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October 29, 2017<\/p>\n
Taiwo Adisa, Nigeria Tribune<\/p>\n
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has said Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, lied against his government by claiming that the last administration released the sum of N100 billion and another $295 million in cash within two weeks of the 2015 general election.<\/p>\n
Jonathan, in a statement on his behalf by his Special Assistant, New Media, RenoOmokri indicated that the lies by the vice President were becoming characteristic.<\/p>\n
The statement indicated that the claims credited to Osinbajo, while speaking in Lagos on Friday, at a \u201cGreater Nigeria Pastors Conference,\u201d that President Jonathan released the huge sums weeks before the election, was false.<\/p>\n
\u201cI make bold to say that the Vice President has once again taken to his characteristic habit of lying,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians may recall that only last week, Vice President Osinbajo was in Anambra State, where he lied that the present administration had paid $2 billion for the second Niger Bridge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had cause to expose that lie and forced the Presidency to issue a \u2018clarification\u2019. The money released was 2 billion Naira and it came from the Sovereign Wealth Fund set up by the Jonathan administration which the APC resisted and challenged in court.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will also be recalled that in February 2016, the Vice President again lied when he claimed that both the Jonathan and Yar\u2019Adua government did not build a single road. This fact was easily disproved when even members of this administration, including Osinbajo\u2019s boss, President Buhari, began commissioning projects, including roads built by the Jonathan administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians will recall that the Jonathan administration rebuilt the Benin-Ore portions of the Benin-Lagos road,\u201d Vom-Manchok road, the Kano-Zaria Road Bridge (named after late Emir Ado Bayero) and many more.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn this recent allegation by the Vice-President, not only has the Vice President again lied, he is doing so to divert attention from the Maina scandal in which the administration in which he serves, by the testimony of the Maina family, invited Abdulrasheed Maina, the infamous alleged pension thief, back into the country, reinstated him, promoted him and deployed him as Director of Human Resources in the ministry of Internal affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they were found out, the Presidency resorted to its favourite past time of blame game by preposterously accusing former President Jonathan of somehow magically being the brain behind Maina\u2019s return. This is even as the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had already revealed that he \u201cacted in the public\u2019s interest\u201d in initiating the process for Maina\u2019s return.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is also the $25 billion Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation scam which is the biggest scam ever in the history of Nigeria since 1914 to date.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally, Nigerians want to know the truth about the Babachir Lawal probe which has been concluded and handed over to the president many months ago but of which no action has been taken.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians want to hear the truth about these scandals and not tired lies about looted funds that keep being recycled without proof.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to remind the Vice President that he is a Pastor and therefore conversant with the biblical admonition in Revelations 21:8 that \u201call liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement further indicated: \u201cIt is not too late for the Vice President to turn a new leaf and begin to apologize to Nigerians for the three million jobs a year he and his boss promised, but ended up losing 4.5 million jobs in their first two years according to the Nigerian Bureau of statistics.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Vice President Osinbajo is looking for who to blame for the present sorry state of the Nigerian economy, he should buy a mirror.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rushed implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy of the Jonathan administration, the constant negative comments about our economy by the President while on foreign trips, the inconsistent foreign exchange policies of the government, the advice to the World Bank to focus only on Northern Nigeria, the openly pro Northern Agenda which gives promotion and appointments to persons of Northern extraction irrespective of merit or experience are to blame, not Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
October 29, 2017 Taiwo Adisa, Nigeria Tribune Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has said Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, lied against his government by claiming that the last administration released the sum of N100 billion and another $295 million in cash within two weeks of the 2015 general election. Jonathan, in a statement on his behalf by his Special […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n