{"id":50788,"date":"2016-06-29T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=50788"},"modified":"2016-06-29T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T12:15:16","slug":"open-epistle-ebele-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/open-epistle-ebele-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Epistle to Ebele Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, though I was one of those who made the<\/p>\n<p>system hot for you when you were in office through endless articles and<br \/>\ncriticisms on national dailies and online blogs, however, I regret to say<br \/>\nthat just within 13 months that you relinquished the insignia of power,<br \/>\nthe prices of essential commodities have gone out of the reach of common<br \/>\npeople.<\/p>\n<p>Things are so bad that Nigerians now steal pot of soup on fire. Nigeria is<br \/>\nnow drifting towards the ABACHA era. Nigerians have watched and still<br \/>\nwatching in aghast as things suddenly gone awry. No essential basic<br \/>\namenity is working in Nigeria as I write.<\/p>\n<p>Your successors have refused to tar a kilometer of road since you left and<br \/>\nthose roads that you constructed, rehabilitated and reconstructed have<br \/>\nbeen abandoned. The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has been<br \/>\ntechnically scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, things were not rosy under you but today, the situation is<br \/>\nworst and pathetic. Dear Ebele, I want to concur with your critics that<br \/>\nyou presided over a festival of corruption but common people never had it<br \/>\nbad this way when you were in Abuja. We thought the economy was bad then<br \/>\nbut today it is hemorrhaging. The only thing working presently in Nigeria<br \/>\nis the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission&#8217;s massive probe of your<br \/>\nparty&#8217;s CAMPAIGN FUNDS.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the purpose of writing you this epistle is just to inform you<br \/>\nthat the Kaduna-Abuja Rail that you constructed and the train you bought<br \/>\nwhich WE called Locomotive product then will be commissioned in few days<br \/>\ntime by President Buhari for the use of Nigerian people.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ebele, history will be kind to you for being the only President<br \/>\nNigeria ever had that has no skyscraper anywhere on the world. While your<br \/>\npredecessor, Olusegun Obasanjo and his Deputy, Atiku Abubakar built<br \/>\nprivate Universities for themselves and their families, you built 12 and 6<br \/>\nPublic Universities and Polytechnics respectively for the use of<br \/>\nNigerians. Thousands of Nigerians got gainful employments through the<br \/>\naforementioned institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The National Minimum wage that you gave to Nigerians is now being taking<br \/>\naway by those who took power from you. Prices of petrol, cooking gas and<br \/>\nkerosene are no more within the reach of common people. Yam, pepper,<br \/>\nonion, rice, beans, gaari and even corn are gradually becoming the food of<br \/>\nthe ELITES in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Teaching Hospitals that you built and upgraded are now at the<br \/>\nmercy of no drugs. Medical personnels are now working without motivation.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s strike everyday in the Health sector. The situation of power supply<br \/>\nin Nigeria has gone from bad to poor. Massive Jobs lost now pervade the<br \/>\norganized private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurs are now wailing as businesses drained down. The automobile<br \/>\nmotor plants that you facilitated to Nigeria are now returning back to<br \/>\nwhen you brought them from.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly and most Unfortunately, the media industry that connived with your<br \/>\nopponents to send you out of office and still in conviviality with the<br \/>\nELITES to the detriment of the common people.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ebele, please note that you are not a saint but time and events have<br \/>\nproved that majority of your critics are empty barrel. They are noise<br \/>\nmakers. Time has showed that they are worst than you.<\/p>\n<p>The rights to speech and expression that we enjoyed under you has now<br \/>\nmoved from rights to privileges. As local and raw your wife, Patience was,<br \/>\nshe never called a sitting governor a MAD DOG. Let me just stop here sir.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m Adeyemi ADELEYE writing from Aafin Compound, Ilogbo-Ekiti, Ekiti State.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, though I was one of those who made the system hot for you when you were in office through endless articles and criticisms on national dailies&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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