Tuesday, 22 May 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan Lied-Former Governor Sylva
Chief Timipre Sylva has read with utter dismay some statements credited to the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign rally on Friday, 03 February in Yenagoa.
Two things stand out in the President’s speech. He talked about a stoning incident in Yenagoa that he watched with pleasure and the Tower Hotel project in Yenagoa that was conceptualised by the Government of Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, which Jonathan took over as Governor of Bayelsa State and passed on to Sylva as Governor.
The stoning in Yenagoa happened during the president’s visit and it was widely believed to have been arranged by a few misguided elements, which with the backing of Mr. President, had used the presidential security to subvert the security of the state on purpose to embarrass Governor Sylva. Sponsors of the incident had tried to deny their involvement and present the event as indicative of the governor's non-performance.
The world now knows better, of course. Everyone is now perfectly well aware of the mastermind of that insult on the Ijaw nation.
But let us state that it was not the governor who was disgraced by the stoning. Instead, it was the president himself.
Now, if stoning is a yardstick for non-performance, are we also right to say that the burning down of Mr. President’s house in 2007, in the run-up to that year’s general elections, was also an act of rejection by the people of the state? A lot of people believed that the burning of his house and the action of militants in 2007 were an expression of rejection. Is Mr. President now confirming that wide belief?
In addition, can we also say that the stoning of President Jonathan in May last year in Uganda was a global act of rejection?
Besides, it was after the stoning incident in Yenagoa in late 2010 that Mr. President came back to Yenagoa, raised the hand of Sylva, and spoke glowingly about his achievements, saying he has performed excellently well and that the people of Bayelsa should vote him into office. It was after the stoning that he came back and voted in the January 2011 PDP governorship primaries and gave a glowing report of Sylva's performance. So what suddenly changed from January 2011 to later that year when President Jonathan manipulated all the institutions of state, including the armed and security forces, the judiciary and critical organs of democracy like the political parties, in full cry, leaving the security and economic challenges which he faced, to embark on OPERATION REMOVE SYLVA as the sole mandate which the people of Nigeria gave to him?
Didn’t Jonathan know there was a stoning incident when he came to say Governor Sylva should be voted in January?
President Jonathan also in his speech described the Tower Hotel, Yenagoa, as “a monument of disgrace,” insinuating that the edifice is still at the stage he left it as governor. This is a barefaced lie and a misrepresentation of open facts.
Sylva wishes to clarify that the hotel was at the second floor when he took over from Dr. Jonathan as governor. It is now at its 18th floor, as the whole world can see. Sylva agrees that the job has been delayed, but explains that the reason it has been delayed is because the contractor, whom Dr. Jonathan himself chose and awarded the contract to, asked for a variation of N5 billion.
Let Jonathan tell the world how much he paid this contractor and how much Sylva has paid the contractor. And we are aware that this same contractor is not building a house for Sylva in his village.
Far more than Jonathan’s tenure, Sylva has performed given the challenges he faced.
It is unfortunate that President Jonathan could have such a disgraceful outing last Friday. At a time when it was being widely suspected that he might be involved in the questionable acts around the Bayelsa State governorship contest, his outing on Friday, 03 February, has conclusively proven that all along, he has been behind all the shenanigans in Bayelsa State deliberately to destabilise the state for his own selfish interest.
Nigerians expected President Jonathan to tackle security, unemployment, power, critical infrastructure, etc. They never expected him to manipulate democracy for his strange motives. What all these show clearly is that the exclusion of Sylva from the primaries of November last year was based on nothing other than President Jonathan's inordinate whims. The event of last Friday confirms once again that Sylva has not committed any offence known to the PDP constitution or the Nigerian constitution to warrant his exclusion.
The Bayelsa State governorship race was a critical democratic test case for President Jonathan; and we dare say that he has failed to prove himself as a believer in democracy and free choice. Chief Sylva is in court trying to put right the infractions because he believes our country may be doomed if this subversion of democracy in Bayelsa State is allowed to stand.
DOIFIE OLA
Media Aide to Chief Timipre Sylva
stfu..we stoned sylva cos he
stfu..we stoned sylva cos he was lying about all d achievements he has made...his just a thief..sylva deserves what he is getting he shldnt drag johnathan with him down d road of shame..
SYLVA'S TROUBLES
Bayelsa will xperience a new beginning 2dai after a sucessful election,sylva;s a administration was myopic in developing bayelsa and well being of its populance,its not surprising well clouded with no good heads like its chief of staff and dulled brain advisers,jail is suppose to be your resting place after the supreme court ruling,wicked generation.....the new administration should learn from the former....
President Jonathan's comments on Gov. Slva
Its like a pot calling a kettle black. In the two years that Jonathan was governor of Bayelsa state, what project did he start or complete? Now he wants us to believe he's a good guy...who is constructing a house for him in his village and how much did he pay he person? Who revised the contract for the hotel in Yenagoa and how much variation was made. Jonathan should go and hide...we know the difference between rainfall and water poured on the ground.
Yard stick.
I dey laught woo. Mr. Ebele Azikwe Jonathan Goodluck, did you mean that uncompletion of Five star hotel and stoning as ayard stick of non performance? Too bad..... Anyway, hotel is a convenient place to shark..... In that case, Mr. Sylva you didn't perform, do you want people to shark under tree?
KARMA
ι smell DISSENSION.. Thank God Jonathan's atroCities supporters are beginning to read in between the lines..
TO HELL WITH DIS SYLVA
Nothing will ever grant SYLVA opportunity to hold any political office in Bayelsa, therfore we want to bring to the notice of his supporters that- TO HELL WITH U AND UR SYLVA.
TO HELL WITH DIS SYLVA
What ever GEJ has said is before now believed and accepted to be the truth, but no body has been bold to say it, why because MANY Bayelsans are poor AND NEEDED THE FAVOUR OF SYLVA, therefore THE PREVILAGE FEW (5%) needed Sylva by playing the sycophancy game to keep benefiting. Therefore GEJ need to be congratulated for a JOB well done for delivering Bayelsa FROM THE SHACKLES OF SHAME IN THE HANDS OF SYLVA. IT WAS A GOOD SPEECH FROM GEJ.
Goodluck
Pot calling kettle black
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na so e b
BAYELSA NO NEED IGBO SMOKERS AND LESBIAN I NO. GO SYLVA GO. JUST GIVE DAT IDIOT 6 MONTHS FROM WEN HE WILL LEAVE OFFICE HE WILL BE BROKE DUE TO DRUGS.
Re: Jonathan and Syvia
The same way Syvia was recruited to be Governor the same way he will be disgraced out. Democracy in Nigeria is by selection and not by election of people's choice, therefore, Syvia's turn is over. The power that be wants somebody else this time.
This Jonathan Safe ...
This Nigeria Jonathan never ceases to amaze me. FIVE STAR hotel as a yardstick for good governance?
How many bayelsians would be privileged to use this hotel? Probably less than 0.05%! Of what benefit is FIVE STAR hotel to suffering people of Bayelsa State?
If Syvia's failures are premised on, Hospitals and free health care, Schools and free education, rural road networks, electricity, etc. the elements of governance that one way or the other benefits the masses, every right thinking person would support the stoning of the governor. But for FIVE STAR HOTEL! Nigeria is in trouble with this kind of president.
It is unfortunate that the
It is unfortunate that the C-in-C will bring himself so low fighting his Governor when there are too many problems in the country. Before GEJ starts critcising Sylva for non-performance let him assess himself and his administration first. LET S KNOW GEJ'S SCORE CARD both as Governor and President, the outcome of EFCC investigation before the 2007 election, US$15m case against the first lady etc.
We need to know the Oil business GEJ and Dezani engage through fronts.
The PDP govt is busy imposing more hardship on Nigerians, no food, no infrastructure, poor medicare, people dying daily due bad road, poor medical facilities, no light, no security. BUT Govt Officials are busy spending huge amounts of US$ worldwide
Sylva Should Sponsor bombings on oil installations
The only way Governor Sylva can pay back Jonathan is to sponsor the blow-up of crude oil drilling companies in Bayelsa and Rivers. Get some RPGs or SAMs (Rocket-Propelled Grenades, or Surface-to Air-Missiles), shoot some loaded missiles into the oil companies and immediately destroy their ability to operate; period! Doing this will cripple the country instantly; a very good way to bring down the thieves in Abuja, as the masses will return to the streets, from all parts of Nigeria. The truth is that Jonathan and his cabinet members and friends only care about stealing as much money as they can. So why should we continue to look-on as the country is being stolen from, when thousands of Nigerians are dying everyday from lack of basic things like food or medicines for common and treatable diseases? Let us begin for once, the real process of cleansing this country of thieving mediocres like Jonathan and his friends, so that our own children also stand a chance. Period.
SHAME ON GEJ
This is a clear case of ''a POT CALLING A KETTLE BLACK''. It's unfortunate GEJ has failed to recognize his own NUMEROUS problems, instead, he take interest in irrelevant issues such as this. If ''STONING'' has become a yardstick for measuring 'non-performance', then Jonathan has succeeded in telling the whole world that he is a TOTAL FAILURE. As mentioned in the write up, GEJ was embarrasingly stonned in Uganda during his visit, just last week, he was rejected by African leaders when he attempted to impose himself as the AU leader, having failed to realise that PDP or INEC machineries dont work outside the shores of Nigeria.. Back home in Bayelsa, his house was burnt down, confirming his total rejection by the generality of the people. I challenge Jonathan to show us just two of his acheivements while he was the governor of Bayelsa state, if there's any. I rest my case
Goodluck lied
The National Assembly appropriated 1 Trillion Naira for capital expenditure in the 2011 Budget Act and President Goodluck could only manage to implement 45% of that budget. Using WAEC and NECO standards, that's a P8 (one step below F9). He spent over 1.7 Trillion on subsidy instead of of the 300 Billion Naira approved by the National Assembly. Using the same standards, he has answered a question no one has asked. That is certainly F9. And he has the cheek to criticise another! Physician, heal thyself!!!
Doifie & Democracy?
I’m not sure Doifie understands the real meaning of democracy. It is a mind game that involves the manipulation of people and systems especially concerning how they reason and “act” or vote. How it is practiced is another matter. If his understanding of the practice of democracy now draws its meaning from the western world, I wonder where he has been or which democratic template he has been using for the last 4 years assuming he has been in government circles for the period. I am sure he knows the score with Nigerian democracy.One question for Doifie; If you were not considered for the privileged position you held in Sylva’s government just another man on the streets of Yenagoa looking forward to a future you can only imagine because you've lost all hope in your government, would you be supporting the vacated Sylva’s government today?
Unjustified Comparison
"Far more than Jonathan’s tenure, Sylva has performed given the challenges he faced;" With just 9 months of Jonathan as governor and over 4yrs of Sylva as governor, I find it difficult to understand what sort of comparison Doifie is making. If Jonathan achieved anything meaningful in those nine months as passively recognised by Doifie, it should be considered good as this is normally considered time for leadership to settle down to develop their strategy and get running. On the hotel, I am sure I once heard Sylva say it is not his priority, whatever he meant? This would have been not just an earner for the state but a job creator and a source of pride to Bayelsa state, just like Hotel Presidential was to Rivers state. It was money held up unproductively and depretiatively somewhere instead of gaining value. I guess it was not his project and by implicit deduction given a scaled down priority.
Statement Partly True
“But let us state that it was not the governor who was disgraced by the stoning. Instead, it was the president himself.”
If the governor did not feel disgraced by the stoning especially after being told it was for his non performance, I am left wondering if he cared about how the people felt. Jonathan and the PDP feeling embarrassed would not have been out of place but then would have been very angry at the reason they were made to go through that embarrassing expose. By the way if the national security agents were not there, I guess the state apparatus would have shot at and killed some Ijaws in the crowd like it happened in Uganda, the reason the people don’t like Museveni. Sounds like parallel systems between Yenagoa and Uganda? I am a bit surprised Jonathan was not accused also in this press statement of organising the jubilation in Yenagoa after the Sylva government was dismissed by the court.
Lost Perspective
“In addition, can we also say that the stoning of President Jonathan in May last year in Uganda was a global act of rejection?”
Perspective either lost its meaning in this statement or is being traded wrongly. Jonathan was stoned by a people for attending the swearing in of their president not liked by his (same) people while Sylva was stoned by his people who say they don’t like him. Jonathan was on national or diplomatic assignment and had little choice on the issue for reason of diplomacy or diplomatic relations. Very different I guess? Insinuating also that Jonathan is behind the stoning sounds very petty and pitiable in my opinion.
PDP
This party pdp has ruined our country. May God change it for us. It has made us poor and beggars to the extent that we have to dance to their ugly music. We are in serious problems. pls God I beg
"No one can stop you" - GEJ, do you have the fear of God?
It was not only belittling for GEJ to openly blame a state government for not wasting resources on an irrelevant project, but also embarrassing for the nation.
Bayelsa, just like any other state lacks good schools, good roads, good hospitals, unemployment pervades, no security and all the C-in-C could be unhappy about is/was the non-completion of a hotel.From the piece above, it's obvious the contractor is on the neck of GEJ having paid his due to him and in turn GEJ wants Sylvia to go ahead. GEJ is only interested in his pocket, not in the pple of Bayelsa.
Did you see Patience at the rally raising the hand of Dick(son). Contractor don pay, dem must play their part. Dick(son) only needs to complete the project, in ALL FOUR YEARS, if he made to Creek Haven.
Sylva and Jonathan are both rogues !!!
The difference between these two animals is like 6 and 12. Both can't point to any achievement. They are squabbling about building an hotel over a period of 12 years as achievement even though the state got Nbilions from the federation account; no mention of primary health care, hospitals, education, agriculture, alternative energy generation. Instead the trio of Alamesigha, Jonathan and Sylva's achievements are creating an army of scum bags like Deri, Ify-deranged, Asari Dokubo and Stanley Igwe; the future of the ijaw nation is very bleak !
Can what is on ground in Bayelsa justify the Nbillions Alamasigha, Jonathan and Sylva got from the federation account in the past 12 yrs? And yet some fools want to create 6 corrupt nations out of one corrupt nation ? They can't even run a state and yet Nigerians want GEJ to run a country; it's unfair on Jonathan. A man who was dull enough to marry an illiterate is expected to inspire Nigerians ? oops !!! I feel like throwing up !
Sylva and Jonathan are both rogues !!!
The difference between these two animals is like 6 and 12. Both can't point to any achievement. They are squabbling about building an hotel over a period of 12 years as achievement even though the state got Nbilions from the federation account; no mention of primary health care, hospitals, education, agriculture, alternative energy generation. Instead the trio of Alamesigha, Jonathan and Sylva's achievements are creating an army of scum bags like Deri, Ify-deranged, Asari Dokubo and Stanley Igwe; the future of the ijaw nation is very bleak !
Can what is on ground in Bayelsa justify the Nbillions Alamasigha, Jonathan and Sylva got from the federation account in the past 12 yrs? And yet some fools want to create 6 corrupt nations out of one corrupt nation ? They can't even run a state and yet Nigerians want GEJ to run a country; it's unfair on Jonathan. A man who was dull enough to marry an illiterate is expected to inspire Nigerians ? oops !!! I feel like throwing up !
Then u ar suppose to be dead
Then u ar suppose to be dead
Silva!!! u are On your own.
The same rigging hand that brought Ɣ☺ΰ in has pushed Ɣ☺ΰ out its a pity thay at your age Ɣ☺ΰ choose to be a stuge now he doesn't need Ɣ☺ΰ anymore and I believe Ɣ☺ΰ need the govenor sit badly well G̶̲̥̅Ơ̴̴̴̴͡ and contest from another party if Ɣ☺ΰ believe the pple will vote Ɣ☺ΰ in without rigging. A piece of advice 4 u į̸̸̨§ to keeP numb or else Efcc will be ur guest sooner than u think.
He who pays the Piper detates its tune
Instead of Ɣ☺ΰ silver to serve the people Ɣ☺ΰ choose to serve GEJ now. He does not need your service anymore as he simply used Ɣ☺ΰ. .Next time try to be by the people and victory will be urs Already Ɣ☺ΰ can't come out in another party cos Ɣ☺ΰ know Ɣ☺ΰ won't win.
Story, story, story.
Story, story, story. All you lots should improve the lives of your poeples. Too much ghetos in the land. All you Governors, senators, political office holders and the civil service are all corrupt to the marrows hence Nigeria is clogged up as a result. We are not where we are suposed to be in todays world and it hurts. Hooligans and small brains rulling the peoples.
This has nothing to do with
This has nothing to do with which party one contest on, the truth of the matter is nigerians need this break to understand how corrupt and vindictive the president is when you do not agree with his illegallities.
God has a way of bringing what is hidden in darkness to light. The president like his predecessors both civilians and military alike are heartless and have never cared for the nation, not ever and certainly not now by the present(Jonathan's) administration. That man Jonathan is very dirty indeed.
sylva is a disgrace-its time he is told to shut up
Yom Yom, nobody is afraid of Sylva in the Niger Delta. Sylva is not even in town. He left the country shortly after he was kicked out. All that the president said are true. The alleged hotel has not gone above the level at which Jonathan left it for aso rock. Its still the same. Yet hundreds of millions have been paid to outsiders for a job they did not perform. Jonathan has nothing to do with a drug addict and a trickster like Sylva. He spent the resources of the state, in his attempt to get rid of the president. His case is just like that of ribadu. Who was said to have investigated madam patience. If you have the facts bring them on period. The people of Nembe do not want to have anything to do with his evil thoughts for the state. Sylva is a sham! This is the time for Bayelsans to take control of their state-regardless of the foreign money bags luring dickson with their filthy blood stained lucri from sylva in that state.
jonathan- Sylva
so in whose village is the contractor for Tower Hotels building a house and for who? What is the value of the house? Please tell us so we know what makes projects cost in Nigeria ten times their cost elsewhere. We demand to know please.

