Saturday, June 29, 2013

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Fw: Patience Jonathan is illiterate

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Let me also add that being abusive in the context of Nigerian poverty and maldevelopment constitutes a form of mental escape from hapless impotence. You can all talk of democratic decency all you like from the vantage of the diaspora or a certain civilised code of behaviour. Here, people take solace in their fundamental human right of abusing cluleless leaders and illiterate first ladies. That's as far as 'democracy' goes here.

Derision and sometimes ribald jokes about the leadership is the only means by which the subaltern Nigerian speaks. Patience Jonathan and her bombastic persona are the ready target for Nigerians. You can't deprive them of that. Civility does not speak to poverty.


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Tradition?  In which country is that then?

But  "irresponsible, unconstitutional and bizarre"?  Now that is language of which I thoroughly approve.  Pity Junaid Muhammad spoiled it by adding the "illiterate" tag, as that brought it down to the level of vulgar abuse.

However, while I can't speak about what one should approve of "as an African", I do know that Nigerians take particular delight in tagging people and their actions "illiterate", no matter how many doctorate degrees they have earned or had conferred upon them ...

Ayo
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On 29 Jun 2013, at 04:12, ibk2005@gmail.com wrote:

Is it not the tradition for first Ladies to respect themselves and keep out of shady deals?

Why do you not find the grabby, corrupt and shameful behaviour of this woman offensive?

This is the very reason why nonentities have usurped every level of power in Nigeria. This obsequous and embarassing fawning to please those in power and never speak truth to power.

Are you proud of the behaviour of this woman? Is she not a complete illiterate? Can the wife of a President also be a Permanent Secretary in a state! What redeeming feature can you find in this woman? Is the EFCC files on her or her shameful utterances or sheer disregard of protocol?

Please let us try to be honest with ourselves.

Cheers.


IBK
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From: John Mbaku <jmbaku@weber.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:33:05 -0600
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Fw: Patience Jonathan is illiterate

One can make one's point without engaging in demeaning and divisive language. Perhaps, more important is the fact that it is the tradition in virtually all countries, regardless of constitutional mandates, to respect the wife of the head of state. In fact, it is in the tradition of African societies, not just to respect all women, but especially to respect married ones. While this political critic may have a point to make, it is consumed totally by the abusive and offensive language. "Illiterate actions?" What does that mean?

As an African, I find such disrespect, especially from a highly educated critic, to be extremely offensive and not productive. By the way, I am not from Rivers State.


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Make una see me see wahala o! See what my enemies sent to my box. Good morning!
 
Well-known political critic, Junaid Muhammad, has called fresh attention to recent developments in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the national level, warning that they are snowballing into a full blown governmental and security crises in Rivers State.
 
And he brought the First Lady under the hammer for her role in the chaos.
In a press statement issued today in Kano on Wednesday, Dr. Muhammad described Rivers as "coming to the limelight because of the irresponsible, unconstitutional and bizarre, illiterate actions, of the so called first lady Mrs. Patience Jonathan, who hails from the island village of Okrika in Rivers State and who sees not only Okrika but the whole of Rivers States, as her personal domain to exploit, abuse and destabilize as she sees fit because her husband Jonathan happens to be the president."
 
He noted that the Nigerian constitution makes no provision whatsoever for the post of First Lady and confers no rights, privileges and/or responsibilities on spouses of our president or heads of governments.
 
"It is therefore illegal and completely ultra vires the constitution for any citizen, president or his spouse to usurp executive powers, and go about throwing their weight, as if they were legally recognized holders of such offices according to the law," he warned. " As at the time of writing, the commissioner of police in Rivers, his command structure and other security services are at the command of Patience Jonathan, and by her and presidential orders, most security facilities due governor, the speaker and others so entitled, have been withdrawn. Mean-while professional thugs and all manner of criminals are being recruited and pressed into service to destabilize the elected government of Rivers State."
 
Stressing that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat its mistakes, Dr. Muhammad pointed out that current developments in the PDP and especially in Rivers State bear an uncanny resemblance to the old Western Region, which led to the collapse of the first republic, with very serious and bloody consequences. Then and now, the popularly elected leaders of those parts of the country were prevented from exercising political power and control, and the operations of the police, the army and the rump of security services were interfered with in a brazen political manner.
 
"The current CP Rivers, is bending over backwards to accommodate the president, his cronies and his illiterate wife, to ignore or pervert the law and the constitution and norms of decent political behavior, to harass, intimidate Governor Rotimi Amaechi, and thus destabilize, a strategic state like Rivers. Those in the PDP who imagine that this serious and fundamental crisis can be contained by some band aid or artificial cordon sanitaire, have a shocker awaiting them," he said.
 
He noted that the overriding attitude of PDP leadership, the PDP president, his cronies etc. is an open invitation to anarchy, for his party, his tottering crisis prone government and most unfortunately for Nigeria.
 
"The preponderance of the PDP in the governing processes is a clear and present danger to democracy," the statement said. "Add to that the dictatorial proclivities of the party leadership and penchant for hand picking illiterates and corrupt thugs into key and sensitive positions; you have the making of an inevitable disaster."
Dr. Muhammad stressed that the latest developments throw into doubt the very possibilities of elections in 2015, those elections being the very reason for the desperate manouvres now being undertaken.
 
"If the de-facto commander–in-chief, the de-facto defence Minister and army commander Gen. Ihejirika who is an in-law to Patience [Jonathan], and his police and S.S.S. counterparts, are behaving in openly political partisan manner as heads of Jonathan's personal militia, it goes without saying that Jega's INEC will hold no elections worth the name," he declared, calling on all Nigerians who cherish democracy to stand up and be counted.
He stressed that Rivers State and the fate of its governor must be of enormous concern to all democrats and patriots, pointing out that within Rivers State and beyond it, evil thrives when good and decent people take their eyes off the ball or pretend it is of no concern to them or is unrelated to neighborhoods.
 
"Personally I do not know and have never met Gov. Rotimi Amaechi in person, in Port Harcourt or anywhere else on earth," he declared. "I have not been to Rivers State since the expiry of my national service in the defunct OMPADEC (now NDDC) in 1996. I am however invested in Amaechi's struggles because I believe democracy is the only way to govern a free people rationally, and to exercise legitimate power over a free people. If the PDP and its incompetent president treat this country like a conquered and vanquished people, they must be cured of their delusion, soonest." 
 
Saka Azimazi
Network of NHRIs in West Africa (NNHRI-WA)
4th Floor, NHRC House
No. 19 Aguiyi Ironsi Street
Maitama, Abuja,
Nigeria



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