Jonathan Seeks Support For Obama

As Americans go to the polls today to elect their lawmakers in one of the most  contentious mid-term elections in decades, Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan,  has called on Americans to support their president, Barack Obama.

President Jonathan did not specifically mention todayâ€s mid-term elections in the  U.S. but compared election time in America with Nigeria, saying that some  politicians are creating fear in the minds of voters to resist change.

He said: “I was told that election times like this are moments when desperate  individuals do desperate and sometime despicable things to make you-the  voters-afraid.

“In other climes, they tried to make Americans afraid of Obama because they want to  stop a change whose time has come.”

Republicans are highly favoured to defeat Obamaâ€s Democrats in the election and win  the majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and possibly the Senate,  according to latest polls.

In the message entitled: ”We Must Bid Farewell To Do or Die Elections,” the  president called on Nigerians to get ready for propaganda and lies peddled by  desperate politicians, especially presidential aspirants.

“The leadership of any nation is a highly coveted position and more so when that  nation is Nigeria, the largest black nation on earth and so richly endowed with  human and natural resources.

“As such, as the competition as to who becomes President in 2011 gathers momentum,  it is to be expected that some persons will naturally begin to be dangerously  anxious to the extent of hitting some of us below the belt.

“Expectedly, the large following has also made me the target of lies, smear  campaigns and innuendos,” Jonathan said.

The president said that only God and Nigerians will decide who leads the country in  2011. “The Presidency of Nigeria is a national and treasured asset and only God and  the people must decide who leads the project of protecting and advancing her  interest.”

He called on Nigerians to disregard such falsehood as simple propaganda.

“When you hear or read falsehoods that I am using untoward means to curry the favour  of PDP delegates who have not even been elected or identified or that I am funding  my campaign from the Federal Government purse and such other stories that enter  the fertile minds of the mischievous, you must know that their desperation is  getting to fever pitch levels and their project of self-agenda is ready to anchor on  the harbour of the-more-of-the same.”

—Simon Ateba

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