Jonathan Not Clueless, Incompetent – Okupe

-


The Presidency says President Goodluck Jonathan has done well since he assumed office. It therefore said the accusation of incompetence levelled against him was untrue and a mere political propaganda.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe stated this in a statement on Monday.
Okupe, who said the claims by the opposition that the President was incompetent were untrue and lacked facts, adding that part of the opposition’s strategy to present the government as not being effective, was to advance their selfish cause.
The president’s aide said the background of Jonathan indicated that he was neither a clueless nor an incompetence leader.
Okupe said, “The background of President Jonathan does not fall into the mould of incompetence or cluelessness that the opposition tries too hard to sell to the Nigerian populace.
“By definition, Reference Dictionary says, ‘Incompetence is lacking qualification or ability’.
“Webster Dictionary defines it as ‘lacking the qualities needed for effective action.’ Going by the above definitions, President Goodluck Jonathan is perhaps the most academically qualified Nigerian President ever.
“By cognate qualification, no President has had the experience, preparation and tutelage for the post of the President than Goodluck Jonathan. He was a Deputy Governor, a Governor, a Vice President, and an Acting President and an elected President.”
With these backgrounds, Okupe said it was obvious that the President had the requisite qualification for effective action.
He said the nation faced numerous challenges before Jonathan became President, saying this would “probably disprove the Governor Babatunde Fashola’s ‘Mechanic allegory.’”
Okupe listed those challenges to include power, infrastructural decay, and youth unemployment, inability to diversify the economy, economic instability, insecurity and corruption.
On Jonathan achievements so far, he listed them to include among others, the award of contract for construction of Benin-Sagamu road, concession of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the ongoing work on the Abuja-Lokoja Expressway.
In the aviation sector, Okupe said 22 airports had been earmarked for remodeling and rehabilitation.
Of these, he said 11 had been completed and inaugurated, adding that five new terminals in Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Enugu as well as six Cargo Terminals would begin this year.
Okupe said no Nigerian expected the level of insurgency that the Jonathan administration inherited on assumption of office.
He, however, said the from January to November 2012, going by the figures supplied by the Intelligence Reports and Independence Survey, bombings had reduced by about 50 per cent in the country.

Source: Punch Nigeria

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Osaze Odemwingie’s Marriage In Trouble

-
Image
Insiders have disclosed to societynowng that the marriage of Nigerian international footballer, Osaze Odemwingie is troubled. The sources claim family members and friends are of the conviction that ‘marriage is having an adverse effect on his career’. Before he embraced downward spiral after his marriage – Odemwingie was a darling of football fans both in his country and club. The West Brom Albion striker got married to his wife, Sarah Fallon on 26 May 2012- after two years of dating. He engaged authorities of the nation’s football governing body- Nigerian Football Federation and national team coach in a manner that attracted wide spread condemnation and got him sidelined. The former Locomotive Moscow star went on to engage club authorities in similar manner, to an extreme of single handedly trying to switch to another club. The move earned him wide spread ridicule. It also forced him out of team play and reduced him to the status of ‘training material’. Information
Read more

Nigerians Are Good People Indeed

-
Image
The dispatch with which ordinary Nigerians rescued the motorist whose vehicle plunged into the Lagos lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge on Saturday, January 26, 2013 proved once more that Nigerians are great people. Unlike most stories from Nigeria that usually end on a sad and demoralising note, this story ended on a happy note like a Nollywood film. It was nothing short of a miracle. The sole occupant of that vehicle was brought out of the lagoon alive. But he was not rescued by the Nigerian Navy or the Nigeria Police Force; neither was he rescued by the National Emergency Management Agency or Lagos State Emergency Management Agency or any agency of Lagos State. Mr Shola Oladimeji was rescued by fishermen.  These were not fishermen that used modern boats with special gadgets or equipment. These were men with old-fashioned canoes with paddles. They saw a car plunge into the water and went swiftly and got the occupant of the vehicle out, alive.  Before the government a
Read more

Police Arrest Redeemers University Student Over Death Of Suspected Gay Banker

-
Image
Homicide detectives of the Lagos State Criminal Investigations Department, Panti, Yaba, have arrested an undergraduate of the Redeemers University, Ogun State, in connection with the brutal murder of a suspected gay banker, Adindu Ohamara. According to sources, the banker was on April 9, found in a pool of his blood in his room, having been stabbed severally by the suspect. Six persons were thereafter arrested in connection with the crime by detectives from the Homicide Unit of the State Criminal Investigations Department ,SCID,in Panti, Lagos State. Some of the persons picked-up by the Police included, a sister of the deceased, Flora who regained her freedom on Wednesday. DailyPost has gathered that detectives finally picked up the male student from the Redeemers University, located along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun state who is now termed the prime suspect. According to our sources, the prime suspect, name withheld, initially denied knowing the deceased while be
Read more