Adams Oshiomhole, immediate past governor of Edo
state, says former president Goodluck Jonathan was
not competent enough to continue with the leadership
of the country in 2015.

He said the competence expected from the Jonathan
administration never materialised, and that even the
most basic things were not adequately done.

In a conversation with The Interview , Oshiomhole
quoted Jonathan as admitting that he did not do much
for the south-south region.

“If you follow my commentary two, three years into his
government, it was clear that even the most basic
things were not properly done. Competence that was
expected was not there,” Oshiomhole said.

“The level of fairness was not there. And even if you
were to talk about the sentiment of servicing the geo-
political zones, the south-south had nothing to boast
of.

“Even the road to Yenagoa didn’t show that a
president came from that area. I have travelled across
Nigeria, so we in the south cannot say this is our
dividend.

“He himself agreed that he didn’t do much for the
south-south. Actually, that was not the real question.

The real question was: where did he do?

“Also, I remember asking the chief of army staff the
day the president wanted to postpone the election
(from February 14), I said, ‘Two weeks ago, you said
the Armed Forces was ready for the election. Now, you
are saying Boko Haram is controlling how many local
governments. You PDP took over 774 local
governments, now you have ceded territories to Boko
Haram.’

“So I was convinced and I arrived at a conclusion that
Nigeria was in great danger if we didn’t effect a change
in the political leadership. That was how we parted
ways.

“I remember he, Jonathan, called me about four days
to the election over an advert I did. In the advert, I
showed the pictures of the immigration recruitment
they purported to have done in a stadium.

“That was the height of incompetence – that the
federal government would defraud the unemployed
people, ask them to pay some fees to attract a federal
job.”

Regarding the performance of the incumbent
Muhammadu Buhari administration, Oshiomhole said
that despite the obvious challenges, “the country has
regained some level of self-confidence”.

TheCable