasting him if it gets to that.
10. Why Jonathan tolerated 5 other pseudo-presidents of Nigeria and in Nigeria, concurrently holding presidential forte alongside him. Jonathan allowed them to have a free range during his presidency and they did much harm to and in fact damaged his presidential authority. It is a public knowledge that Olusegun Obasanjo, Edwin Clark, Friday Tompolo, Asari Dokubo and of course the Sultan of Sokoto, each had a field day either attacking Jonathan or countering his policies and declarations, yet they were allowed to sleep with their two eyes closed in Nigeria. Something nobody could have dared under Obasanjo or even Yar'Adua nor could any try it were ICHEOKU president, but they did it anyway, knowing that the coward of Otuoke has no liver.
11. Why Jonathan did not walk away when he was left abandoned by the Oba of Benin who refused to see him when he visited his palace; and left him sitting there alone like an unwanted leprechaun.
12. Why Jonathan, so disgracefully knelt down before those Yar'Adua women in Katsina?
13. Why Jonathan gave that defeatist speech at the onset of his government where he said that he was not a retired army general nor a despot and cannot tell Nigerians how to behave or order them around? The worst speech ever given by a leader and it came back to haunt him down and eventually succeeded in evicting him out of Aso Rock.
14. Why Jonathan so belittled the presidency that he was attending nearly every weddings, funerals, birthday parties as well as anniversaries and naming ceremonies, etc. He became the proverbial "iyolu mu, mu ju" type; just ask and Jonathan will be there, smiling like he has nothing else better to do or any place better to be, except among levelers and drunks, floating in debauchery and licentiousness; and this is a president of a country, right?
15. Why Jonathan tolerated the 7 renegade PDP governors without moving the earth to have them defanged. All he needed to do was issue the order and if not carried out, replace and fire the chief of the service and/or agency responsible and let the heavens fall.
16. Why Jonathan built those Fulani herdsmen almajiri schools without building equivalent fishing and farming kids schools, both in the Ijaw riverine Niger Delta and the faming communities of the Middle Belt and the Southeast.
17. Why Jonathan released Sani Abacha's enforcer Mustapha from prison and without extracting concessions from the North especially Kano State Kwankwaso. And what he said to the families who lost their loved ones in that monster's blood thirsty hands, including Pa Rewane, Kudirat Abiola and others?
18. Why Jonathan did not insist that Enoch Adeobye publicly laid hands on him as he did previously and confront him on his support of Buhari because his pastor Osibanjo was his running mate?
19. Why Jonathan did not lead effectively and with square shoulders, but led from the behind, deferring to any tom, dick and harry in Nigeria, especially among the elites when he is the CNC and at his disposal were all manners of unleashing terror, if needed.
20. Why Jonathan did not go to the Russians to checkmate Obama and procured weapons needed to fight Boko Haram and fought them decisively despite the Muritala Nyako;s of Nigeria and their charge of genocide.
21. Why did Jonathan, the man who once said that he does not give a crappy damn and was prepared to die for Nigeria suddenly morphed into something else and became morbidly afraid of dying and started giving a damn about what Obama had to say or what Muritala Nyako said.
In short, Goodluck Jonathan was over his head in the inept manner in which he ran his presidency and which was the catalyst that quickened his ouster. He was clueless as he was timid and he inspired no one. His sense of fashion was tardy and not sharp; admitted he is from the Niger Delta; but as president of Nigeria should have mixed his fashion a little more to make it more cosmopolitan. What stopped him from wearing Ijaw attire on Monday, Itsekiri's on Tuesday, Fulani/Hausa's on Wednesday, Igbo on Thursday, Yoruba on Friday, Western the next week's Monday and just keep on rotating it and that way look more inclusive than the perpetual Ijaw stuff. Not impressed.
It is also on record that the same time he was commander in chief of the Nigeria military, he also had the police, the DSS as well as other militias including OPC, MEND and MASSOB who were readily at his disposal and would have protected and defended his presidency to death, had he but showed some steely resolve. ICHEOKU prayed that he had some balls to dare the Fulani to strike him dead as that would have unraveled Nigeria as the people were prepared for a showdown with those bullying mallams, but Jonathan chickened out, leaving millions fallen crested.
Weakness, weakness and weakness only, did Jonathan in and cost him the presidency, his second term that is. ICHEOKU gave him the moniker "COWARD OF OTUOKE" for this reason; it was rightly earned, and that is exactly what he is. How any man would allow a fellow man to chase him out of Aso Rock without a fight is simply mind boggling and mind bending. Put in another way, Jonathan made himself a rat and the cats had him for lunch, case closed. This is a man who he defeated before and before that, was defeated by Umaru Yar'Adua and before Umaru, Obasanjo defeated him too.
But a whimpering Jonathan just gave it up to save himself from his imaginary enemies, including for fear of an American war ship, stationed off the coast of Ghana. But what he failed to understand is that American Naval forces are always patrolling the seas and oceans; and possibly was merely waiting to evacuate American citizens in Nigeria should law and order break down; but he did as all cowards normally do, passed out before even the first shot was fired. What a man indeed he is, thanks to Dame Patience who castrated him a long time ago and turned him into the apology he became. Any leadership requires either respect or fear to succeed; but with Jonathan, he was neither respected nor feared and that spelt his Waterloo. SAD.
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