**LACK OF ELIGIBLE ADVICE!** Nigerians Disappointed, Rate Presidential Media Chat Low Majority of Nigerians were disappointed at President Goodluck Jonathan’s media chat which the president used as an opportunity to talk to the nation.This one is crucial as Nigeria celebrate her 53rd Independence on Tuesday, 1st October, 2013. President Goodluck Jonathan play down the issue of corruption, clainming that corruption is not the main problem of Nigeria but was third under a survey conducted by the United Nation. He sighted the other problems as lack of infrastructure and inability to access fund to do business as problems that bothers foreign investors. He also says at a forum to discuss the issue of corruption with civil society organised by the presidency they discovered that corruption was down on the list, yet he didn’t explain what exactly was the problem. The president reiterated that it was a matter of perception. He quoted Adolf Hitler propaganda minister Goebbel of saying if you repeatedly say a lie over and over again it begins to sound like the truth, blaming the media and priest and others for making it sound like corruption is the main problem of Nigeria without really clarifying what the main problems are and how to tackle the problems with Nigeria. In a survey carried out after the media chat on social media and phone chats with Nigerians across the country and in the Diaspora, majority of Nigerians who watch the Presidential media chat were simply disappointed. Most of the people who responded to NEWISSUES said the president left the nation gloomier, uncertain and even hopeless as regarding the ASUU strike that has kept university students at home for over two and a half month,security, as Boko Haram struck the night after president Jonathan announced his media chat attacking College of Agriculture, Gujba in Yobe State, killing over 40 students in their sleep. Goodluck Jonathan also insisted his party the PDP has done relatively well, sighting GSM as an achievement. “Before, telephone lines are very few that even Directors don’t have a phone, now even my grandmother in the village has one,” the president has said smiling during the media chat. Even Goodluck Jonathan supporters rate the PDP low but say Nigeria ‘s problems cannot be solved in a day as subsequent administrations have left everything to grow into a monster before Goodluck Jonathan took over. Even the president accepted that in the chat that most of Nigeria’s problems had developed into a cancer and cannot be tackled immediately as he compared the oil theft problem with Boko Haram terrorism. Goodluck accepted that Boko Haram started even before Umar Musa Yar’adua but was not tackled by his predeccessors until it manifested into the cancer we are seeing today. Few respondents rate the president fairly well and said some politicians have made it difficult for the president to do his job by always distracting him over taking power in 2015.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:07:22 +0000
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