Conspiracies against President Jonathan

The conspiracies against President Goodluck
Jonathan are no longer hidden from the public
glare. These plots started several months ago,
even before INEC fixed the election time table.
Foremost amongst the plotters are : 1) General
Olusegun Obasanjo, (1) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (3)
The Northern Elders Forum (4) Boko Haram and
now Chukwuma Soludo, among others. These
people or group of persons have not hidden their
hatred for GEJ and the Federal Government.
They all have their parochial reasons for
participating in the plot. Obasanjo began the
execution of the plan by his infamous “Letter to the
President’ where he accused GEJ government
amongst other things, of training snipers to
assassinate over 1000 prominent Nigerians,
(unsubstantiated); massive corruption, etc.
He followed that letter with several attacks on GEJ
on every occasion. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
continued from OBJ letter by writing his own letter
accusing NNPC of having not remitted over
$49.8billion which he later scaled down to $10.8
billion and then upgraded to $20billion. Forensic
Audits by world class audit firm, Price Water
House Coopers, has shown that no such money
was ever missing or unremitted. Boko Haram has
always struck when GEJ has something to
celebrate.
Even when Jonathan was to declare for Presidency,
Boko Haram struck in a school in the North-east,
killing over 50 students. This was intended to
prevent GEJ from declaring. Of course APC latched
on to that unfortunate incident to condemn the
President for going ahead to declare for President
when students had just been killed.
Nigerians and indeed the world should note that in
all Buhari’s endeavors and political maneuverings
including all APC’s activities, Boko Haram has
never disrupted their franchises. Now Soludo has
come up with another voodoo N30trillions
missing.
On his part, the D-G, Buhari campaign
organization, Governor Rotimi Amaechi recently
accused pastors of collecting N6billion as bribe to
support Jonathan. The clandestine activities of the
Northern Elders Forum is obvious to all Nigerians.
These plots are all about stopping President
Jonathan from being re-elected.
The vitriolic pursuits of ‘Stop Jonathan at all Costs’
using the instrumentality of corruption and Boko
Haram have been casting aspersions on the
integrity and image of Nigeria. Nigeria is being
demonized before the world as a corrupt country,
with corrupt and incapable military, because of
false allegations of spurious stolen monies.
These actors do not mind if Nigeria’s image is
completely denigrated. These plotters are
completely jaundiced to the gains of the Jonathan
administration. Their goal is to delude Nigerians
and the international community into believing that
the government of Jonathan is not only
monumentally corrupt, but weak, clueless and
don’t have the nerve to tackle Boko Haram.
Unfortunately many Nigerian and foreign countries
and their press are buying into these diabolic
plots. It is either Jonathan and his men were
deliberately ignoring these shenanigans or they are
oblivious of the fact that these people were
targeting his re election bid. Part of their grand
design is to weaken the credibility of the Jonathan
administration.
PDP as a party has been slow to react coherently
to all the falsehood that APC and their
sympathizers have been churning out. PDP and its
presidential candidate have been too gentlemanly.
Olisa Metu, the publicity Secretary of PDP has not
matched the loquaciousness of Lai Mohammed, his
APC counterpart.
Lai Mohammed is a tough malevolent alarmist.
Ditto the national chairman of APC, John Oyegun.
These people raise alarm on any thing from the
ridiculous to the profane. Chairman of PDP, Alhaji
Muazu rarely grant press conference. PDP
Publicity Secretary is more like a pastor
admonishing the Elders and Deacons of his church
when addressing the Press. These PDP people
don’t spit fire like their counterpart in APC. Even
the APC governors are not different. Adams
Oshiomhole is full of showmanship. Amaechi
another noisy governor. Take his theory of APC
forming a parallel government if they lose. Buhari,
of course is of the same stock aka, ‘baboon and
the dog being soaked in blood’.
If PDP and the President want to avoid these well
aimed plots to frustrate their victory at the polls,
they should reduce the smiles on their faces and
add a little bit of frowns. They should learn not
only to talk tough, but coherently. PDP should
project the achievements of the Jonathan
administration with some steel.
This is because APC is a reactionary and alarmist
party. If the Buhari’s certificate saga had been that
of any PDP candidate, Tinubu and his APC gang
would have led mass protest to INEC headquarters
to disqualify the candidate.

Dr. Odinaka Chukwuka writes from Oleh