You lied – Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed insinuations by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that his government ‘shared’ N150 billion two weeks to the 2015 general elections. Instead, Jonathan, through his Media Adviser, Reno Omokiri, challenged the Vice President to show proof of the alleged financial impropriety as captured by PATRICK ANDREW
Must show proof
“If Professor Osinbajo has proof that former President Jonathan did so, then we challenge him to publish his proof. He is a professor of law and ought to know that he who alleges must prove.
“Again, it is a lie from the pit of hell that the Jonathan administration spent only N14 billion on agriculture and N153 billion on infrastructure in three years as alleged by the fallacious Osinbajo.

Agricultural and infrastructural sectors
“The Jonathan administration budgeted and spent over $10 billion on infrastructure in the five years between May 6, 2010 and May 29, 2015.
“The single most expensive and valuable project built in Nigeria in the last 20 years is the $1.8 billion Abuja-Kaduna 187 kilometres super-fast railway that enables Nigerians work in Abuja and live in Kaduna.
“Also, former President Jonathan revived Railways in five of the six geo-political zones and restored direct rail services from Lagos to Kano, Port Harcourt to Maiduguri and Makurdi to Gombe.
“This project was built and completed by the Jonathan administration. Is the Vice President aware of this?”
“In contrast, the Buhari administration, which in less than three years, has borrowed more money than the PDP borrowed in 16 years, cannot point to even one major project they have started and completed. Both President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo keep accusing the Jonathan administration of being corrupt and claim that they run an anti corruption government.
“If this is true, how come Nigeria made her best ever improvement in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index under former President Jonathan in 2014 when we moved 8 places forward from 144 to 136 and why have we made our worst ever retrogression in the Corruption Perception Index under President Buhari, moving 12 places backward from 136 to 148 in 2018?

Tissues of lies
“Again, my attention has been drawn to rehashed lies in the media by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, against the person of former President Jonathan.
“It is sad that the Vice President has again surrendered his lips to Satan to be used to spread slander and lies. Nigerians may recall that lying is the most consistent achievement of Professor Osinbajo’s almost three years as Vice President.
“The truth is that Vice President Osinbajo continues to make these discredited comments because he is a man promoted above his competence,” Omokri alleged.

Anti-corruption fight of the Buhari administration
“The truth is that Osinbajo continues to make these discredited comments because he is a man promoted above his competency.
“He was never a deputy governor or governor or an ambassador or a minister. His highest portfolio before becoming Vice President was that of a commissioner in Lagos State. “No wonder he was referred to as ‘ordinary commissioner’ by a prominent member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and leading figure in this current administration,” Omokiri added.

President Buhari should call Osinbajo to order
“If President Buhari will not intervene and rein in his Vice President by call lying Pastor Osinbajo to order, I respectfully call on Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to remember the biblical admonition in Revelations 21:8 that “all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone” and step in to call Pastor Osinbajo to order,” he said.

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