President Jonathan’s Legacy By Peregrino Brimah

The president of the federal republic
of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
said at the launching of two new
programs in Abuja, February
11th,that his legacies will outlive his
administration. Many Nigerians are
delighted as it appears the Nigeria’s
president since February 2010 is
making such statements as he wraps
up his reign and prepares to hand over
in 2015 at the end of his current
tenure and 8 years in Aso rock.
Nigeria’s president, Goodluck
Jonathan promised Nigerians that he
will not be contesting re-election.
It is true that the legacy of Goodluck
Jonathan and his administration will
long outlive him and be talked of,
written of and studied in Nigerian
schools for generations to come. Below
we tried to summarize 20 of his most
notable legacies:
1. World Cup 2010: Goodluck Jonathan
banned Nigeria’s football team from
all international competitions for two
years for their failure in the world
cup.
2. 2011 covenant to be elected: Dear
Nigerians, if you vote me in this 2011,
I promise I will not seek re-election in
2015. (This achievement is on hold as
Nigerians believe he is a man of honor
and he did not trick and defraud
them.)
3. September 2011 on Boko Haram:
Let me use this occasion to reassure
Nigerians and members of the
international communities that we now
have strong links as to those involved
in this terror war on Nigeria and
Nigerians. I have directed security
operatives to go after them, no
matter where they may be hiding. –As
at February 12th, 2014, he is yet to
accost a single terror mastermind and
thousands of civilians and soldiers
have died from the sponsored terror.
4. Again in January of 2012 the
president said of Boko Haram: Some
of them are in the executive arm of
government, some of them are in the
parliamentary/legislative arm of
government, while some of them are
even in the judiciary, some are also in
the armed forces, the police and
other security agencies. Some
continue to dip their hands and eat
with you and you won’t even know the
person who will point a gun at you or
plant a bomb behind your house…
5. Fuel Subsidy: For his January 2012
New Year’s gift to Nigerians by
attempting to remove the entire “fuel
subsidy” in one swoop to introduce the
year.
6. Fuel Subsidy 2: Conceding to
Nigerians that a cabal existed which
robbed the nation and this cabal was
beyond his power as executive
president to curtail and prosecute.
7. Fuel Subsidy 3: For wasting
Nigerians time by investigating the
fuel subsidy thieves only to never
prosecute them.
8. Jonathan Vs CNN’s Amanpour: The
electricity is improving it is only the
opposition that say it is not.
(Inferring that CNN’s anchor,
Christine Amanpour must be the
opposition.)
9. Words to Obama: For you to fix the
world, you must fix Africa. For you to
fix Africa, you must fix Nigeria.
10. On Corruption he is remembered
for saying: Corruption is not the
cause of all the problems confronting
Africa. (This is a reversal of his
earlier statement to Christian
Amanpour at the beginning of his
tenure, that corruption and power are
two of Nigeria’s top problems.)
11. On theft of Nigeria’s crude oil:
Stolen crude is refined abroad, not in
Nigeria so abroad is to blame for the
theft of our oil.
12. On winning elections: 16 > 19
13. Internationally: For missing his
speaking slot in May 2013 at the AU
50th anniversary occasion in Ethiopia.
14. Internationally 2: For again
missing the investment summit
meeting in UK, November 2013, where
he allegedly checked in to the hospital
for “hang-over.”
15. @ World Bank: Nigeria does not
have 100 million destitute—
Presidency. But Jonathan
government’s National Bureau of
Statistics, NBS: Sorry sir, but we do
have 100 million destitute, that’s data
from our office, Sir.
16. NNPC scams under his
administration to the tune of$10.8b,
$12b, $20b, $49.8b
17. $7bn Berne declaration expose on
sweet Swiss oil baron deals, labeled as
the “Greatest fraud Africa has ever
known.”
18. Forgetting the EFCC and ICPC
and setting up a Kangaroo panel on
BMW millions robbery scam Oduahgate.
The panel delivered a decision to sack
her which he again forgot.
19. For presenting a strong accusation
of political assassination but failing to
execute justice for murder. He said to
Obasanjo: There have certainly been
cases of political assassination since
the advent of our Fourth Republic, but
as you well know, none of them
occurred under my leadership.
20. For keeping Bamanga Tukur who
publicly declared support for Boko
Haram terrorists with the words,
“Boko Haram is fighting for justice;
Boko Haram is another name for
justice” as PDP chairman and then
quickly appointing him chairman of
Nigerian Railway.
Others include, Private jets, Dokubo,
Al Mustapha, the gay rapist released,
Eloping with Diezani, begging three
times failed NSA Gusau, keeping
Facrook in office and on payroll,
selling and non-selling refineries,
Tokunbo ban, road-use tax, national
debt and reserves, broke nation, naira
depreciation, and more and more…
The Goodluck Jonathan administration
which is an extension of the Obasanjo
administration has a little over a year
to complete its tenure. It is hoped
that the president will in this end
period try to do some bold and strong,
remarkable things, especially in the
line of top official impunity and
corruption, and terror sponsorship,
that will be remembered in positive
light when Jonathan’s legacy is
written and read.

Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng/ [Every Nigerian Do
Something]
Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter:
@EveryNigerian