AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. PRESIDENT.

"I wish you a very happy Independence. I thank you"

This was the concluding part of the Nigeria President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's Independence Day Presidential Speech. These two sentences appeal to me as they paint a mockery picture in my mind(don't know about yours).

'mr. president' does not wear the shoe,so, definitely, he knows not where it hurts. Is it the families of the victims that were slaughtered on: "31st December 2010 Abuja attack; 29th May 2011 northern Nigeria Bombings; 16th June 2011 Abuja Police Headquarter bombing; 26th June 2011 bombing attack on a beer garden in Maiduguri (the origin of Boko Haram sect), leaving 25 dead and 12 injured; 10th July 2011 bombing at the All Christian Fellowship Church in Suleja, Niger State; 12th August 2011 Prominent Muslim Cleric that was shot dead by Boko Haram; 26th Aug 2011 Abuja bombing; 4th November 2011 Damaturu attacks; 25th December 2011 bombings at St. Theresa Catholic Church; 5-6th January 2012 January Nigeria attacks; 20th January 2012 Kano bombings; 8th February 2012 Suicidal bombing at the army Headquarters in Kaduna; 16th February warden that was killed during the prison break staged in Central Nigeria where 119 inmates were released; 3rd June 2012 15 church-goers that were killed and several injured in the Church bombing in Bauchi State which Boko Haram claimed responsibility through spokesperson Abu Qaqa; 17th June 2012 Suicidal bombing which striked three churches in Kaduna State with at least 50 people killed; 17th June 2012 130 bodies found in Plateau presumed to have been killed by members of the sect; 3rd October 2012 massacre leaving 24-46 massacred in the town of Mubi in Nigeria during a night-time raid; 18th March 2013 Kano bus Bombing where 22 were killed and 65 injured; 7th May 2013 where at least 55 were killed and 105 inmates were freed in coordinated attacks on army barracks, a prison and Police Post in Barma town; 6th July Yobe State School Shooting where 42 people, mostly students were killed in the Northeast Nigeria or the recent 29th September 2013 College Of Agriculture where 40 students were murdered in cold blood" that should be happy?

mr. president,it is true that when one does not pass through the furnace that others are passing through(even right now), it is therefore fallacious to claim you know 'all is not well' when you don't even have a taste of it. Your assumption of all-is-not-well may be "an NCE holder in Mathematics and Biology from the Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Port Harcourt and B.Ed holder in Biology and Psychology from the prestigious University of Port Harcourt who now shelters her head in the ROCK after making the waves with the 'TOP presidential blunders' so far", but sir,it is far more than that because our Universities have been under locks and keys for months and all you could utter when asked in an Interview on Sunday evening 29th September 2013 between the hours of 7 and 9pm was that "I see no reason why State Universities too should join the strike" and hiding under the torn umbrella of "the strike has political undertones."

'you' were hyping your government of establishing more Federal Universities,but sir, how many of the said Universities are among the world's top 3000 leading Universities? Not even the best in Nigeria. And in that same Interview, I vividly heard you say "Education is what makes me the Jonathan you see today."

'sir' if "Education makes you the Jonathan(President)", then why is it that you are depriving us(Nigerian Students) the taste of the Four-syllabic word 'EDUCATION'? Or is your answer to this question what I am thinking? That the High-class Citizens never want the Low-Class ones to reach their status. If this be true, then you aint worthy of the Mandate of Leadership entrusted in your care. LET US GO BACK TO SCHOOL....

Now,to your second sentence in the concluding part of your speech -- I THANK YOU. What are we being thanked for 'sir'? Is it for the endurance trek we forcefully have been subjected to, where all that comes to our lips at food-to-mouth upheaval is "E GO BETTER!"-- a household excerpt.

'mr. president',we don taya. E no fit dey go like this make we dey look you like television. If work taya you, abeg go resign make another person wey fit do am climb power. Hummm...se na person wey paper dey talk say want contest 2015 go resign?

That is what I do say. There is no map to guide our steps. Things are just being done out of will.

I am signing out sir,I just pray God opens your eyes to the reality of the Power in your disposition, so that your actions will spell boom and not doom for this country and you will stop defining progress by "the 4th republic is the most successful of the other three" when Boko Haram are still striking.

GBOOOOOOMMMMM...see am oooo, him don fear!
GOD BLESS THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.
GOD BLESS NIGERIANS.
GOD BLESS ME.
Ijadunola Richard.