Tag: President Goodluck Jonathan

Why I Backed Buhari Despite Juicy Offers from Jonathan – Amaechi
Elections, News, Nigeria

Why I Backed Buhari Despite Juicy Offers from Jonathan – Amaechi

Mr Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation has said that his insistence to support President Muhammadu Buhari despite several offers made by former President Goodluck Jonathan for him to stay in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was because he was detribalised. The minister who was the governor of Rivers State at the time, said he his decision to support President Buhari, who was then the flag bearer of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and later won the presidential poll in 2015 rather than Jonathan noted that he did so because he was not tribalistic. Amaechi disclosed this in Port Harcourt on Saturday while receiving some PDP politicians who cross carpeted to the APC in the state. Notable among the defectors were a former Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community Affairs,...
The Facts Speak for themselves: You do not have to Speak for them – Reno Omokri to Femi Adesina
News, Nigeria

The Facts Speak for themselves: You do not have to Speak for them – Reno Omokri to Femi Adesina

Dear Femi: The Facts Speak For Themselves. You Do Not Have to Speak For Them I watched, with considerable amusement, Femi Adesina’s interview on Channels TV on Wednesday, September 17, 2020, wherein Femi said that his boss, General Muhammadu Buhari, inherited a badly divided nation from former President Goodluck Jonathan, and has been working to unite her. Mr Adesina said: “As of 2015, when President Buhari came, Nigeria was terribly, terribly divided; divided along religious lines, divided along ethnic lines; divided along language, divided hopelessly, terribly and that is the division that the President had been working at.” Well, it is true that there are some fault lines in Nigeria, as there are in many other nations, however, it is false to say that Nigeria was badly div...