Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday dismissed claims
credited to Borno State Governor, Kashim Shetima, as parochial and jaundiced.
Shettima
on Thursday accused the ex-President of bad governance and poor choices.
But
Jonathan in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, strongly
debunked the allegations of poor governance and highlighted his key
achievements and described them as matched.
He
challenged the governor to come clean over the roles he played in the abduction
of the Chibok girls, stressing that it goes beyond the dismissive claim that
“Jonathan thought I kidnapped Chibok girls.
The statement said: “He should be able to tell us if it was
Jonathan’s poor choices that led the governor to expose students of Government
Girls Secondary School in Chibok to avoidable danger, in total disregard of
Federal Government’s directive to the governors in the three states most
affected by Boko Haram to relocate their students writing the West African
School Certificate Examinations to safe zones.”
The
ex- President also dismissed the book titled: “On a Platter of Gold- How
Jonathan won and lost Nigeria,” written by former Minister of Sports, Mallam
Bolaji Abdullahi, as sour grapes and full of lies and gossip.
He
added: “As a man who had never seen anything good in our administration on
account of party and other differences, it has remained our considered view
that in a democracy, Governor Kashim Shettima and others like him are entitled
to their opinion, no matter how jaundiced.
“However,
it is a sad commentary on the character of some of our politicians that they go
to any length to make spurious statements, in pursuit of the sad narrative to
remain politically correct. We cannot be deceived by his crocodile tears
and patronizing claim that ‘Jonathan is essentially a decent man’ which is a
ploy he deployed to justify his false allegation of a lost glory.”
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