A Northern political leader and
former presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention in
the aborted Third Republic, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, has traced the problems
confronting the nation to alleged weakness of President Goodluck Jonathan to
take major decisions on issues related to governance.
The former chairman of the elders
committee of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, (ANPP) told Saturday Mirror
in an interview in Kano yesterday that the president had failed to execute
properly his responsibilities as the leader of the Nigerian people, resulting
in most of the socio-political and economic problems bedevilling the country
“President Jonathan is too quiet,
too patient, and too careless; he has to realise that he is the leader, nobody
can execute his responsibilities for him, they are all his and his duty is not
just to sit down and keep quiet and allow people to mess him up; he has to do
certain things himself. He must learn to reconcile with other people himself
directly, he should not allow other people to represent him and do things that
he is supposed to do himself,” Tofa said.
The veteran politician argued
further that if he were President Jonathan, “I will list all the major issues
that needed to be addressed and see those that I can personally deal with and
go ahead and deal with them.
Like the issues affecting the
governors, I will call them personally, hear from them what their problems are
and see how to get them resolved. “The president should try and look at all
these issues of corruption, bunkering and others. He should list them down and
plot a strategy that will deal with the situation including dealing with anyone
involved in such crime irrespective of position”.
He advised the President to use the
remaining part of his tenure to free his conscience by genuinely working
towards radical transformation of the country, pointing out that failure to do
so would lead him into more serious trouble as everything is blamed on him.
“I must say personally that
Jonathan, from the depth of my heart, is a good man but he is weak he allows
people to mess him up, he doesn’t talk, he doesn’t act and I think he has to
take action. That is his problem, a lot of his people are messing him up, I
have said this a lot of times that Jonathan has to do away with most of his
advisers and reshape his cabinet.,” he said
Source: National Mirror
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