The many promises of Jonathan His campaign promises are legion, but does Jonathan have the capacity to deliver?

Daily Trust

28 May 2011

The many promises of Jonathan His campaign promises are legion, but does Jonathan have the capacity to deliver?

Hussain J. Ibrahim

As he prepares to be sworn in tomorrow as president, Goodluck Jonathan has the full weight of Nigerians’ expectations on his shoulders. While he was president in the last one year, he has largely dodged answering to such expectations thanks to the successfully well orchestrated campaign by his handlers that the year he had spent was largely spent completing someone else’s tenure (late President Yar’adua) whom he succeeded after his demise. Even though Jonathan was a vice-president under the Yar’adua administration his new team was at pains to explain that his non-stellar performance in office in the one year he succeeded President Yar’adua was because the programmes he inherited were not his programmes. But now that he has won a fresh mandate of four years as president of the country, even Jonathan himself knows he has no excuses this time.