Enough of GEJ bashing

By Ali Smart . . .

Yours sincerely has never been a great fan of the immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for reasons l’m not willing to state in this space.

But I deign to admit here that those who have made him a butt of derisive jokes and have been denigrating his person all these while, especially in the recent times are the worst hypocrites who have ever lived.

First was Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, who played a major role during the life of the past regime. Just the other day, the old man, like a child denied his cookies was raising hell, arguing that Jonathan was to blame for his woes.

He went on without let or hindrance, saying Jonathan was a weakling hence couldn’t take the country to the promised land.

Just yesterday, another character, High Chief Raymond Dopkesi, who was one of the dramatis personae involved in the April elections also denounced, the man they had all held up high as the only messiah for Nigeria.

Dopkesi who is the chairman of its National Conference Planning Committee, admitted that it was wrong to have fielded former President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections.

According to him, the defeat of the party is attributable to some errors committed by the party and its leadership.

Read also: Fielding GEJ in 2011, 2015 a mistake -PDP

On whether the mistakes included the candidature of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections, Dokpesi who deployed Daar Communications, owners of Raypower Fm and AIT in the most unconscionable manner during the political hustling, said it was wrong for the party to have abandoned zoning in preference for the former President, adding that the party ought to have allowed the northern part of the country to complete its term when former President Umaru Yar’Adua died in 2010.

The questions l have asked a few times is: If the tables had not turned literarily against Jonathan, would those bellyaching him now do so?

What moral justification do those who benefitted handsomely from the past regime have to blame the person of Jonathan
for his party’s misfortunes at the polls?

Does it mean that the so-called loyalty they showed for the office and person of Jonathan were mere affectations and posturing?

The questions are by no means exhaustive but with fewer answers.

All said, those who have put the search light on Jonathan should direct the search on themselves. They need time for proper introspection. They need to go to purgatory themselves.

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