With the way governor Osiomhole have been critiquing and coughing up allegations of purported mismanagement of public funds, Reno Omokri a former aide to former president Jonathan comes to defend his former boss in a new article. read below;
On July 17, 2012, a recently re-elected Governor Adams
Oshiomhole visited Aso Rock Presidential Villa and on his
way out he had a chat with State House Correspondents
and said as follows “what the Edo election has confirmed is
that when the President and Commander-in-Chief puts the
country first and conducts himself as a statesman, not just
as a party leader, credible elections are possible, because
people were apprehensive that the Nigerian Army could be
misused. But of course, I told them I didn’t think they were
right, but the President’s clear directive was that the votes
must count."
The former labour leader continued in his praise of then President
Jonathan saying "We need to appreciate the President and
encourage him to sustain this principle of truly reminding all of us,
who hold political office, that we are at the mercy of the electorate,
not of the Presidency. I think the President has done that. The
President has demonstrated statesmanship. I think there is hope
for Nigeria”.
Going by the statement he made above, many Nigerians were
shocked to read his recent statement on August 23rd, 2015 where
he said inter alia "if the Igbos were marginalized, it was President
Jonathan and the PDP. If Nigerians know what these people did,
they will stone them to death – jungle justice."
How is it possible that three years ago, Governor Oshiomhole saw
President Jonathan as a well behaved statesman who rose above
partisanship to put the nation first and then make a 180 degree
turn to attack the same person and suggest that he be stoned by
the public?
Anyone who knows Former President Goodluck Jonathan knows
that the first description of him by Governor Oshiomhole is correct.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan is a man who does not lust
for power and refused to reach out to grasp power even when it
was within his reach in 2010 during the saga occasioned by the
tragic illness of his boss, President Umaru Musa Yar'adua.
Jonathan demonstrated loyalty, patience and complete submission
to the will of God and God elevated him.
When Dr. Jonathan lost the March 2015 Presidential election, he
did not wait for the Independent National Electoral Commission to
finish declaring results before calling then candidate Muhamnadu
Buhari to concede.
As a result, for the first time in her history, Nigeria does not have
any judicial challenge against the winner of a Presidential
election.
President Jonathan is a man of honour who does not deserve the
treatment being meted out to him by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.
The Comrade Governor should come to an awareness that his
party, the All Progressive Congress, is now in power. They are no
more in opposition.
The Jonathan administration remains the only administration in
Nigeria's history that promoted freedom of Speech by signing the
Freedom of Information Bill into law so Nigerians could have
access to any information they so desire.
Versions of the Freedom of Information Law are also in force in
Western nations including the US.
Only on August 21st, 2015, an investigation by Leadership
Newspapers (whose publisher is an APC chieftain and former
Presidential Aspirant on the platform of the party) revealed that no
US official ever told Governor Adams Oshiomhole or any other
person that one minister stole $6 Billion under President
Jonathan's watch and challenged the Comrade Governor to name
the US official that said so and the minister involved.
Nigerians may read that investigative report here http://
leadership.ng/news/world/455409/us-frowns-at-oshiomhole-
over-comments-on-6bn-theft
Governor Oshiomhole may want to take advantage of the FOI law
by ensuring that his aides use it to verify any allegation he may
have before he going public with it.
For example, he could have accessed freely available information
from the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, as to the total cost of
the 2nd Niger Bridge and he would have established that the entire
cost of the bridge was ₦108 billion. How is it then possible to pay
a consultancy fee of ₦140 billion for a project of ₦108 billion as the
comrade Governor alleged?
When the comrade Governor said that the Agricultural
Transformation of the Jonathan administration was a hoax, did he
know that the International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI,
revealed in their annual Global Hunger Index that hunger in Nigeria
reduced while Jonathan was President?
This fact was carried by no less a medium than Premium Times
and most Nigerians would know that Premium Times would not
publish anything good about the Jonathan administration if it was
not true.
That report could be read here http://www.premiumtimesng.com/
news/146634-hunger-level-falls-nigeria-remains-alarming-
africa-global-report.html .
Governor Oshiomhole should note that four years is not such a
long time. Every time spent in distracting President Buhari from
the task of governance by attacking ex-President Jonathan is
borrowed from time that should have been spent in helping the
new administration succeed.
You do not try to please a man who may be kind to you by
demonizing a man who has been kind to you. When you do that,
you are sending two messages.
First, you are telling the man who has already been kind to you
that he was foolish for being kind to you. Secondly you are
communicating to the man who may be kind to you that he will be
foolish if he goes on to extend kindness to you.
I pray that my Christian advise does not meet with the bombastic
response that previous attempts at engaging the Comrade
Governor have received. I mean no harm as I only want to draw
the attention of Governor Oshiomhole to the fact that no condition
is permanent on earth.
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