"Jonathan Is A ‘Superior’ Performer" - APC Criticize President

Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has criticized Goodluck Jonathan over his performance.

According to him, President should understand that rather than comparing himself with past administrations, he should be focusing on how well he has delivered on his electioneering campaign promises, while also managing the unintended or contrived issues that now endanger his presidency.

He noted that the President’s claim of superior performance over his predecessors has enlarged his enemies’ camp beyond that of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who has engaged Jonathan in recent times.

"All other former leaders and their loyalists are now aware that Dr. Jonathan is a ‘superior’ performer! His inclusion of governments outside Nigeria further exposes him to ridicule as development indices indicate that many African countries, many of them less endowed, rank much higher than Nigeria in the development continuum," the APC spokesman said.

"Whether it is in per capital income, life expectancy, maternal mortality, access to education, potable water, housing, employment, security, agriculture, power, etc, which are all used to measure a country’s Human Development Index, countries like Gabon, Angola, Algeria, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Malawi, Egypt, Libya, Mauritius, and South Africa are heads and shoulders above Nigeria."

The official also added that it is the first time in the history of the country when there are so many Nigerians languishing in foreign jail houses, most of them innocently fleeing from poverty at home.

Thus, he blames the government for spending a lot of money on the 2012 Olympic Games that did not "yield a medal of any colour."

Mohammed also lamented over the parlous state of the roads and the situation in the education sector, in which "Nigerian degrees are now worth slightly more than the papers on which they are printed."