Under regular circumstances, Chidi Amuta is thought about a fantastic author. However things are not typical in today’s Nigeria. With the 2023 general election about one year away, in addition to the cravings in the land, boys are desperately trying to find how to reconnect with old kindred spirits.

Whether triggered by an ancient meal ticket of the west-end media block or the unrepentant Port Harcourt waterfront rebellion, it is obvious and for that reason anticipated that, henceforth, the attack dogs, especially the so-called Lagos Public Relations Media outlets owners, who have actually literally been starving, would begin to hound anybody they presume wants to object to the 2023 governmental election against their benefactors.

It is in the public domain that lots of Nigerians have actually been getting in touch with former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to get ready to lead the country once again. Those contacting Jonathan to contest the 2023 presidential election consist of senior statesmen, prominent conventional and spiritual leaders, serving and previous governors, top legislators, women and youth groups, among many others. In spite of their different underbelly intentions, one unifying decimal among the pro-Jonathan campaigners is the requirement to reclaim and combine Nigeria and her people who are currently at war with one another. According to them, Nigeria can not manage to wait on a new person who would be asking for time to study how to be a president as there is no time at all. Some of them have also stated that Jonathan has gathered the requisite experience, particularly for the period he has run out federal government to identify things that require to be done differently, to quickly accomplish anticipated outcomes of reconstructing Nigeria. They for that reason say, that Jonathan must not ‘siddon-de-look’ when your home is on fire.

Despite the fact that the former president has actually never ever said at any occasion that he will object to the president’s office once again, Jonathan’s substantial shadow is already searching desperados, who, by all requirements, are not supposed to be mentioned where and when quality leadership is a subject of conversation, due to the fact that of the evil they have actually done on the nation and its people, have unleashed rehabilitation-needing PR agents on the political landscape.

And rather of focusing attention on how to launder the battered image of their paymasters, who are declared to be either remarkably corrupt (apologies to David Cameron) and not healthy to run, in addition to others, presumed of selling the nation to a foreign nation to get unserviceable, cigarette smoking locomotives, the hirelings are rather grabbing tar, to deface imaginary opponents.

If it were not so, what is the encouraging factor for Chidi Amuta’s unfavorable deviation from all known principles and standards of his trade, to place a slanderous post he titled- The Staying Power of Mrs. Jonathan in a credible paper like Thisday?

In the severely written piece, laced generally with innuendos, and published on January 9, 2022, Amuta tried fruitless to reject Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, then decided to dedicate more than 90 percent of his time, buffooning and insulting Dame Mrs. Patience Jonathan, partner of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and previous First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Hear him- “Mr. Jonathan’s (Mr. Jonathan’s?) and his handlers were content with him saying ordinary things in too many pedestrian words. His speeches find out more like apprentice school seminar documents than lofty governmental pronouncements. Power without rhetoric or unforgettable elocution is the disaster of unintentional management and unintended ascendancy.”

How could any literate Nigerian, in this case, a university graduate and writer, say that as president, Jonathan’s “speeches learn more like apprentice school seminar documents than lofty presidential declarations”? Is it the very same president Jonathan that the entire world is still applauding for saying that his political ambition is not worth the blood of any person?

“I reassure all Nigerians and the worldwide neighborhood of our firm dedication to totally free, trustworthy and reasonable elections. My commitment to totally free elections and one man, one vote, stay steadfast.” Is it the same Jonathan that Chidi Amuta was writing about or another?

It was rather apparent that Chidi Amuta failed to find anything concrete to write against Jonathan and for that reason, in order to at least have something to print out and to retire his claim, he chose to turn the keyboard of his laptop towards Jonathan’s better half.

Reality is, whether Dr. Goodluck Jonathan accepts to object to the 2023 governmental election (Of course, he can pursue his destiny within the ambit of law), his exceptional record of landmark accomplishments has been etched as strong footprints on the sands of time.

It is no mean feat that. after acting as Nigeria’s president, Jonathan is presently the Chairperson of the International Summit Council for Peace, ISCP (Africa) and Special Envoy of the ECOWAS and other global bodies. He sets about, within and outside the continent, waging peace and reconciling countries and individuals in dispute.

As Nigeria’s president, it was Jonathan that signed the Freedom of Information Bill into law that has provided the similarity Chidi Amuta the liberty to speak and compose their minds, to demand and be supplied information from government and economic sector professionals, on how citizens are federal government.

As president, Jonathan invested greatly on education, developed 14 federal universities along with polytechnics and colleges of education. His administration established 165 Almajiri schools across Northern states. He produced the Treasury Single Account (TSA). It is because of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), produced by his administration and made first-line charge in monthly expenditures that federal civil servants now receive their pensions and incomes, all in safe baskets, routinely, and as at when due, no matter the economic striation.Jonathan’s administration was responsible for the big investment and favorable outcomes on the country’s train system. It was Jonathan who approved the admission of female cadets into the Nigeria Defence Academy through which the country now has lots of female combat helicopter pilots. There is no space here to list the numerous achievements of Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. It would be an unforgivable oversight not to remember Jonathan’s

human rights records, as there was no political detainee throughout his tenure as president as well as electoral process reforms, the conduct of the 2015 general election and tranquil handover of power. It is also deserving of note that the existing federal government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari has embraced and has actually continued to combine on the gains made by Jonathan’s administration in some of the locations mentioned above as well as massive financial investment in the farming sector through the various interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN ), to name a few. Faced with these daunting and indisputable truths, and therefore, the ill-fate of his mission, Chidi Amuta rapidly

abandoned his project of discrediting Jonathan and resorted, rather shamefully, to calling Dame Patience Jonathan all sorts of names, recasting her previous speeches and how she could not speak good English, as if speech eloquence or proficiency of English language is a required quality in management, specifically for a president’s better half. “Educated “Nigerians like Chidi Amuta are supposed to understand that in Tanzania, Kenya, Libya, Cuba and numerous other serious countries,

federal government businesses are conducted mostly in Swahili and other regional languages, in order for the people to genuinely comprehend what the leaders are stating. Possibly Amuta requires to be informed that instead of the application of a colonial locket, like English language, real communication is speaking to the people in the basic language they can understand. That is why when Americans, French, Lebanese, Indians, Chinese and serious organization individuals from other nations arrive Nigeria, they quickly earn how to speak regional version of English and other languages in order to genuinely interact with the people. Do I require to say that both the BBC, VOA and other global media outlets are welcoming the use of BBC Pidgin and others to regional interpretations of Chidi Amuta’s Queen’s English? Much as they would, and are anticipated to attempt, in the coming days and months, it would be difficult for people like Chidi Amuta to justify their renumerations, because, there is no

phony mixture they will boil afresh against Dr. Goodluck Jonathan that has actually not been served by their’lie-lie ‘kindreds in the past. As they state- “Darkness can not understand the LIGHT.” Bonaventure Phillips Melah is an Abuja-based Journalist and author of many books. Actions to 08036062975. [e-mail secured] DailyPost