Why is our outgoing president talking like this? Is
he afraid or there is something wrong with his six years in office?
Yesterday May 27th 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan begged the
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, not to single out his administration in any
probe he may want to carry out after his inauguration on Friday.
You remember during their campaign, his wife said
her husband must win the 2015 presidential election, because she was not ready
to feed her husband in prison?
She also urged people to vote for her husband
instead of Buhari, aside they want to go to prison.
Good luck Jonathan said all those advising Buhari
to probe his administration must also advise him to extend his probe beyond his
regime or else, the probe will be seen as a witch-hunt. OMG!
Jonathan made his position known at the valedictory
session of the Federal Executive Council which he presided over at the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
He also said those calling for his administration’s
probe should add that the probe should be extended to the way oil wells and
fields were allocated in the past.
A former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus
Danjuma, had over the weekend joined the growing number of persons calling on
Buhari to probe the Jonathan administration.
Jonathan said, “Some people are even calling for
the probe of this government. I agree that in Nigeria, there are a number of
things that we will probe; very many things. Why didn’t probe the past
administration?
He said “Even debts owed by states and this nation
from 1960 up to this time. They are saying it is Jonathan’s administration that
is owing all the debts.
“I believe that anybody calling for probe must
ensure that these probes are extended beyond the Jonathan administration,
otherwise to me, it will be a witch-hunt. If you are very sincere, then it is
not just the Jonathan’s administration that should be probed.
“A number of things have gone wrong and we have
done our best to fix them. The Attorney General is aware of the massive
judgement debts, if we aggregate all of them, it is about $1bn. How did we come
to this kind of huge judgement debts? These issues should be probed.
“How do you allocate our oil wells, oil fields,
marginal wells and others? Do we follow our laws? All these should be probed. I
believe all these and many more areas should be looked at.”
Jonathan said regardless of what critics might say
about his administration, he and his team had done well under a difficult
situation.
He advised those who criticise him to endeavour to
compare his administration’s performance with those of the administrations
before him on a sector-by-sector basis.
The President listed some of the daunting
challenges faced by his administration to include the prolonged industrial
action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, terror attacks and the
ongoing fuel scarcity.
Jonathan described the ongoing fuel scarcity as an
act of sabotage.
The president claimed that those who felt they must
bring his government to its knees were the ones behind the scarcity.
He wondered why marketers would choose to go on
strike a few days to the end of his administration.
“Even this last fuel scarcity, to me one can
clearly say it was an act of sabotage. This government has few days to go, that
is definitely not the time you expect massive strikes, using marketers and
unions. Unions asking for increase in salaries at a time oil prices have
dropped and volumes have dropped,” he said.
The President made it clear that he had not
dissolved his cabinet as all ministers were expected to attend the inauguration
dinner on Thursday in their official capacity.
Earlier, the Vice-President, Namadi Sambo, had
thanked Jonathan for finding him worthy to be his running mate in 2011 and
2015. He said he did not at any time lobby the President for the position.
He promised to remain a member of the Jonathan
family and his ambassador anywhere he found himself.
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister
of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), said the administration had impacted on
the lives of millions of Nigerians.
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