USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: FW: BALARABE MUSA ON GOODLUCK JONATHAN

It's good to know that Alhaji Balarabe Musa who was once governor of Kaduna, which was and perhaps still is the most liberal state in Northern Nigeria, is still around. However, for him or anyone else to say, 80 days after the abduction that "The inability to resolve the issue of the abduction of the schoolgirls from Chibok, Borno State... is a show of gross incompetence on the part of the Federal Government" is an exaggeration since it implies that any competent government or perhaps a very competent Alhaji Balarabe Musa himself – as head of the Federal Government would have located the girls and  brought them back home, and maybe, even punished the kidnappers – or concluded a peace treaty with Boko Haram – by now.  In that case, it should be incumbent on the patriotic Alhaji to share his knowledge of how to accomplish that kind of spectacular success.

It took quite some time to apprehend Osama Bin Ladin and this was not due to a lack of competence by those who finally nailed him...

 In my view, since Boko Haram may be getting some foreign logistical help and financing, it's certainly not unpatriotic to enlist the aid of foreign competence  in areas where you lack such – such as American drones to help locate the missing girls – the drones probably think that the girls are all in one large group that can be identified from the air, when in fact  by now  some of the girls could be happily or unhappily married and in advanced stages of pregnancy, others could have been dispersed and melted into civilian populations in the Hausa and Fulani speaking parts of Cameroons, Niger,  Chad and Burkina Faso. In due course of time, one by one, some of them will be emerging, to tell their stories, the very stuff of sensational newspaper headlines such as "I was kidnapped and married to a Boko Harami"

President Goodluck Jonathan is still popular in many quarters, his popularity and some element of sycophancy go hand in hand and here is the testimony: The Good luck Jonathan Appreciation Day and for a surety, many a Goodluck Jonathan sycophant will be found in their ranks, payback time, one good turn deserves another, hoping to lick a goodly reward...

There many dire predictions about President Goodluck Jonathan's prospects for re-election are not infallible. It is the very fear of his possible success that is mostly motivating many of these forecasts - after all if the enemy party is going to drive into a ditch, then why worry? At this stage, Nigeria is lucky not to have a blood-thirsty president who would be seriously after Boko Haram - all he would have to do would be to take his gloves off – not to kill, but to give the order to capture as many Boko Haram warriors as possible and to put them where they belong: prison - the other option - just like the option being discussed in certain quarters in Israel just now would be to systematically liquidate the leaders of the terrorist organisation. For that too a certain competence is needed.

 Re – "Days ago, after the latest bomb blast in Abuja, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said the Boko Haram saga was worse than the Nigerian civil war that killed millions of our own brethren. For once, I felt our President has now seen the light and all that is left is for him to be truly born again" (Dele Momodu)

The mystery of what President Jonathan could have meant has been finally demystified by Wole Soyinka – that the whole nation – particularly up there in the North  - well in the professor's words: "We have never been confronted with butchery on this scale, even during the civil war,"  – and then he adds ironically that in spite of the looming North- South split, it's this carnage that will probably help glue  the country together  with a more passionate sense of  "We"  all belonging to Nigeria.

About relative carnage, one is tempted to use Iraq as a yardstick – there are those who miss what they now refer to as the good old days of strongman Saddam Hussein – the butcher of Baghdad - they say that his reign  was like a picnic compared to what has been happening to Iraq since George Bush invaded that country, ostensibly on a mission to find and destroy Saddam's alleged "weapons of mass destruction" Unlike Nigeria,  from the road to perdition, Iraq it seems is now on the road to partition.

Let us pray.

Sincerely,

Cornelius (Adebayo)

We  Sweden

 

 

On Friday, 4 July 2014 03:51:56 UTC+2, Assensoh, Akwasi B. wrote:

 

 

Jonathan's incompetence affecting Nigeria –Balarabe Musa

JULY 4, 2014 BY ALLWELL OKPI 2 COMMENTS

   

 

 

 

 

Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, on Thursday, took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, alleging that his incompetence has affected every part of Nigeria.

Musa, who said this during an interview with The PUNCH, added that the fact that over 200 schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram sect from Chibok, Borno State, had not been rescued after 80 days showed gross incompetence on the part of the Federal Government.

He described the involvement of foreign security agents in the bid to rescue the schoolgirls and halt Boko Haram insurgency as unpatriotic, saying the Federal Government had the capacity to handle the situation.

Musa said, "Jonathan's incompetence has affected every part of Nigeria. The inability to resolve the issue of the abduction of the schoolgirls from Chibok, Borno State and the continued abduction of women and children is a show of gross incompetence on the part of the Federal Government.

"Apart from that, President Goodluck Jonathan and his government went ahead to unpatriotically invite foreigners to solve a problem that the Federal Government has the capacity to solve. And up till today, the foreigners have not been able to identify where the abducted children are. Nothing concrete is coming both from the Federal Government and those invited to help."

When asked if it was proper for Jonathan to seek re-election given the current state of the nation, Musa said the Peoples Democratic Party would suffer defeat in the 2015 presidential election if it nominated the President as its candidate.

He said, "Considering the negative state of the nation, that has affected every part of Nigeria, particularly the level of poverty and insecurity. Jonathan should not contest for re-election in 2015. His party will not even nominate him. But if it does, it will face the consequences, because Jonathan will lose the election woefully.

"He will not get reasonable votes even in the South-South where he comes from because the South-South is also suffering from the negative state of the nation. South-South people are also suffering from the current level of unemployment, hunger and insecurity. Jonathan's incompetence has affected every part of Nigeria."

Musa also ruled out the possibility of the All Progressives Congress being behind the Boko Haram insurgency, saying no political party has the capacity to sponsor such sustained terrorist attacks.

He said the insurgency was aimed at destabilising Nigeria and noted that only the Federal Government, some rich criminals, and foreign imperialists, who are seeking the disintegration of Nigeria, have the capacity to sponsor it.

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