This Jonathan’s Video is Damaging Is there anyone who is yet to see a certain video now trending on Youtube titled: “My tenure will end in 2015; I will not contest?” It is a compilation of the lies and or truth of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. However, if you have not seen the video, go online now, type in: youtu.be/PzukrOXar58 and watch to your delight. It is an interesting but short documentary that details honesty in leadership as the core of the campaigns for the 2015 elections. The president, Dr. Jonathan, was said to have promised to serve just a time in the countdown to the 2011 elections as part of the bargaining that made it possible for him to make it through, especially that the odds did not favour him to return at the time. But as the man adjusted to the comfort of office and found out that “life is sweet”, he changed the narrative, however, not by rephrasing it but saying outright that he never made any such promise. He even challenged the Nigerian people during a media chat to present evidence of where he made such promises as if he had tidied up all ends. Lo and behold, Nigerians have now presented the evidence. This documentary speaks volume. It details from the very beginning, how the negotiations started and culminated in the understanding of a term – the Mandela option. It shows both in video and still photographs, the president saying “My tenure and that of Sambo will end in 2015.” Not only that, his media aide, Dr. Reuben Abati reinforced this in yet another briefing also contained in the video. His campaign DG, Alhaji Dalhatu Tafida, reiterated it on September 2010. Obasanjo was also shown in different clips including the National Television Authority (NTA) as contained in the video reading out from a text, saying it was a most noble pronouncement from a president at that material time in history. Then, the clincher, a meeting of the governors where the decision was sealed was also shown. Not just that, the alleged agreement signed by 20 of the PDP governors present at the meeting including Jonathan and their signature was shown. Lastly, the voice of the chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, was played where he announced the decision of the meeting anchored on a one-term agreement. On December 15, 2010, the PDP NEC also held a meeting and agreed to allow Jonathan complete former president Umaru Yar’Adua’s remaining four years as president, who would have served a second term were it not for his death on that joint ticket. The NEC gave this as a pre-condition for supporting Jonathan in 2011. Interestingly, the president was silent at those times when the people were reinforcing the statement on his behalf, including the ones said in his presence. At the time, THISDAY newspapers on Sunday did a story on the one term agreement and sought to hold the president to his words when the time arises. The problem, really, was not that there was an understanding of one term, but that the president denied ever agreeing to such an understanding and even signed the agreement. The question posed in the video is therefore trite: should Nigerians trust a man like this? In developed climes, the words of the president carry as much weight as the law. However, there the president not only reprobate his words, but denies outright, isn’t such a nation imperiled? Nigerians, the choice is yours!
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:49:41 +0000
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