Washington D.C. — The United States of America (USA) has offered to assist Nigeria hold a free and fair election, and also expressed support for President Goodluck Jonathan to run as a candidate next year.
The support, however, comes with a condition - that the President is "prepared to hold accurate, credible and transparent national voters' registration exercise".
The thinking within the administration is that a credible voters' registration exercise will remove one of the key arguments to his candidacy for next year's poll. "If voters are registered and allowed to cast their votes in a free and fair polls, it does not matter that the President is a candidate," a top State Department official said.
The administration is also pleased with the decisions taken by Jonathan since he assumed power, including how he handled the power vacuum created by the late President Umaru Yar'Adua and his choice of deputy.
In an apparent warning to Jonathan's presidency next year, Washington described the process through which he picked a deputy as "mature, consultative and unifying". The White House said President Jonathan's style of inclusive government was what the country needs to confront the enormous challenges facing her.
"President Barack Obama has reached out to President Jonathan to express his support for his efforts to build the country after the unfortunate death of President Yar'Adua," a top administration official said. The official raised the possibility of Obama visiting Nigeria next year if it carries out a "peaceful election that reflects the will of the Nigerian people".
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if Democracy we adopted from the whites is no longer useful in nigeria it is better we do away with it and adopt something else . Democracy is supposed to be government of the people, for the people, now it is government of american government for nigerian people. abeg we reject this interference. please
So now, the US is meddling. Wow! How convenient? In the run up to the 2007 general election, when the then US administration were vilifying OBJs so called 3rd Term Agenda, ignoring the fact that it was we, ordinary Nigerians that pleaded for OBJs reforms geared towards fighting corruption and introducing novel econometric models to continue until we germinate a credible successor, most of these loud mouths now shouting US meddling, were then rejoicing in the US myopic crystal ball that Nigeria would break up by 2015 unless power goes back to the same Northern cabal that ruined the nation for 40 years. Now that we have a credible govt in the offing, the corrupt elements that prefer the status-quo have the temerity to shout foul when they have already scored their own goal against their own credibility. We saw how they have turned reformers into pariahs (OBJ, Ribadu) how can we not see thru your shell-gamers like Atiku - the sticky-fingered $40M money-launderer, IBB the mail-bomber of Dele Giwa, Danjuma the Terrorist Dont Run or we Quit. Get-out-of-here, you whiners your judgment days are pending.
" ... Northern cabal that ruined the nation for 40 years. .."
What an idiot!
Chokora, calling people names is not a denial of the fact that you just repeated back to me like a Parrot as you are fond of doing. Perhaps you are too dull that I have to spell the facts for you - obviously you are not a Nigerian to know the antecedent.
kaparah or whatever you call your self , you are not a patroitic nigerian, you are a selfish and self centered and self seeking Nigeria, what made you think that we have got credible leaders? because jonathan favours your selfish self. let me tell you something , the fact that jonathan comes from Niger delta and suits you does not qualify him as a credible leader, infact i do not see any difference between him and obasanjo who was brought out from prison to assume the post of the president ,jonathan talks of being lucky but obasanjo who came out of prison to sit as the president, first as a military head and then as a civilian head was by far luckier than him , but when lucky is not gotten fairly that luck has to be probbed. cabals instituted Obasanjo and obasanjo brought jonathan. so why do you think or what makes you think that they are credible, their is no credibility in something wrong. both obasanjo and jonathan did not win any elections because of our faulty electoral system. when we spoke about reforms we did not mean this wuruwuru and magomago currently taking place to install another magomago president, what is the difference of a thief, a liar, and a killer? you can answer the question your self kaparah.
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