The goldfish, they say, has no hiding place. As the President of Africa's most populous nation, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan aptly fits the bill given his visibility on the continental, global, political and economic fora. He has continuously been the focus of positive analyses by well-meaning and discerning critics of his Transformation Agenda and his contributions to global discourses at various conferences he has attended since he assumed office as Nigeria's democratically-elected President.
Of recent, there has been a rash of neo-negative commentaries, innuendoes, insinuations and outright abuses and condemnations of certain actions purportedly committed by those close to the President or Dr. Jonathan himself.
Of great concern, though, is the artful application of blatant lies and worst case scenarios erected by those Pull-Jonathan-Down critics. It goes without saying that the set-agenda of these people is to rubbish the President (and by inference, his ethnic stock, the Ijaw,his region,the Niger Delta ) and also set the larger mass of the Nigerian people against him, to boot.
In the last six months of this year, the President has been roped into scores of pre-fabricated cases or accusations that were, principally, directed to cast him in the mode of a ruler who is not people-friendly in his policies, programmes, and projects locations, just to spite and demonize him both nationally and internationally.
Three cases in point will suffice to illustrate the strident season of bile and insolence that was unleashed in the programmed campaign to tar-paint President Jonathan, either frontally or through peripheral attacks on those suspected to be close to him – especially Mrs. Diezani Alison – Madueke (the Minister of Petroleum Resources) and Elder GodsdayOrubebe (the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs). The duo are also of the Ijaw ethnic stock like the President.
Nigerians are withnesses to the high-wire sting operation that brought down Hon. Farouk Lawan from his lofty moral high-horse by a businessman called Mr. Femi Otedola. A lot of bile and disclosures have ensued since the incident blew open and non of the issues has involved the President or the Presidency as indicated by the media assault that tended to paint the Presidency as being the unseen hand behind the bribe scam and the covert operation that exposed Hon. Farouk Lawan.
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