Some ministers who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan have warned President Muhammadu Buhari to give the former president his “due respect.”
The former ministers said they had observed that the Buhari administration and members of the All Progressives Congress had been condemning, ridiculing and undermining the efforts of the Jonathan administration.
Jonathan’s ministers said both the President and his party had also been rubbishing the integrity of the individual members of the past administration.
A former Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, said this on Sunday in a statement on behalf of other ministers who served under Jonathan.
But the Presidency, while reacting to the Jonathan’s minsters’ statement, on Sunday said Buhari’s war against corruption was not negotiable.
Suleiman said the efforts of the Buhari government had been to portray all members of the Jonathan administration “as corrupt and irresponsible, in an orchestrated and vicious trial by the media,” which he said had created “a lynch mentality that discredits our honest contributions to the growth and development of our beloved nation.”
He said while he and his colleagues believed that each administration had the right to chart its own path, the Kwara State-born former university lecturer said the alleged vilification of the Jonathan administration was ill-intentioned.
The Buhari administration has alleged several fraudulent practices against Jonatha’s ministers, including a recent allegation that the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, illegally took $6.9m from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to fund the bogus purchase of three mobile stages for Jonathan’s public appearances.
The Suleiman statement partly read, “We, the ministers who served under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, have watched with increasing alarm and concern the concerted effort by the Buhari administration and members of the APC to condemn, ridicule and undermine the efforts of that administration, in addition to impugning the integrity of its individual members.
“While we concede that every administration has the right to chart its own path as it deems fit, we nevertheless consider the vilification of the Jonathan administration, to be ill-intentioned, unduly partisan, and in bad faith.
“We are proud to have served Nigeria and we boldly affirm that we did so diligently and to the best of our abilities. The improvements that have been noticed today in the power sector, in national security and in social services and other sectors did not occur overnight.
He listed some of Jonathan's achievements in office and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to build on these achievements and also challenged Buhari to be fair and non-partisan in his anti-corruption crusade.
-Punch
what are they crying out for?Every 'dog' has it day!
If it means prosecuting Former President Jonathan to fish out all the politicians who have milked Nigeria's treasury dry,then so be it!
This is my two cents,please say yours without insulting anyone.
If probing starts with Jonathans regime then its witch hunting.It should be extended to when we had our democracy.
ReplyDeleteStella i dont even understand u again ooo. So if its gej, its ok but if its fashola then na witchunt. Issorai
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DeleteRadio without battery!
Thank you for keeping it real!...
DeleteWell said Tuscany! Leave Stella to be busy getting one angry.
DeleteUnto what? They should please leave this man to concentrate on his work
ReplyDeleteThe Complaints are jobless.
ReplyDeleteThey have a lot of time on their hand.
Even Jonathan himself is quite .
He knows that nothing will come out of all these noise.
*Complainants
DeleteEvery mallam with his kettle Abeg. I no follow them chop.
ReplyDeleteProsecuting who? Buhahahahahaha, nothing will happen
ReplyDeleteThis is all semantics. What this Ministers' Otimkpu is saying is that the corrupt practices of the past administration should not be put out for public consumption, while they politicians work out their plea bargains behind closed doors. When this is done, they refund some change to EFCC, who returns a fraction of it to the treasury for the incumbent ones to loot. The next Govt comes in and cries 'fowl' and the cycle of doom continues.
ReplyDeleteI won't even SMH cos headache is real.
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DeleteSHARONNA
I'm attracted to your intellect.
Deletewhen you see a dullard you will know one. APC always condemning, always seeing wrong things and not right things. Do their own, they will complain. Jona has left you guys and is on another level, so APC do the needful and surpass his achievement if you can.
ReplyDeletei agree with you wholeheartedly SDK let it even extend to people like Amaechi (your boo) sef.
ReplyDeleteIs the past administration the only and ever existed administration? Witch hunting in the making.
ReplyDeleteWhy are these men disturbing themselves over APC Government that behaves like Chelsea fans?
ReplyDeletea.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
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Well them enter jail them go stop all this noise making shah..... Bugars....
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For three months now, we ve been reading of probes without result. No strategies to actualize their manifestos and better our lives. APC is so directionless it makes me weep
ReplyDeletePDP destroyed a country for 16 years and you want APC to fix it all in three months. Dream on.
ReplyDeletewell Stella u re trying for the masses....
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