Fellow Nigerians Please Stop Insulting Jonathan On Twitter!

Source: Punch

The Presidency has urged Nigerians to stop making use of the new media to hurl abuses at President Goodluck Jonathan and other political leaders in the new year.

It said Nigerians, especially the youths, who are in the habit of expressing “bitterness” as well as hurling “insults” at the President should have a change of attitude in 2014.

The Presidency, through the Special Assistant to the President on New Media, Reno Omokri, stated on Twitter that if the bitter insults hurled by some Nigerians at Jonathan and other political leaders online in 2013 didn’t better their lot, they should consider not taking them into 2014.

Omokri stated that no matter how those who attack the President online intensify their efforts, “men cannot undo what God has done.”

He added that the continued expression of bitterness by some Nigerians online may go a long way in limiting their appreciation of the “possible” giant strides of the President in 2014.

He stated, “Circumstances don’t change unless behaviour changes. If bitterness and insults didn’t change your situation in 2013, don’t take them to 2014!

“In 2014, shouldn’t we use Twitter as a vehicle for exchanging ideas that focus our attention on how to better each other rather than insults?

“The circumstances surrounding his rise to power are proof that God put President Jonathan where he is and men cannot undo what God has done.

“Insults are available to everyone. They are overlooked by those who want to rise but embraced by those who want to pull the risers down.

“Ideas lead to cooperation and expand our sense of what is possible. Insults lead to isolation, thus limiting our sense of what is possible.”