The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described President Goodluck Jonathan's first year in office as a monument to insecurity and scandals of historic proportions, a far cry from the transformation he promised Nigerians at his inauguration.
In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said President Jonathan frittered away the goodwill of a nation so quickly after his inauguration, as a result of gross incompetence and waffling leadership that shocked the citizenry.
"A President who asked Nigerians to dream again succeeded in turning their dreams into nightmares. Simply put, Nigerians are worse off today than they were when President Jonathan
assumed office on May 29th 2011, and the country under his watch has become more divided today than at any other time since the civil war of 1967 to 1970.
"In sports parlance, President Jonathan has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and left his compatriots forlorn and transmogrified, instead of being transformed," it said.
ACN said that to be fair, one year is too short a time to judge an administration for failing to fully upgrade or put in place new infrastructure, more so in a country where everything from roads to hospitals, schools and public utilities have been left to decay by successive administrations.
Vanguard Nigeria