Probe Us All: Jonathan Advised Buhari

President Goodluck Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sent a message to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, not to probe his administration alone should he consider that after his inauguration on Friday.

He said he learnt a lot of people are advising Buhari to probe his administration and must also advise him to extend his probe beyond his regime or else, the probe will be seen as a witch-hunt.

Speaking at the valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council, which he presided over at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Jonathan made his position known that nothing scares him about probing, that he only wish it could cut across every sections and past administrations.

The oil mogul and former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, had over the weekend joined the growing number of persons calling for Jonathan administartion to be probed by the incoming Buhari’s 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  should be extended including the way oil wells and fields were allocated in the past’’.

“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 who described the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country as an act of sabotage. The president expressed concern that those who felt they must bring his government to its knees and send his administration out on a bad note were the ones behind the scarcity.

 “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.