VON DG blasts
Jonathan, asks ex-president to apologise to Nigerians over comments on
corruption
The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu has lambasted ex-president Goodluck Jonathan
- Jonathan had on
Saturday August 12, said that his government did well despite that he was
unable to plug loopholes in the fight against corruption
- Okechukwu however, said that rather than plugged loopholes of
corruption, Jonathan opened it wide
The Director General
of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has asked former President Goodluck
Jonathan to apologise to Nigerians over the comments he made on the handling of
the corruption war during his tenure.
Daily Trust reports
that former President Jonathan was quoted on Saturday August 12, to have said
that “though we didn’t completely plug the loopholes in the
fight against corruption, but we did well” at the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP)’s Special Non-elective Convention held at Abuja
NAIJ.com gathered that Okechukwu, who spoke on Sunday August
13 in Abuja, in reaction to the former president’s remarks, dismissed the
statement credited to the ex-president.
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“My own sincere assessment is that our dear ex-president rather than
plugged loopholes of corruption opened it wide. He should apologize to
Nigerians whom he betrayed for being less than transparent.
"I was outraged when I heard him proclaim that the PDP will return
to power in 2019 because of the hunger and poverty ravaging the country."
The VON DG, reiterated
that the economy could have collapsed if President Muhammadu Buhari didn't come
to the rescue.
He added that
Jonathan relied on “voodoo economic records” which rated the
Nigerian economy higher than that of the industrialised South African economy.
He said going by the
financial records, the ex-president and his party “railroaded” Nigerians into “abject poverty, food
insecurity and deficit infrastructure” via “planlessness and squandermania”.
Part of the statement
also read, “He (Jonathan) propelled his preferred Minister, Mrs
Deziani Alison Madueke and other cronies to loot dry our dear countrymen.
"Example, later day revelations are showing how $80 million was
used by Mrs Madueke’s ally to purchase a luxury yacht, money which could have
been utilized to build the best hospital in Yenogoa.
"Or is he not reminding us of the humongous foreign exchange used
in buying choice estates locally and abroad?
“In sum, the biggest headache of Buhari administration is the huge local
and foreign debt amassed by the PDP's 16 years misrule. On bail-out fund and
Paris Fund refund, Buhari has spent over N1 trillion on salary and pension
arrears. He has also paid over $7 billion on obligations to International Oil
Companies (IOC) with the little he got.”
Okechukwu said if the
Jonathan government had executed the award of $23 billion contract for the
er*ection of three Greenfield refineries promised to located in Bayelsa, Kogi
and Lagos, it could have saved Nigeria over $200 billion expended on
importation of refined petroleum products till date.
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said that with huge oil revenue under his regime, Jonathan “stood a good chance of fixing the Niger Delta, but
failed woefully”, advising him to keep quiet, especially now that the hunger
and poverty he allegedly imposed “are getting too harsh”.
“I regret demonstrating on Abuja streets in 2010, for him to be made an
executive president, with others as a member of the defunct Save Nigeria
Group,” said Okechukwu.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that
former president, Goodluck Jonathan that there were instances of corruption
during his administration and admitted that he failed to plug all the
loopholes.
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