hehehehe....Movie producer, Dickson Iroegbu, penned a public apology to former President Goodluck Jonathan for what he
described as "ganging up" with other Nigerians against his government in
2012 when the former president, attempted to remove oil subsidy. Continue to
read Dickson's letter abeg
Dear
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, I write to apologize on behalf of myself
and the many repentant Nigerians like me who ganged up against your
government in 2012. Your government's policy to remove subsidy on the
Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as patrol was completely
misconstrued by us. I was personally deceived by my overzealous
comradely towards millions of Nigerians who had traveled to various
locations at that time to spend Christmas with their loved ones. I was
particularly concerned about NDIIGBO who traditionally returned home in
droves during this period every year. Sir, like millions of Nigerians I
worked for your victory at the polls in 2011, but I considered the
untoward hardship the removal of subsidy on the 1st of January 2012 as
insensitive. It was simply seen as going to inflict serious hardship on
the millions who voted you to power; hence we arose against it.
Yes
I did join the protest, but my dear Sir, I did not consider the long
term positive effect it would have on the economy of our beloved nation
at that particular moment. We joined forces with the NLC and the TUC,
and alongside your political enemies we mobilized hundreds of thousands
of people in protest across the nation.
I
matched with my colleagues from my then abode in Aguda through Surulere
(National Stadium), to Ojelegba, through Maryland, to Ojota where we
met a marmot crowd. The police and all other law enforcement agents
under your democratic leadership were very civil with us; we were never
harassed or molested nor killed. In fact a certain overzealous police
man who accidentally shot at a young man in Mushin area in Lagos during
that protest was not only dismissed from service, but he was also
prosecuted and jailed!
SIR, YOU ARE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A DEMOCRATIC LEADER IN AFRICA!
There
in Ojota, Pastor Tunde Bakare and Sheik Ahmad Abubakar Gumi and Seun
Kuti, and many many others were there. Even my brother Okey Bakassi was
there too! We sang and danced, we gyrated, we cooked and slept there in
the open arena protected by the police, the civil defence, etc.
The
next day we woke up matched on to Ikoyi and converged at Falamo bridge,
where Ali Baba, Prof. Pat Utomi, and the rich men children were
gathered - we had matched through YABA and IDUMOTA, chanting the
resurrected songs of King Fela Anikulapo Kuti. We called you names like,
the shameless shoeless one, the animal in human skin, innumerable and
unprintable names!
Even
when you came out in a nationwide broadcast and addressed the people as
President and father of the nation explaining why you took that
unpopular decision, urging the masses to understand and bear with you
for a while, we said no way! We remained adamant! We booed you! We
insulted you!
Mr.
President Sir, please find it in your heart to forgive us. We did not
know what we were doing then; but we understand better now. The same
people who deceived us have turned around and increase the pump price
through the back door, in the guise of subsidy removal. They have
inflicted hardship on the Nigerian masses you love so much. You were not
perfect, but you were a loving father to all of us, you were President
and C-in-C to the North, South, West and the East, but we vilified and
treated you with disrespect and ignominy.
Sir,
the economy that flourished under your watch as President which
positioned us as number one economy in Africa and one of 25 fastest
growing economies in the world is now at its lowest ebb in just one year
of misrule. In just one year of your exit Nigeria our beloved country
has become a shadow of herself! The picture is so gloomy, inflation rate
is so high! The masses cannot even put food on their tables, darkness
everywhere, electricity generation is at all time very lowest - killings
and maiming, evil looms; our nation Nigeria is under attack!
May
be you could just say a word of prayer sir, "May Nigeria not erupt in
flames and violence under the current draconian administration" - Sir I
say that because there is so much hunger in the land, and as they say, a
hungry man is an angry man! A HUNGRY PEOPLE NA CONFUSION!
Please
find it in your heart to forgive and forget, for indeed we ganged up
against you wrongly. We didn't know that we were doing wrong to
our-own-selves. May God bless you with long life and good health.
Warm regards.
#CitizenNigeria
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Di.
#CitizenNigeria
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Di.
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