Paid social media ‘activists’ must stop insulting Jonathan – PDP Youth Frontier leader

The National Coordinator, Peoples’ Democratic Party Youth Frontier, PDPYF, Austin Usman, has asked Nigerians to desist from insulting the office and person of President Goodluck Jonathan. According to him, the seat of the President is the most exalted throne in the federation attained by the will of God, hence the need to respect its occupier. “We are not asking everybody to love our leader; we are aware of freedom of expression but there is a limit to such. “But for some disgruntled persons, especially opposition leaders to hire youths to engage Mr President on social media, calling him names like ‘imbecile, clueless, fool, stupid’ is unacceptable. “This is no longer politics but outright insult on the person of Mr. President and downgrading the potency of number one office in Nigeria. No matter what, you don’t have to rain insults to make your point across to your audience”, he stressed. The PDP Youth Frontier, therefore, advised those insulting Mr. President and others leaders to stop, saying he is the country’s number one symbol of authority and must be respected by all, irrespective of their faith, tribe, philosophy and political affiliation Continuing, Usman accused a former FCT minister, Nasir El Rufai, of insulting leaders and instigating others to do same. “Before you insult Mr. President, let us think twice and reflect back on the antecedent of the so called saint and Mr. perfect! El’rufai has eventually condemned everybody. “In 2011, El’rufai told the whole world how 3 billion US Dollars disappeared under him from PTDF, how 53 suit case was smuggled into the country by Buhari ADC. “Also in 2011, he told the whole world that Jonathan is a clean and honest man and that Nigerians should support Jonathan. “He called Yar’adua a smoker, a drunk and a man of self low esteem. Now, the same individual believes Jonathan is an incompetent and corrupt man”, he added. Advising the Nigerian youths not to emulate the elder ones, the youth leader said, “We are youths today, we are the leaders of tomorrow, we shouldn’t allow men of yesterday to destroy our tomorrow. Most of them fanning the ember of discord and unrest have different houses abroad as many of their children are not even in this country”. Usman concluded by calling on all Nigerians to support President Jonathan in transforming the nation.