By Yetunde Arebi
THERE is no gainsaying the fact that some people are out to mess up the Dr Goodluck Jonathan-led government. During and after the campaign for 2011 national elections many politicians swore that they would make the country ungovernable for Jonathan if they did not win.

These threats were made on pages of our national newspapers during press briefings granted by these ambitious politicians. Jonathan,in his kindness ignored those threats. If either Obasanjo or Buhari were president when such threats were made, believe you me,those politicians would either be dead now or be behind bars. Today, many of the politicians who made treasonable threats are now members of the All Progressives Congress, APC and they want us to believe that Jonathan is not only incompetent in ruling the country but also insensitive to the plight of the masses .

Meanwhile, few days after the Nyanya bomb blast, Jonathan continued his earlier-scheduled PDP rally in one of the Northern states and APC expectedly criticised Jonathan for making the journey at a time the country was mourning. How many of these APC members put on sackcloth or declared fasting in their states to show they are/were mourning?They should thank God immensely that they have a gentleman as president else they would have been behind bars.

Let them ask Pastor Tunde Bakare how many times he was arrested by law enforcement agents during the Obasanjo regime. The said Bakare is a Christain just like Obasanjo but that was not enough for Obasanjo to spare the man of God anytime he preached against his government. Today any urchin can boldly abuse Jonathan on the pages of newspapers and Jonathan will still allow them to be. Very soon the newly-found missing Malaysian plane will be linked with the Jonathan government.

I so much like Nigerians for this reason: We always abuse any opportunity given to us, hence the current abuse of the freedom of information given to us by Jonathan. Where were these progressives during the Obasanjo and Abacha regimes?During the Obasanjo regime, did the Nigeria Governors Forum wield the type of power they wield today?In fact, few people knew of its existence until gentleman Jonathan assumed power.

I often ask if these APC members see us as fools as they play out their political gimmicks. Who is Buhari in Nigerian politics to talk when democrats are talking? If it were in developed climes,the likes of Buhari would been barred for life in politics. This is a man who truncated our democratically elected government.

He placed his Fulani brother, Shehu Shagari,under house arrest, while Ekwueme was jailed without trial; that was leaving the anus that farted to knock the head.He gagged the press through his dastardly Decree No 4. Today,he tries to convince gullible minds that it is the turn of the North to be president. Did he not know about the federal character or zoning arrangement when he chose another Northerner as his deputy when he was military head of state, even when power had virtually been with the North since the July 29,1966 counter-coup? What was he doing with his victims at the SSS office in Ikoyi Lagos during his regime as the military head of state?Today he wants to tell us that he has undergone some sort of metamorphosis and is now a true democrat who will obey the rule of law?

The obnoxious Decree No 2 allowed Buhari and his second in command to arrest and permanently detain innocent citizens without trial or legal representation. But what do we see today? Even Boko Haram suspects still enjoy their rights to fair hearing. The arrest,re-arrest and trial of now convicted Kabiru Sokoto will tell the world that Jonathan obeys the rule of law.

Would Buhari kill Kabiru Sokoto without trial if he were the president or would he permanently keep Sokoto under house arrest as he did to his Fulani brother, Alhaji Shagari? This is the man that wants to come back as our president? I heard him saying he would sue the Federal Government for linking him with Boko Haram.

If it were during his autocratic regime,would anyone be permitted to make such declaration? Buhari should stop making more threats about the 2015 elections and apologise for saying that baboons and dogs would be soaked in blood. In fact, he and other like-minded politicians should be brought to book for proposing to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan.Buhari,in particular, must tell us how baboons and dogs will be soaked in blood after the 2015 elections.

Expectedly, APC criticised the President for attending to an earlier scheduled PDP rally when the nation was mourning the victims of Nyanya bomb blast. Yet, the same APC governors refused to come to the national security council meeting.

Tomorrow,they will tell us that Jonathan is not only insensitive to the plight of the masses,he is also incompetent in protecting lives of the citizens. In our constitution, the governors are the chief security officers of their states. What have they done to nip these security challenges in the bud in their respective states before calling on Jonathan? It is open knowledge that Boko Haram members live in certain communities in certain local governments.

Where are the community leaders,councillors,local government chairmen in these Boko Haram states? Can they not assist the JTF with useful information on how to track down these Boko Haram members. Curiously, the APC states are the strongholds of Boko Haram.What have the APC governors done to counter the sect?In terms of development,are APC states better than PDP states? APC, which some people call Angry People Congress, currently harbours many frustrated elements in Nigerian politics.

That possibly explains why they are rabidly opposed to President Jonathan, while promoting the principle of if you cannot join them, kill them.

instance,Buhari who has been losing all the presidential elections that he has contested and Tinubu who does not have any political value outside southwest and so many of them that were disappointed politically,they are the core-members of APC. Now they are using the principle of :if you cannot join them,kill them. Imagine El-Rufai that frustrated a lot of people through the destruction of their houses and shops without compensation to cushion the effects of such untold hardship on the lives of the citizenry,now he wants to tell us that he is a saint in Nigerian politics.

Please tell these APC members that we are aware of their tricks since from their own standard, whatever Jonathan says or does is wrong. Recently,Nigeria was adjudged the largest economy in Africa,these disgruntled elements in APC still contested that. They cannot see any good thing in Jonathan-led government except bad things.

Princess Stella Oduah is gone,they are presently disturbing us on the pages of newspapers about what the money Mrs Allison Madueke allegedly mismanaged should have been used for but they forget that the money they are paying the media houses to advertise that rubbish daily should equally have saved lives that the alleged Mrs Madueke’s mismanaged money never saved. Who do they think they are deceiving?Believe you me,when they are through with Mrs Allison-Madueke,they will proceed with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala after which it will be time for Jonathan proper.

All these things are coming up now because they know that Jonathan is a gentleman and obviously tolerating. How many of them were vocal during Obasanjo regime. I think we the electorate should be wiser than these old foxes called APC in that their roles are just to discredit Jonathan-led government and even if Jonathan declares that Jesus is the founder of Christianity while Mohammed is the founder of Islam,these APC will still find a fault in this statement,at least they will ask why did Jonathan mention Jesus before Mohammed?

>   It is now a surprise how Buhari and Atiku made a volte-face immediately they heard that international communities are coming in.They are no longer playing politics with the issue of book haram,they just recently realised that the unity of the country takes preeminence.

Also many of the mischievous citizens are now crying that Jonathan has not visited Chibok or Sambisa forest ,the question then is how many times did the president of the United states of America visit Iraq and Afghanistan during the war against terrorism that America led in those countries?

PAUL JOHN, a public affairs analyst,wrote from Abuja.