A*L*T*E*R*C*A*T*I*O*N*S! Abati Confirms Jonathan’s Kindergarten Presidency – APC The All Progressive Congress (APC) said the response of Presidential spokesman Dr Rueben Abati is a confirmation of the description that President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential is akin to a kindergarten. Interim national chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande had in an interview labelled the Jonathan’s presidency as kindergarten. Interim national publicity secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement that Chief Akande merely told the truth by his characterization of the Jonathan presidency and wonder if truth is not a defence to libel. While saying that there was nothing strange or wrong in criticising a democratically-elected president as he is neither an Imperial President, a Monarchy nor an Emperor, Mohammed said nothing confirmed Chief Akande’s assertion that Jonathan is running a kindergarten presidency than the crude manner it responded to the frank but constructive criticism by the APC interim national chairman. He added that the presidency is an under-achieving one, always eager to celebrate tokenism, using questionable statistics, saying, “As the presidency was composing its empty response to the serious issues raised by our highly-respected Chairman, the African Development Bank was saying in its annual report (African Economic Outlook), quoted by the local media on Sunday, that the proportion of people (Nigerians) living below the national poverty line has worsened from 65.5 per cent in 1996 to 69.0 per cent in 2010, most of those years under the PDP and the last four under President Jonathan. “What therefore is there to celebrate in a presidency under which power generation has fallen to 2,500MW? What is there to celebrate in a presidency that has only given Nigerians widespread insecurity, unemployment, dilapidated infrastructure, oil theft and unbridled corruption. Of what use is the touted 6 percent increase in the GDP when over 40 percent of our youth are unemployed?” Mohammed also described as a figment of the presidency’s imagination the claim of a feud between its leaders, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), saying the PDP and the presidency have been peddling lies over a phantom feud because they could not fathom how the leadership of the APC could put national interest above personal considerations. Source: Nigerian Best Forum - See more at: nigerianbestforum/blog/abati-confirms-jonathans-kindergarten-presidency-apc/#sthash.EgMAUO0Z.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 02:13:09 +0000
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