Presidential responsibilities A caring president who sees every part of his country, his own, would have also visited Borno in the wake of the attack on Maiduguri and the Giwa barracks in the city a couple of weeks ago. Jonathan has continued to allow petty politicking to becloud his presidential responsibilities in respect of his relationships with Borno and Yobe. It is instructive that the same president allocated merely N2 billion as fund for the reconstruction of the entire North East part of Nigeria. Yet he found $1 billion to fight oil theft in the Niger Delta. If the past is our guide, it won’t surprise if the $1 billion end up in the pockets of Niger Delta militants, allies of President Jonathan. The PDP cannot expect people of a region that the president has not shown any modicum of empathy to also vote for them and its president, Goodluck Jonathan. We must collectively remind President Jonathan that he has not acted presidential in the way that he has responded to the continuing suffering in that segment of our country. There is a long list of indecencies in the way the PDP denizens have related to the feelings of Nigerians. That is the way the party increasingly became, having become addicted to power without responsibility since 1999. But President Jonathan and his PDP sunk much lower into absurdity over the last weekend by flying into Kano to hold a rally. It was a most unfortunate display of insensitivity by a president who swore to an oath to do justice to all sections of Nigeria, without exception! Those in the ruling party as well as those who rule us just don’t appreciate the weight of the responsibility they willingly chose to carry.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:25:48 +0000
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