President Goodluck Jonathan came under criticism from his Facebook friends on Tuesday after he posted his Christmas message on the social networking site.
The President in the message said he “personally” instructed government officials to make conditions favourable for Nigerians to celebrate the Yuletide.
The airports, he said, for instance, had been given a “facelift”, adding that the terminals were rehabilitated and the runways upgraded ahead of the festive season.
He wrote, “I want to seize this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones a merry Christmas and a happy New Year in advance. I feel the pains of Nigerians and that is why this Yuletide I have personally instructed that our roads be worked on to enable you and your loved ones to travel safely for the holidays.
“Not done, we ensured that for the first time in decades, the cross country services (Lagos to Kano with stops in cities along the route) of the Nigerian Railway Corporation were revived just prior to the holidays to provide Nigerian masses with an inexpensive alternative to road and air transportation.
“This administration also took steps to increase power generation by remaining true to the Timelines of the Roadmap to Power Sector Reform, which has seen history made on Friday, December 21, when Nigeria’s power generation hit an all-time high of just over 4,500 MW.”
But no sooner had Jonathan posted the message on his wall than it was greeted with a barrage of criticisms from his friends.
While a few praised and advised the President on how to tackle the problems bedevilling the country, many others faulted his submissions.
One of his friends, Kaycee Aloy-Obi wrote, “Mr. President hold your greetings. You and your family are having great celebration. A litre of petrol is sold at N110-N120, against N97 which is the official price. There is unprecedented traffic jam on Ore-Benin road due to bad roads.
“People cannot go around to visit love ones because of insecurity. Bury your head in shame with your 4,500 MW when South Africa is generating 50,000 MW. It is paradoxical that many Nigerians are having dry Christmas in midst of plenty.”
Yusuf Suleiman, asked the president to match his words with actions, adding that his “advisers are not telling you the true picture of what is happening.”
He said, “In Nigeria today, under your watch, the country recorded the highest looting of our treasury, and you didn’t do anything. We also have seen how citizens were massacred, in fact, the highest since civil war ended (and) your government is not doing enough to stop that.”
Also, Bethel Vincent, wrote, “Haba! Mr. President, you know say lie no good at all. Why post something we have not witnessed, yet you refer to us as friends and fellow Nigerians. As I am talking to you, my flat is running on generator; Benin-Auchi road is filled with potholes and you are talking about airport, how (many) Nigerians can afford air transport?”
A friend, Ajoba David, wrote, “Sir, congratulations! Merry Christmas and a happy new year. What do we expect as a New Year gift come Tuesday, January 1st? Well, I hope it is not going to be another fuel subsidy razzmatazz like we experienced last year.
“Nevertheless, Nigerians have yet to recuperate from the fever that was injected into their veins last January as a result of the purportedly and verbally(sic) removal of the fuel subsidy which Nigerians have yet to see any sign of seriousness in bringing (those) culpable to book.”
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What a dumb dumb! The facebook you are using was invented by a human being living in an environment where human development is encouraged and promoted by a people-oriented government. What have you put in place to encourage your own citizens to develop ideas and innovative technologies? Mumu president. Of course, Abati punches the keypad for you. His unpopular ideas are what we read.
ReplyDeleteI say congratulations and merry Christmas to Mr. President but please remember that to whom much is given, much is expected. I remember the trust Nigerians reposed in you to make you president immediately after the death of Ya'adua, I also remember how we voted massively for you so that you can have your own tenure to right the wrongs of the past. What we are getting today are the shocks of our lives, no security, no power, no road, no employment, no shelter, no fuel and corruption is at its peak. Nigerians deserves better treatment from a president they have labour to bring to power.
ReplyDeleteHai! Hai!! Hai!!! You know what?, your doctorate is a big questionable??, even your name is also questionable??? When Nigerians thought they have seen a messiah I have no shoe that will wipe away their sorrows but rather he sneer the lives of Nigerians and then inflect them with more pains upon pains. See how the internationals have also rated your transformation, Dame is widening the irreversible hole you have dug for yourself and your entire aides and executives are ready to push you in. Though a completely lost dog does no longer hear the hunter’s whistle blow. No wonder even the remained Nigerian lighting system of education, religion and council of elders have been turned to be rearing out criminals of all kinds. All mushrooming out with all sorts of certificate of varying miscreants minds, societal nuisance and menace even many also flew out at our financial detriment to learn more ideas that originally was meant for good but because of that blood they only criminalize such ideas. What is more humiliating than this? Oh yes Achebe said things fall apart, Idris said jaga jaga, A famous novelist said the gods are not to be blamed and Soyinka said with such poverty trend many will start eating from the dustbin. And the transformer man said they are doing well meticulously about it to avoid mistakes, please who can define this man better yet he said he has no business with poverty but yet he started with no shoe. He was in church defending himself and explaining how there was a gun shot at a cable, oh may be that was what rocket fire the pump price from 65 that Nigerians are only managing to survive with to an endless heartless of hopeless price, and many will return home from church without what to eat. You are just looking for baseless excuses that cannot hold. This man really needs transformation and deliverance of himself first as well designed at, the reforming the unreformable. If you continue like this you are indeed drowning in a consuming pool of fire of no return as dug by you.
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