Shocker! Kolade blasts Jonathan: Your Leadership Is A Failure
It
looks like it's only those eating from President Goodluck Jonathan that
are praising him. A former head of SURE-P, Dr. Christopher Kolade, on
Thursday condemned Jonathan for not showing the right leadership in the
manner he had been handling his responsibilities as the nation’s
president.
He made reference to Jonathan’s decision to honour a
political rally in Kano shortly after a bombing that killed several
Nigerians, saying the best he could have done was “to postpone the
political event.”
For choosing to continue with the programme, he
said, the President did not demonstrate that he was sensitive to the
pains of the people he is leading.
He said those who said the
country “had never been this good” were lying, and that at over 80 years
he could tell that the country had a robust history.
The
respected statesman condemn all those singing Jonathan's praises,
including TAN, and insisted that, “Nigeria was, at every other time,
better than now.”
He spoke at the sixth Christopher Kolade
Symposium organised by the Nigeria Leadership Initiative, an
organisation he was a pioneer patron. He lamented the drift in
leadership quality.
“If we get to a point when we do not care how
the country is led, we have lost hope. The country is where it is today
because some people sacrificed. Unfortunately, beyond stealing, our
leaders are not ready to sacrifice anything,” he said.
Kolade
said he took up a responsibility to lead the Subsidy Re-investment and
Empowerment Programme to demonstrate his love for the country. Rejecting
the appointment, he said, would have amounted to wishing the initiative
failure.
He said he rejected allowance offer because he was
financially stable. The second reason, according to him, was to enable
him to quit when he noticed it was not going to succeed without the
hassle of “waiting till end of the month to collect allowance.”
He said most Nigerians are unhappy with the leadership style of the Jonathan government.
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