Dear Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,
Though I was one of those who made the
system “hot” for you when you were in office through endless articles
and criticism on national dailies and online blogs, however, I regret to
say that just within 13 months that you relinquished the insignia of
power, the prices of essential commodities have gone out of the reach of
common people.
Things are so bad that Nigerians now
steal pot of soup on fire. Nigeria is now drifting towards the ABACHA
era. Nigerians have watched and still watching in aghast as things
suddenly gone awry. No essential basic amenity is working in Nigeria as I
write.
Your successors have refused to tar a
kilometer of road since you left and those roads that you constructed,
rehabilitated and reconstructed have been abandoned. The Federal Roads
Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has been technically scrapped.
Of course, things were not rosy under you but today, the situation is worst and pathetic.
Dear Goodluck Jonathan, I want to concur
with your critics that you presided over a festival of corruption but
common people never had it bad this way when you were in Abuja. We
thought the economy was bad then, but today, it is hemorrhaging. The
only thing working presently in Nigeria is the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission’s massive probe of your party’s CAMPAIGN FUNDS.
Nonetheless, the purpose of writing you
this epistle is just to inform you that the Kaduna-Abuja Rail that you
constructed and the train you bought for the use of Nigerians which WE called Locomotive product was commissioned by President Buhari a week ago.
Dear Dr. Jonathan, history will be kind
to you for being the only President Nigeria ever had that has no
skyscraper anywhere on the world. While your predecessor, Olusegun
Obasanjo and his deputy, Atiku Abubakar built private universities for
themselves and their families, you built 12 and 6 public universities
and polytechnics respectively for the use of Nigerians
Thousands of Nigerians got gainful employments through the aforementioned institutions.
The national minimum wage that you gave
to Nigerians is now being taking away by those who took power from you.
Prices of petrol, cooking gas and kerosene are no more within the reach
of common people.
Yam, pepper, onions, rice, beans, garri and even corn are gradually becoming the food of the ELITES in Nigeria.
The federal teaching hospitals that you
built and upgraded are now at the mercy of “no drugs”. Medical
personnels are now working without motivation. It’s stories of strike
actions everyday in the health sector.
The situation of power supply in Nigeria
has gone from bad to poor. Massive jobs lost now pervade the organised
private sector. Entrepreneurs are now wailing as businesses shutdown
everyday.
The automobile motor plants that you facilitated to Nigeria are now returning back to when you brought them from.
Sadly and most Unfortunately, the media
industry that connived with your opponents to send you out of office and
still in conviviality with the government of the day, aka the ELITES,
to the detriment of the common people.
Dr. Jonathan, please note that you are
not a saint but time and events have proven that majority of your
critics are empty barrels. They are noisemakers. Time has showed that
they are worse than you.
The rights to speech and expression that
we enjoyed under you has now moved from rights to privileges. Your
wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, was derided as “local”, but she never
called a sitting governor a MAD DOG.
Let me just stop here, Sir.
I’m Adeyemi Adeleye writing from Aafin Compound, Ilogbo-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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