Tofa cautions Jonathan on Rivers crisis share [By Ted Odogwu, Kano] Former presidential candidate on the platform of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Othman Tofa, has cautioned President Goodluck Jonathan on the current imbroglio in Rivers State. He noted that this is clearly a very dangerous phenomenon not only to the lives of Governor Amaechi and his family, but to the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria. While advising that the trend must be stopped immediately, Tofa noted that the President must realise that he is treading on a very dangerous course, and he needs to be advised for his own sake. According to him, “President Jonathan may be a good man at heart, but he seems to be a very weak leader, who just does what some hirelings close to him ask him to do or may be, even do without his consent, but cannot say or do anything to call them to order. “There must be a few people around who must summon the courage to tell him the truth, one of which is that the day will surely come when he will no longer be the President, in just a few years time, and the law will then catch up with him. “If, for whatever reason, someone dies in Rivers State as a result of this unfortunate fracas, the President cannot escape liability, even if it is vicarious. However, Tofa noted that we witnessed what happened to the former Governor of Bayelsa, Mr. Sylva Timpere, out of this personal vendetta; and we have seen what happened at the Nigerian Governors Forum, just to project self-interest. Most people, according to Tofa blame the President and his First Lady for fermenting these rather unpresidential behaviors, just as he counseled the President to begin to act as the President, above these fetish things, and do away with visiting vengeance or calamity on those he was told that do not support him. He may have enemies even in his own house, and he has to find a wiser way of dealing with situations like that. In conclusion, he advised. President Jonathan to recollect himself, be strong and be the leader that we all expect him to b, noting that trivialities and vengeance are not the food of leaders, but that of fools.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:12:46 +0000
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