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Saturday 2 May 2015

12 Prominent Nigerian Leaders Yet To Congratulate President-Elect, GMB

Please make corrections to my list below:
1. Wole Soyinka
Nigeria's only laureate and a major critic of the
Jonathan administration, especially the handling of
the Rivers state crisis that nearly swept off his
favoured son, Amaechi and the handling of the
Chibok girls saga. His opinions are highly sort in
Nigeria and beyond and many believe that his
disdain for the PDP helped swayed south-west
( epecially the young and intellectuals) votes
against President GEJ.
2. Enerst Shonekan
Former head of the Interim Government of
Nigeria in 1993. He is believed to be a supporter of
incumbent President GEJ and has never missed
any high government function since Jonathan
became President.
3. Mike Adenuga
Chairman of telecommunication outfit Globacom
and one of Nigeria's richest and out-of-public
private citizens. He is a friend of the GEJ
government and as such was appointed as Co-
Chairman by Jonathan in 2012 to head the flood
committee.
4. South-south PDP Governors
They are governors Liyel Imoke( Cross River),
Godswill Akpabio( Akwa Ibom), Seriake Dickson
( Bayelsa state), Emmanuel Uduaghan( Delta state)
and govenor-elect Nyesom Wike( Rivers state -
considered to be a nightmare to incumbent
governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the APC). They
are major financiers and gave Jonathan a bloc-
vote during the 2011 and 2015 presidential
elections. Rivers state gave GEJ over 1.4million
votes to emerge highest from the region.
5. South-east PDP Governors
Abia - TA Orji, Ebonyi - M Elechi, Enugu - S
Chime; they tried to replicate the 2011 magic but I
guess something happened along the line.
Nonetheless, GEJ won convincingly in the zone
but could not win nationally in 2015 as was in
2011. The highest GEJ secured from this zone was
500,000+ in Enugu state.
6. Alex Ekwueme
Former Nigerian vice president under Shehu
Shagari and a prominent member of those who
formed the PDP in 1998. He complained
sometime ago of being maginalized in the mani-
stream PDP by the Jonathan administration
before GEJ visited his state for the PDP presidential
campaign.
7. Shehu Shagari
With a waning strength of 80yrs+, former
president shagari is an ardent supporter of the
PDP from the then OBJ days to Yar'Adua. He
benefited to the extent of making his son a
minister and then a Deputy Governor in
2007-2015. President Jonathan is believed to have
so much respect for this elderly elder statesman
and recent joined former leaders to cut his
birthday cake in Sokoto.
8. Ibrahim Babangida
Nicknamed the 'Nigerian Maradona.' He ousted
the President-elect, GMB and took over power in
1985 and later went on to annul the 1993
presidential election won by late MKO Abiola.
Many believe that Buhari still begrudges IBB for
his ouster and not allowing him to bury his late
mum. He once sort for the PDP ticket in 2011 with
JEG along side Atiku and former NSA and current
defence minister, Aliyu Gusau. He is still a PDP
card-carrying member and preferred GEJ to GMB
in the 2015 elections.
10. Innocent Chukwuma
Anambra born entrepreneur cum billionaire is fine
protagonist of the Jonathan administration. He is a
major beneficiary of the current President's auto
policy on home-made vehicles and
manufacturing in Nigeria. Innocent is the first
indegineous vehicle manufacturing businessman
in the country. He manufactures SUVs, pick-up
trucks as well as patrol vans for the Nigerian
police force and the federal road safety corps. His
company was said to have donate about 15 SUVs
to the 2015 PDP presidential campaign.
11. South-west Obas
These monarchs are seen as very powerful in the
region and they were seen to be more amenable
to the Jonathan candidature than Buhari's and
more than one occasion openly supported GEJ
for the 2015 elections. GEJ was said to have held
meeting with all the power-broking monarchs in
the region before the elections.
12. Northern states PDP governors
These are the governors of Kaduna, Kebbi,
Jigawa, Bauchi, Niger, Adamawa, Katsina, Benue,
Plateau, Taraba, Kogi and Gombe states. Of all
these governors none was able to win even a
LGA for the PDP save for Taraba, Plateau,
Kaduna, Adamawa despite all the Billions given
them during the presidential elections.
Why they have refused to congratulate the
President-Elect on his victory at the 2015 polls is
yet unknown but I believe that will be left for
historian, researchers and scholars to unravel.

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