{"id":3224,"date":"2014-11-24T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2014-11-24T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:11:47","slug":"jonathan-to-obasanjo-im-nigerias-best-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan to Obasanjo: I\u2019m Nigeria\u2019s best leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Jonathan and Obasanjo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Goodluck Jonathan has described himself as the best leader to be produced by Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The President said no leader since the country gained independence in 1960 had done better than himself for the country.<\/p>\n

He, therefore, said the comment made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in which the ex-President described Jonathan\u2019s performance as below average, was untrue.<\/p>\n

Jonathan said this in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, in Abuja on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Okupe\u2019s statement read, \u201cOur attention has been drawn to comments made by a former President of this country, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, regarding the performance of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n

\u201cObasanjo had at an event over the weekend declared that he rated the President Goodluck Jonathan administration \u2018below average\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe aver that Obasanjo\u2019s comments are untrue, misleading and clearly do not tally with the facts on the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe therefore wish to assert without equivocation that in terms of performance and achievements, no administration since 1960 when Nigeria gained independence from Britain, has done as much as that of President Jonathan.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that every discerning and unbiased Nigerian would definitely attest to this \u201cas the evidence stare all of us in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okupe, who had also worked with the former President while in office, added that contrary to Obasanjo\u2019s position, the Federal Government under Jonathan had performed excellently given the prevailing circumstances and resources available to it.<\/p>\n

He said while it was true that Nigeria had been faced with incidents of insurgency and terrorism, especially in the last few years, the Jonathan administration had successfully contained the initial widespread activities of the insurgents, which he said were prevalent in 12 states of the North, including the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cWhile it is true that the present activities of the terrorists in the three north-eastern states have become more deadly in mindless killings, kidnappings and supposed territorial seizures, government has made giant diplomatic strides with our neighbouring countries in order to checkmate the crisscrossing of the insurgents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe military and other security agents, which have engaged the insurgents since inception, have done a great job in spite of recent challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth of the matter which we must know and accept is that we have an internal enemy supported by internal and external resources waging a major warfare against our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: The Punch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Goodluck Jonathan has described himself as the best leader to be produced by Nigeria. The President said no leader since the country gained independence in 1960 had done better than himself for the country. He, therefore, said the comment made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in which the ex-President described Jonathan\u2019s performance as below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Obasanjo-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Q0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}