PRESIDENT JONATHAN WILL BE THE BEST LOVED PRESIDENT EVER IN NIGERIA

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.
The orchestrated hue and cry about a non-satisfactory implementation of the Federal Budget by President Jonathan has been dubbed by keen watchers of Nigeria politics as a "retaliatory measure" by a "slighted" House of Representatives that was still smarting from the Faroukgate affair. It is believed that a section of the House felt that the whole episode was directed at the topmost leadership using the bribe scam as a decoy.
The promoters of the anti-Jonathan lobby have even gone to the length of accusing the President of approving and releasing scarce government funds to purchase 200 "new and exotic" cars for the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) summit in Abuja from Thursday, July 26, 2012. It has been revealed that the NGO is being supported by a private company – Coscharis Motors Limited, which supplied some cars to the organizers at no cost to it or the Federal Government of Nigeria. No fund was requested for, released or utilized for the purchase of 200 cars!
The current stage in the smear campaign unleashed by the anti-Jonathan lobby involves:
• The fictitious lies / claims by an online newspaper of contribution of over $1bn to President Jonathan's campaign funds in 2011 through Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and Elder Orubebe.
• The fictitious and complete lie that Walter Wagbatsoma and Ontario Oil and Gas bought a private jet which he is holding in trust for the sitting Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
• The outright lie that the sum of $300m went into the campaign effort through Mrs. Alison – Madueke and the lie that Ms Adaoha Ngo-Ngadi bought a N600m mansion for Elder Orubebe in Abuja and further lied that he is an "invisible Director" of Ontario Oil and Gas – a firm headed by Ms Adaoha It is trite knowledge that the orchestrated media onslaught is designed to rope in Mr. President in a concocted and contrived web of lies, innuendoes and insinuations woven around fictitious accusations of graft and criminal connivance unbecoming of his exalted office. The authors and promoters of the "Rubbish– The-President-By-All-Means" media campaigns are employing all manners and shades of tricks to situate Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as "guilty as charged" before their selfish court of warped opinion skewed to achieve very narrow and parochial motives.
The catalogue of the campaigns of calumny and subtle blackmail currently directed at the President has, in no small measure, enabled Nigerians to critically assess and evaluate the moral fiber and due diligence of a man who is being assailed by all manners of missiles and still not distracted or fazed.
As leaders evolve, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will emerge from the raging cauldron of hate campaigns to become that quintessential manager of men, ideas and materials and a statesman whose moral make-up will ultimately become the benchmark for good governance best practices in Nigeria and beyond. This is especially so in the ongoing war against corrupt and corruptive activities in Nigeria, which he initiated and is prosecuting diligently.

PRESIDENT JONATHAN WILL BE THE BEST LOVED PRESIDENT EVER IN NIGERIA