It was a season of lamentation for many Facebook friends of President
Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday, as they flocked to his Facebook page to
register their displeasure with the state of the nation.
While
observing that there was little to celebrate about the 53rd Independence
Day, they urged him to live up to his responsibility and deliver on the
yearnings of the citizenry.
The Nigerians who were commenting on the President’s Independence Day
message, which he posted on his Facebook page, said they were tired of
his continued rethorics of a better Nigeria.
In the comments they
dropped on his Facebook page, they particularly asked Jonathan not to
think about the next election but the next generation, by providing
solutions to the problems in education sector and the rate of
unemployment as well as the worsening state of insecurity in the
country.
One of the President’s friends, Igweoha Chima, laments that as
Nigeria clocks 53, “his face is not wearing a happy look;” adding that
he is “so much interested in knowing the achievements of Nigerian
leaders for the past 53 years.”
University students used the
occasion to demand an end to the three-month old strike embarked upon by
members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
A particular friend of the President, Moses Ohiomokhare, while urging
him end the lingering crisis, says as a former university teacher, he
expects Jonathan to know where the “shoe pinches.”
Ohiomokhare says,
“We have noted the points made in your speech and look forward to their
implementation. We wish you well. But Mr. President, we are still
troubled that ASUU strike is still unresolved.
“We all do not need to remind you that you were a lecturer and know
where the shoe pinches. We request that you move the matter to your desk
and see it resolved. Your subordinates find it difficult to handle it.
The buck stops on your desk, sir.”
A student, Victor Chinomso,
laments, “Goodluck Jonathan, all what you just said here (Facebook)
translates to nothing to me. Who are you deceiving when the Nigerian
students, the future leaders, are on strike? Mr. President, you promised
us good education and fresh air. Mr. President, what we are
experiencing is bad air.
“Mr. President, I remember how I stood in the sun and went through
stress just to cast my vote for you during the 2011 presidential
election and all you could do is to pay us back with strike. But Mr.
President, there is nothing to celebrate. I am only thanking God for the
gift of life.”
Another Facebook friend, Yahaya Musa, observes that the state of
insecurity bothers him a lot. He argues that the state of insecurity had
never deteriorated in the country like it has in recent times.
He,
therefore, asks the President to take “drastic actions” beyond the
ritual of delivering speeches and make the nation safe for everyone.
Musa notes, “Well done, Mr. President. However, you need to take
drastic actions beyond the speech. Truly, sir, we are suffering for
nothing in this country; it’s only by faith that we get back to our
houses when we come out. There is no guarantee for the next hour or day.
“Security situation has never deteriorated like now: innocent people
being killed without any cause. Rural populace cannot boast of the next
meal and we are living in a country that is ranked eighth in terms of
fuel exportation. Mr. President Sir, re-strategise your plans and
policies. Sir, if you can tackle these problems, even within the
shortest time possible, 2015 will decide for itself.”
Artisans and
businessmen befriending Jonathan on the social network lament that the
menace of epileptic power supply is frustrating and call for a speedy
implementation of the power sector reform.
One Adegeye Ade says the
President has failed the nation as he has yet to fulfill his promises on
set targets of electricity generating capacity.
“If his (Jonathan’s) business has packed up because of epileptic
supply of electricity, may be he would have known that he has not only
failed Nigerians, he has equally failed God,” Ade says.
Meanwhile, a
cross section of the President’s followers say they are happy with him
for listening to their clamour for the convocation of a Sovereign
National Conference, with the setting-up of an “advisory committee whose
mandate is to establish the modalities for a national dialogue or
conference.”
“Congratulations, Mr. President, for taking the first step in the
convocation of a sovereign national conference. We believe it will help
us live better as a nation. God bless you and God bless Nigeria,” one
Emmanuel Sampson-Jaja observes.
Source: Stella Dimoko
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