Plot to discredit Jonathan uncovered

Plot to discredit the Jonathan administration has been uncovered with three separate influential groups said to be behind the agenda whose implementation is already underway.
Findings by Sunday Tribune revealed that the plan is being financially backed by three groups, with each collaborating to ensure a discredited federal administration before the 2015 general elections.
The first group was allegedly linked to some loyalists of the late President Umar Yar‘Adua who were said to be bitter about the fall- out of the succession plan.
The second group was reported to be affiliated with some retired generals of northern extraction who are said to be miffed by the refusal of President Jonathan to make expected concessions to them as a placatory gesture.
The third, Sunday Tribune findings showed, centred around an amorphous group  from across the federation who are dissatisfied with the emerging economic and fiscal programme of the administration.
Sunday Tribune reliably gathered that the implementation of the agenda was already afoot with the planned removal of fuel subsidy said to be the strategic  take-off point for a full blown onslaught on the administration.
Specific aspects of the agenda, Sunday Tribune learnt, included driving a wedge of discord within the federal administration by pitching the president against his deputy and by pitching the ministers against the coordinating minister for economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala.
Other areas of the agenda included deliberate misinformation about federal policies and programmes, arousing tribal suspicion through allegations of South-South domination and the portrayal of the Jonathan presidency as anti-people and a puppet of both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The expected goal of the plot was said to be the total discrediting of the president and his team that “they will be in a very weak position before a nation that would be clamouring for a change as a prelude to the 2015 poll.”
A specific aspect of the plot, the creation of rift between the president and the vice president, was said to be on-going with two recent reports and incidents which portrayed Vice President Namadi Sambo as being in cold war with his boss over assignment of roles and the 2015 succession game plan.
Sunday Tribune was told that the incident at the North West zonal meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party was a major attack on the unity of the presidency as the Vice President unknowingly walked into a zonal meeting where political  traps were already laid for him.
With branded campaign vehicles and posters of 2015 presidential ambition, the schemers, it was alleged, had hoped to portray the Vice President as disloyal and therefore create a wedge and conflict in the heart of the presidency.
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