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If OBJ had a conscience, now would be the time for him to bury his face in
shame. This is due to his role and schemes in navigating President
Jonathan to the corridor of power. Jonathan, who appears to be the good
luck that has eluded Nigeria for a long time, began to show his true color
of economic naivety and administrative incompetence.
Providence brought him to power in a circumstance that yielded his former
boss – Late Yar’Adua to supreme call. Against all odds, he was given the
benefit of doubt and voted into the office of the president of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. In the course, he promised to transform Nigeria and
move it to its rightful place in history. He promised to alleviate the suffering
of the masses, to improve electricity and other infrastructures that can
open a new chapter for Nigeria’s economic development, and to promote
institutions that will sustain viable social and political order as opposed to
socio-political and economic enslavement.
Unfortunately, President Jonathan has willingly abandoned those
promises which he made under oath. He has willfully betrayed the trust of
all Nigerians as done by all his predecessors. By taking this path,
President Jonathan has murdered sleep; and insomnia will not depart from
him any time soon. His first five months in the presidency is not only a
show of shame, it represents a heartless misadventure of a trusted fool
and an exposition of a leader with a deficit sense of history. His
administration is a channel of hell.
John Locke, in his Theory of Social Contract, argued that “ trust" is
imperative for starting and maintaining political society and government”,
and the lack of it is instrumental to dissolving the latter. Trust, while it
may be given, may also be revoked by the multitude, should government
fall short of its duty. He concluded, whenever that end is manifestly
neglected, or opposed, “the trust must necessarily be forfeited”. Because
government is instituted for the purpose of the common good, and its
authority derived from the people’s reliance upon it to meet that end, it can
no longer be legitimate or necessary if it betrays the public trust “in not
preserving the form of government agreed on, and in not intending the end
of government itself”.
This breach of trust gives the people the right to resist their governors in
defense of their natural right, the line dividing a standing government and a
dissolved one is often drawn by the notion of trust that is derived from the
society. Thus the concept of trust in Locke’s context signifies the most
potent evidence that sovereignty resides in the people. The legislative,
though it may be the supreme power whilst government subsists, is
ultimately “only a fiduciary power”. By the exercise of trust, it is the
society who decides whether or not the social contract between people
and government remains valid.
As at now, it is evident that the administration of President Jonathan Good
Luck has betrayed the trust vested in it by the people of Nigeria. The
people therefore have the right to review its credibility and determine
whether to withdraw their mandate or continue to tolerate his political and
economic short sightedness. Nigerians have been severally and severely
beaten by all the regimes – past and present that have ruled the nation;
and we have come to the point where repudiation of government’s
insensitivity and enslavement is no longer a matter of consideration but a
civil obligation.
We have had enough of the people that are entrusted with good
governance responsibilities turning their back on us and stabbing us. We
are tired of the arbitrariness of the selected few; we are fed-up of the
people whom we loved and respected mocking us to our face. We can no
longer tolerate or accommodate the selfishness of the people that are
entrusted with our rights to provide credible leadership, destroying the
hope of the present generation and bleaking the future of the unborn
generation.
We will no longer maintain docility, or tolerate painful silence pretending
that all is well when in fact the glory of the nation is being eroded and the
status of its statehood is being attacked. Nigerians are enjoined to take
their destiny in their hand. This government can no longer be trusted. We
need to confront its inadequacies consistently via systematic organization
of virile, strategic and methodic mass protests, strikes and
demonstrations to sabotage their inhuman agenda. After all, a government
that thrives in stealing, looting, killing, and that is insensitive to the welfare
of the governed, neither deserves the support nor cooperation of the latter.
The people should fight it to extinction.
Let me be clear, this confrontation is a conscious, concerted struggle
aimed at liberating ourselves and our nation from the shackles and
debacles of the cabals and neo-colonial enslavement. Therefore, it must
be planned well. There must be proper organization. It must not be
dominated or misrepresented by hoodlums or political thugs. The theme of
the struggle must be unambiguously defined and maintained. It must
enjoy massive support from the people. There should be a parallel or
shadow government made up of trusted and tested pro-masses comrades
and empathetic individuals as opposed to opportunity seeking wolves in
comrade’s skin/camp. It must be non-violent, and non- disruptive of public
properties and infrastructures; because demonstration that focuses on
killing or destroying public infrastructures is a contradiction of its goal.
Consequently it is the masses who are further impoverished.
This government has fooled some people some of the time, but its
schemes to fool all of us continually must be consciously repudiated.
Nigerians have been deceived and kicked around long enough. We have
been beaten and battered consistently. But from our collective travails, we
have learned significant lessons, and we have come to the conclusion
that, Nigeria should wrestle from the cronies of cabals and restore the
universal principles of freedom, equality and social justice for all.
President Jonathan Good Luck heads an inconsistent administration that
is wrapped in contradictions. He promised to fight corruption, but wined
and dined with the sacred cows. He vowed to be prudent but all we see is
defalcation. He took the oath of office to defend the nation and protect its
citizens from internal and external aggression; but he accommodates and
minimizes the perfidy of the Boko Haram and its like. He promise one
thing in the day time and does differently at day break. This is an
ethically unstable government that can no longer be trusted.
President Jonathan, acting in consonance to the council of his advisers,
decided to remove the oil subsidy which has been calculated to be around
N1.3 trillion under the 2012 budget. This implies that the price of gasoline
will increase from the current N65/liter to about N145/liter. The simple
implication of this is that prices of all commodities will increase. The
common man will bear the burden and life will continue to be unbearable.
The society will be further stratified along “the haves” and “the have nots”,
which make it vulnerable to disintegration to the state of nature.
The government did not consider increasing the minimum wage of the
working citizens. Records confirmed that among the oil producing
countries of the world, Nigeria has the lowest per-capital income yet it has
the most expensive oil cost per liter as indicated in this information:
(source: Occupy Nigeria Organization).
Ironically, the government that says the economy will collapse if it
subsidizes fuel at N1.3 trillion, proposed about 3 billion Naira to refurbish
part of the Presidential Villa in its 2012 budget:
Isn't it shameful on our so called president and his top officials, especially
the Finance Minister who entered office bragging about putting an end to
government wasteful spending?
Isn’t it required that President Jonathan explain to the nation why annual
petroleum subsidies increased from N800 billion (as done during the OBJ
regime) to N1.3 Trillion?
Isn’t it shameful that President Jonathan sees nothing wrong in the
colossal salaries and benefits of the members of the House of
Representatives and the Senate whose annual income is a little less than
the cost which the government threatened to withdraw from the petroleum
subsidy?
Isn’t it ridiculous that President Jonathan has increased the nation’s debt
stock by about $20bn, ran down excess crude from $6bn to zero, and
depleted Foreign Exchange reserves from $45bn to $ 30bn?
Isn’t it ludicrous that under GEJ, the Dollar exchange rate moved from
>N140 to N160 today. Debt stock has doubled to higher than 2005 levels
and interest rates to over 20%!
Isn’t it a mockery of common sense, that while the pills of austerity are
being forced through the throat of the masses, President Jonathan’s
administration has spent nearly 10 trillion Naira on government officials,
trips abroad, and on subsidies to politicians?
It is obviously ridiculous and shamefully ludicrous that Nigerians have
been fooled by this administration; therefore, the people need to consider
whether to withdraw its trust from President Jonathan and show him a way
out of the Aso Rock. Nigerians deserve the service of a visionary leader
and not a mischievous game plan of a gambler.
Tunde Ali is the President of Citizens for Good Government &
Accountability – (CIGGAC).
shame. This is due to his role and schemes in navigating President
Jonathan to the corridor of power. Jonathan, who appears to be the good
luck that has eluded Nigeria for a long time, began to show his true color
of economic naivety and administrative incompetence.
Providence brought him to power in a circumstance that yielded his former
boss – Late Yar’Adua to supreme call. Against all odds, he was given the
benefit of doubt and voted into the office of the president of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. In the course, he promised to transform Nigeria and
move it to its rightful place in history. He promised to alleviate the suffering
of the masses, to improve electricity and other infrastructures that can
open a new chapter for Nigeria’s economic development, and to promote
institutions that will sustain viable social and political order as opposed to
socio-political and economic enslavement.
Unfortunately, President Jonathan has willingly abandoned those
promises which he made under oath. He has willfully betrayed the trust of
all Nigerians as done by all his predecessors. By taking this path,
President Jonathan has murdered sleep; and insomnia will not depart from
him any time soon. His first five months in the presidency is not only a
show of shame, it represents a heartless misadventure of a trusted fool
and an exposition of a leader with a deficit sense of history. His
administration is a channel of hell.
John Locke, in his Theory of Social Contract, argued that “ trust" is
imperative for starting and maintaining political society and government”,
and the lack of it is instrumental to dissolving the latter. Trust, while it
may be given, may also be revoked by the multitude, should government
fall short of its duty. He concluded, whenever that end is manifestly
neglected, or opposed, “the trust must necessarily be forfeited”. Because
government is instituted for the purpose of the common good, and its
authority derived from the people’s reliance upon it to meet that end, it can
no longer be legitimate or necessary if it betrays the public trust “in not
preserving the form of government agreed on, and in not intending the end
of government itself”.
This breach of trust gives the people the right to resist their governors in
defense of their natural right, the line dividing a standing government and a
dissolved one is often drawn by the notion of trust that is derived from the
society. Thus the concept of trust in Locke’s context signifies the most
potent evidence that sovereignty resides in the people. The legislative,
though it may be the supreme power whilst government subsists, is
ultimately “only a fiduciary power”. By the exercise of trust, it is the
society who decides whether or not the social contract between people
and government remains valid.
As at now, it is evident that the administration of President Jonathan Good
Luck has betrayed the trust vested in it by the people of Nigeria. The
people therefore have the right to review its credibility and determine
whether to withdraw their mandate or continue to tolerate his political and
economic short sightedness. Nigerians have been severally and severely
beaten by all the regimes – past and present that have ruled the nation;
and we have come to the point where repudiation of government’s
insensitivity and enslavement is no longer a matter of consideration but a
civil obligation.
We have had enough of the people that are entrusted with good
governance responsibilities turning their back on us and stabbing us. We
are tired of the arbitrariness of the selected few; we are fed-up of the
people whom we loved and respected mocking us to our face. We can no
longer tolerate or accommodate the selfishness of the people that are
entrusted with our rights to provide credible leadership, destroying the
hope of the present generation and bleaking the future of the unborn
generation.
We will no longer maintain docility, or tolerate painful silence pretending
that all is well when in fact the glory of the nation is being eroded and the
status of its statehood is being attacked. Nigerians are enjoined to take
their destiny in their hand. This government can no longer be trusted. We
need to confront its inadequacies consistently via systematic organization
of virile, strategic and methodic mass protests, strikes and
demonstrations to sabotage their inhuman agenda. After all, a government
that thrives in stealing, looting, killing, and that is insensitive to the welfare
of the governed, neither deserves the support nor cooperation of the latter.
The people should fight it to extinction.
Let me be clear, this confrontation is a conscious, concerted struggle
aimed at liberating ourselves and our nation from the shackles and
debacles of the cabals and neo-colonial enslavement. Therefore, it must
be planned well. There must be proper organization. It must not be
dominated or misrepresented by hoodlums or political thugs. The theme of
the struggle must be unambiguously defined and maintained. It must
enjoy massive support from the people. There should be a parallel or
shadow government made up of trusted and tested pro-masses comrades
and empathetic individuals as opposed to opportunity seeking wolves in
comrade’s skin/camp. It must be non-violent, and non- disruptive of public
properties and infrastructures; because demonstration that focuses on
killing or destroying public infrastructures is a contradiction of its goal.
Consequently it is the masses who are further impoverished.
This government has fooled some people some of the time, but its
schemes to fool all of us continually must be consciously repudiated.
Nigerians have been deceived and kicked around long enough. We have
been beaten and battered consistently. But from our collective travails, we
have learned significant lessons, and we have come to the conclusion
that, Nigeria should wrestle from the cronies of cabals and restore the
universal principles of freedom, equality and social justice for all.
President Jonathan Good Luck heads an inconsistent administration that
is wrapped in contradictions. He promised to fight corruption, but wined
and dined with the sacred cows. He vowed to be prudent but all we see is
defalcation. He took the oath of office to defend the nation and protect its
citizens from internal and external aggression; but he accommodates and
minimizes the perfidy of the Boko Haram and its like. He promise one
thing in the day time and does differently at day break. This is an
ethically unstable government that can no longer be trusted.
President Jonathan, acting in consonance to the council of his advisers,
decided to remove the oil subsidy which has been calculated to be around
N1.3 trillion under the 2012 budget. This implies that the price of gasoline
will increase from the current N65/liter to about N145/liter. The simple
implication of this is that prices of all commodities will increase. The
common man will bear the burden and life will continue to be unbearable.
The society will be further stratified along “the haves” and “the have nots”,
which make it vulnerable to disintegration to the state of nature.
The government did not consider increasing the minimum wage of the
working citizens. Records confirmed that among the oil producing
countries of the world, Nigeria has the lowest per-capital income yet it has
the most expensive oil cost per liter as indicated in this information:
(source: Occupy Nigeria Organization).
Ironically, the government that says the economy will collapse if it
subsidizes fuel at N1.3 trillion, proposed about 3 billion Naira to refurbish
part of the Presidential Villa in its 2012 budget:
Isn't it shameful on our so called president and his top officials, especially
the Finance Minister who entered office bragging about putting an end to
government wasteful spending?
Isn’t it required that President Jonathan explain to the nation why annual
petroleum subsidies increased from N800 billion (as done during the OBJ
regime) to N1.3 Trillion?
Isn’t it shameful that President Jonathan sees nothing wrong in the
colossal salaries and benefits of the members of the House of
Representatives and the Senate whose annual income is a little less than
the cost which the government threatened to withdraw from the petroleum
subsidy?
Isn’t it ridiculous that President Jonathan has increased the nation’s debt
stock by about $20bn, ran down excess crude from $6bn to zero, and
depleted Foreign Exchange reserves from $45bn to $ 30bn?
Isn’t it ludicrous that under GEJ, the Dollar exchange rate moved from
>N140 to N160 today. Debt stock has doubled to higher than 2005 levels
and interest rates to over 20%!
Isn’t it a mockery of common sense, that while the pills of austerity are
being forced through the throat of the masses, President Jonathan’s
administration has spent nearly 10 trillion Naira on government officials,
trips abroad, and on subsidies to politicians?
It is obviously ridiculous and shamefully ludicrous that Nigerians have
been fooled by this administration; therefore, the people need to consider
whether to withdraw its trust from President Jonathan and show him a way
out of the Aso Rock. Nigerians deserve the service of a visionary leader
and not a mischievous game plan of a gambler.
Tunde Ali is the President of Citizens for Good Government &
Accountability – (CIGGAC).
The misadventure of a “Good Luck” called
Jonathan
Jonathan
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