If there is one thing that hasn’t work well for President Goodluck Jonathan, it is the calibre of men and women who he has appointed in various positions. Here are 6 personalities that have further dented president’s personal image and image of his administration.
1.Alhaji Bamanga Tukur
His disastrous tenure as PDP’s national chairman was the biggest game changer for the PDP from which it might never recover. Bamanga’s tenure also coincided is the period when three major opposition parties were consolidating into one major opposition party, but the chairman face to recognised the emerging, Instead, he encouraged the party leader to settle personal scores within the party. It was a cover for Bamanga to also settle personal scores of his own. He suspended a state governor for refusing to answer his phone calls. He watched akimbo as seven governors formed a faction called ‘the new PDP’ (nPDP), and he didn’t care a hoot when five governors jumped ship and joined the APC.
2.Chief Edwin Clark
As soon as Dr Goodluck Jonathan rose to the presidency, this Gowon-era Information Minister created for himself a position hitherto unknown in Nigeria politics, that of the president’s ethnic godfather. No yoruba pontentate occupied the post during Olursegun Obasanjo’s eight years and even the feeble President Umaru Yar’adua has no such godfather. Rather than use his extra-constitutional position to steady the president’s position, Clark use it to create numerous enemies for Jonathan through his use of intemperate language and regular assaults at dissenting folks.
3.Mrs Diezani Allison Madueke
No one get to sit atop Nigeria’s oil industry without making many enemies. Mrs Allinson Madueke’s beauty, fluent english and polished manner gained for her a lot of mileage, but the sleaze in the oil industry ultimately caught up with her. Most damaging have been the scandalous rip offs in oil subsidy payment, the botched attempt to remove the oil subsidy in 2012, Sanusi allegation of the missing 20 billion dollars and the reported 10 billion naira to hire private jet, not to mention the failure to pass the PIB bill.
4.Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
The first ever coordinating Minister fancies herself as an Economy wunderkid as per with German chancellor Konrad Adenauer or the Japanese prime Minister Salo, while most Nigerians thought economy condition were harsh. Mrs Okonjo-Iweala bandied figures and said it is among the best managed in the world. This sharp discrepancy between the officials claim and people’s feelings did much damage to the adminstration’s credibilty. Nor was there any preparations of the public mind for the steep fall in oil prices, the sharp drop on external reserve and the pecipitous decline of the naira.
5.Dame Patience Jonathan
In the last five decades Nigerian first ladies have often been mired in one controversy or another. Mrs Patience Jonathan however stands in the class of her own making gaffes and ill-advice actions that badly affected the public image of her husband’s regime. Worst of them all was her intervention in the Chibok girls’ saga and her futile attempts to prove that her husband’s political enemies ochestrated the whole affair. Her quarrel with Rotimi Amaechi, governor of her home state, also resulted in PDP’s most impactful loss of a political figure.
6.Mujaheed Dokubo Asari
The ex militant’s coarse manner, intemperate language and his own threats against whole region of the country supposedly in Jonathan’s service did much political damage. Asari was later joined by ex-militants to threaten war against the country should Jonathan lose the election. Their joint threat jointly antagonised non-partisan opinion all over the country.
