Nigerians Attack Jonathan Over Silence On Fuel Crisis

Nigerians attack the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan over silence due to fuel shortage, which is currently crippling the country.

The president seems to be re-enacting the same behaviour considered in large parts to be the main reason why he lost the March 28 presidential poll.

Jonathan failed to publicly address on the problem of the lack of petroleum products that is plaguing the nation to show that he empathises with them.

It should be recalled that president show the same silence with other problems in Nigeria.

When more than 200 girls were abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents in the northeastern town of Chibok, President Goodluck Jonathan was by the next day dancing away at a campaign event in Kano.

He was also silent when terrorists reportedly massacred 2000 people in Baga, Borno state.

President Jonathan rushed out publicly in disapproval of the terrorist attack on a newspaper firm in France when he failed to make a remark on the Baga massacre.

With these experiences, some Nigerians have already determined that the outgoing president is merely being his usual self by choosing to keep mum when he should have addressed Nigeria to soothe frayed nerves on the current energy crisis ravaging the nation and instill hope on the populace.

Read what they said on social media pages below:

These Nigerians express dissatisfaction that the president has had course to speak in public within the last couple of days, without using those opportunities to at least utter a word on why Nigerians have been made to greatly hunger for fuel and electricity and what hope lies ahead.

To one Musa Daniel, who was seen by the Daily Post disagreeing the matter in a news stand, what has happened to the country and its citizens “lends credence to the perception that the President is really clueless; He cannot speak on the matter because he himself has no understanding of the situation. What do you expect from a President who surrendered the management of the economy to a minister for who he devised a strange portfolio as the coordinating minister for the economy?” he asked.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s fuel marketers say they have touched an agreement with the government that should soon see the end of the crippling fuel crisis.

The wholesalers had stopped distributing fuel after supposing the government owed them $1bn.

The shortage has had an impact on the country’s aviation and banking sectors, universities, public schools are also shutting.