"Why Jonathan Will Lose" - Murray Allibalogun

I think PDP have reached their lowest points in selling falsehoods. It's now, when the novelty is wearing off, that the grind of campaigning with a huge weight of mudslinging on Jonathan has become boring, a nuisance and none fruitful.

The substantial amount of money spent on voters' buying still hasn't had the desired big impact. Obviously, Nigerians can't hold umbrellas with holes, thinking they would not leak, as the falling rain obey the laws of nature and create hazards to dissolvable salts of misrule and that of the unprotected sleeves of most coats and jackets laden with political lies and empty promises as in the case of the propagated lies of Jonathan.

Like most Nigerians, In the period leading to 2011 presidential election, I thought Nigerians had seen the light at the end of the tunnel and I had intense exhilaration of believing that a seemingly educated and a PhD certificated Presidential hopeful, promising to deliver 'Heaven and Earth' would turn out to be our long desired Messiah. 

Unfortunately, the bad news is when we voted Jonathan, thinking that we had entrusted in him to deliver uninterrupted electricity, quality education for our children, good health care, a corrupt-free Nigeria as well as a secured Nigeria but our long futile wait has now become nerve-racking...as things have become worse than our 2011 baseline assessments.

One of the PDP's façades that I do have a desperate urge to a vow is that of Nigeria rail reform! So far so good, it's been a fantastically staged-managed campaign efforts by PDP; using imported refurbished locomotives that are not fit for purposes, they could hardly fit in on the derelict old-rusted rails and unable to move short distances. The only good about the locomotives are in the internal parts; interior decoration which have shoulder-levered generator-operated air conditioners, state-of-the- art-furniture, specifically installed for the grandstanding commissioning so far done by Jonathan. 

Again I have tingling sensation thinking through the problem of fuel scarcity blamed on opposition party (APC), it's like blaming your son as the reason for not loving his mother. I keep myself in bated anxiety by anticipating that PDP would soon denounce the senseless accusation and try to give it a very wide berth but they are yet to do so.

War on terror and abducted Chibok girls are our eyesores. Belated victories recorded recently count for nothing as thousands of lives had been lost due to gross negligence of Jonathan.

I am so keen on hearing issue based campaign rather than mudslinging, self-validated track record of achievements and self-adoration embarked on by PDP and whilst failing to express remorse on his government's engrained and enduring corrupt practises and its ill-implemented programmes. 

It seemed to me that talking with friends who were card carrying members of PDP would help me to better understand PDP failings but this was not as easy and friendly conversation as I'd thought. Those friends were very verbally aggressive and shifting blames. They came up with an amazingly petulant excuse that Nigeria's difficulties predated Jonathan's rule and had subsisted during Buhari's regime.

They refused to admit to the obvious truth that Jonathan is not leading by example and that he has on purpose weakened the operational elements of governance; subverting anticorruption institutions and superintending the most heinous and dastardly heist of our national treasury at a higher scale than was attributed to Abacha. There was too much profanity in their engagements. With the level of damage already done by Jonathan and "when not if Buhari wins" I dread finding there's a long process of National rehabilitation ahead.

This is my takeaway for Nigerians!

Murray Allibalogun.