Jonathan was by far the best leader this Country ever had - By Zainab Abba Haliru

Temidayo my friend, Jonathan was by far the best leader this country ever had. I said this in 2013, 14 and 15. And I still hold this belief.
The man was vilified by Nigerians because his kind of intelligent leadership style was alien to us. We are more used crude leaders who treat us the way Buhari is doing right now. Therefore when a more sophisticated one came along we called him weak. As him nor kuku arrest Buhari and co when they were using Boko haram to make the country ungovernable for him.To most Nigerians his sophistication is looked upon as weakness.
I mean name one leader in Nigeria other than Jonathan who surrounded himself with ministers who knew what they were doing? Look at the suave way Okonjo Iweala kept us afloat even when things we're not so good for us financially? The woman fought corruption by creating TSA and BVN. There was no noise. Food was affordable and life was bearable.
Education never had it better under any government. Our universities began to see progress because funds from Tetfund were utilised judiciously. Go around Nigerian Universities and you will see better lecture theatres, better trained lecturers. With Jonathan, anyone who had eyes and any sense at all would have noticed that his programs were more developmental in nature. Most of such programs take longer time to yield benefit which I must say are more enduring. You must have noticed how fixated Buhari is with some of those programs, like TSA and BVN.
Oh Jonathan had his faults. When they reared their heads and we spoke up against them, he had enough sense and flexibility to adjust them. For instance when we kicked against increments in fuel costs, he gave us SURE P and YOU WIN to soften the blow. His government tried every thing to save up for days like we are experiencing now, but Buhari and his gang would not let him. Karma is heaping the repercussions of that trick on them right now. Oh I love Karma!!!
Nigerians called Jonathan clueless and Karma is right now giving us a lesson in cluelessness with governors like El Rufai, ministers like Dalung and government heads like grass cutter Babacir. We broke it. We are buying it.

Zainab Abba Haliru

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