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| Goodluck Jonathan |
- Challenges Osinbajo to prove his allegations
Former President Goodluck Jonathan
wednesday asked the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of
God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to call the Vice President, Prof.
Yemi Osinbajo, to order for peddling falsehood against his person.
Jonathan added that even after Osinbajo
had been called upon repeatedly“to respect his supposed pastoral calling
and stop his nasty habit of lying, he refuses to heed these calls and
continues to spew falsehood.”
These were contained in a
statement the GEJ Media Office issued yesterday, pointing out unfounded
allegations the vice president had made at different times against the
person of the former president.
Last Tuesday, Osinbajo had at The
Platform, a programme organised by the Covenant Christian Centre in
Lagos alleged that three unnamed persons stole $3 billion (N1 trillion)
in the Jonathan administration.
On March 19, also, Osinbajo alleged that
the Jonathan administration shared N150 billion two weeks to the 2015
elections while it spent a paltry N14 billion on agriculture in 2014;
N15 billion on transportation and only N153 billion on infrastructure in
three years.
But in a statement issued by his media
office wednesday, Jonathan called Pastor Adeboye to caution Osinbajo to
stop peddling falsehood against his person.
If Osinbajo fails to heed this advice,
the former president urged the cleric “to remember that the RCCG ordains
its pastors not to lie but to spread the word of God, “asking if “this
is what Vice President Osinbajo is doing?”
Jonathan recalled that Osinbajo falsely alleged that he took N100 billion from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in cash to his personal house in Abuja.
When challenged to provide proof of his
fallacious claims, the former president disclosed that the vice
president hid behind ‘sources’ and began to feed stories from anonymous
officials to the media.
This time around, according to him,
Osinbajo alleged that three persons working in his government looted $3
billion from the country’s resources without providing proofs to back
his allegation against his administration.
He, thus, noted that the vice president
“is a liar, forgetting or perhaps not caring that the devil is the
father of all liars. I challenge him once again to prove me wrong by
mentioning those three people and providing proof that they stole the
amounts allegedly stolen.
“It is sad that at a time when the Buhari administration should be telling Nigerians what they have achieved after three years, they continue to blame and point fingers. The reason for this is because neither Buhari nor Osinbajo can point to any project that they have initiated, started and completed in three years,” he explained.
Jonathan noted that the people of
Nigeria voted for Buhari and Osinbajo because they said subsidy was a
fraud and would be stopped; that fuel would be sold at 40 per litre, and
that fuel scarcity would end.
After three years, Jonathan said the
Buhari administration “is paying more subsidy than former President
Jonathan ever paid at 1.4 trillion annually. Fuel price was increased
from 87 to 145 per litre, Fuel scarcity is worse.
“Faced with these facts, a desperate
Buhari administration, wanting to be re-elected and knowing that it
cannot run on its record, has devised a plan to distract attention from
its woeful record of failure by making constant false allegations on my
person.”
He lamented that the Buhari
administration “has yet to tell Nigerians what happened to the $25
billion that was awarded in contracts without due process by the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).”
He sought to know how “Maina was
returned, reinstated, double-promoted and given armed guards or why the
indicted Executive Secretary of Nigerian Health Insurance Scheme was
reinstated despite a clear case of corruption or when Babachir Lawal
would be charged.
“Instead, they continue to throw mud at
those who have achieved what they have not achieved. If Osinbajo cannot
stop his habit of lying, I hereby call on Pastor Adeboye to withdraw his
pastorate before he brings the church of Christ into disrepute.”
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