From: 'Okenwa R. Nwosu, M.D.' okenwanwosu@yahoo.com [NaijaPolitics] <NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 29 March 2016 at 00:41
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] JONATHANIAN LEADERSHIP LEGACY; NOT BAD FOR NIGERIA - Odia Ofeimun
The good feature about democracy is that it tends to have a life of its own and thus usually moves at its own pace despite the prodding, exhortations or machinations of those who operate it. Odia Ofeimun touched the conscience and sensibilities of his audience when he took out the time to call out on those who opted to deploy sheer raw propaganda, misinformation and lies in order to smother and besmirch the significant accomplishments of the GEJ administration because the president was earmarked for "personal punishment" for stepping outside the umbilical alignment with the West in seeking financial and technical help for Nigeria during his tenure and for disobeying the wishes of the Otta Farmer and his ilk.
Clever and catchy terms like "clueless", corrupt, inept etc were deployed by hired "experts" to assail the object of great loathing by an unholy alliance comprising the financiers of the West and the "militicians" that had imposed the 1999 Constitution on Nigeria's 4th Republic. President GEJ was perceived to have committed the unpardonable sins of straying far to the Orient to seek help in revitalizing the moribund Nigeria Railways and for convoking a National Conference to take a close-up at the many inadequacies of the subsisting 1999 Constitution imposed by erstwhile military strongmen. So, the powerful duo had a shared interest to personally punish GEJ for daring to deviate from the established "norms" during his tenure in office........
Deliberate Propaganda Was Used to Smother GEJ's Accomplishments - Odia Ofeimun
Jonathanian Leadership Legacy; Not Bad for Nigeria – Odia Ofeimun
President Jonathan's greatest contribution to Nigeria's political economy is the heroic effort which his administration made, in spite all the background noise engendered by the opposition, to frontally address the "multiple moralities", which have immensely impeded nation building, through convocation of the 2014 National Conference. This singular brave act must have earned him even greater personal recriminations than he got because of his resistance to unconditional acceptance of dictates by EU financial experts to Nigeria on bilateral trade. President GEJ proceeded to convene a National Conference against the stiff opposition to such an idea mounted by the ruling alliance that had successfully imposed the 1999 Constitution on the Nigerian polity since outset of the 4th Republic. GEJ's political fate may have been sealed in late 2014 when the offended foreign masters of the West operationally teamed up with the clique of domestic imposers of the 1999 Constitution who funded and configured the nucleus of the entity that metamorphosed into the APC. …………….…read more
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