Press statement from Ekiti State Governor...
Mr Ayodele Fayose has urged former President,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to stop attacking the immediate past
President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, saying; “Dr Goodluck Jonathan is no
longer the president of Nigeria, he should be allowed to live a
private life devoid of mudslinging from elder statesmen like Chief
Obasanjo.”
Governor Fayose said he was miffed that former President Obasanjo
could choose the 11th Convocation Lecture of Benson Idahosa University
(BIU) Benin, Edo State to say that “performance of Jonathan while in
office will hunt the people of the South-South region for a long time
to come.”
In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Monday by his Special Assistant
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor
said the people of the South South had already demonstrated their
approval of Jonathan’s performance while in office by voting
overwhelmingly for him on March 28 despite the gang-up orchestrated by
Chief Obasanjo and his allies.
“Most importantly, Jonathan’s performance as a democrat has been
widely acknowledged locally and internationally, particularly by
President Mohammadu Buhari, who on many occasions acknowledged the
role he (Jonathan) played in midwifing a peaceful and successful
transition programme, thereby averting the feared crisis in the
country.
“This is in contrast to Baba Obasanjo, who tried third term when he
was about concluding his constitutional two terms. And who knows
whether he would have tried fourth term if he had succeeded with his
third term agenda?
“The reality is, assuming but not conceding that Jonathan performed
below expectation, democratic governance that he established in
Nigeria is more important than any other performance that Obasanjo
alluded to,” the governor said.
Speaking further, Governor Fayose urged Obasanjo to stop running other
Nigerians down, saying; “We are all stakeholders in the country
Nigeria. It is wrong for any Nigerian no matter how highly placed to
go about carrying himself around as the only honest and lover of the
country.”
The governor said; “since Baba Obasanjo has openly destroyed his
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) membership card, he is free to go about
seeking relevance in the All Progressives Congress (APC) without
running anyone down.”
He said people living in glass houses should avoid throwing stones,
adding that Nigerians know those involved in the Halliburton scandal
and people who are yet to be cleared of their alleged complicity in a
scam like Halliburton lacked moral rights to brand other people as
corrupt.
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