POLITICS IN NIGERIA The presidency on Sunday condemned the attack on the persons and offices of President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice, Namadi Sambo, by a former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasir El-rufai. Speaking as guest of the week on a radio programmed on Liberty FM radio station based in Kaduna on Saturday, the one-time Director-General of Bureau for Public Enterprise, alleged that the President was shielding the country’s oil thieves. He also accused the President of playing ethic and religious politics in the build-up to the 2015 general elections. His words: “Unfortunately, Jonathan’s political handlers thought that if they introduce religion they will be able to divide the North and take the Christian part of the North to vote for Jonathan. And if they introduce ethnicity, they will get the whole of the South. That’s their winning strategy and now they are surprised that after dividing the country they are finding it difficult to get the cooperation of everyone. “If we all decided to follow ethnicity, Jonathan cannot even win election outside Bayelsa State because apart from Bayelsa no any other place where the Ijaws are not a minority in Nigeria. So when people like Edwin Clark, Jonathan play the ethnic and religious cards, I just look at them because its not going to work. The moment anyone results to ethnicity and religion, its because he doesn’t have a better ground. El-rufai, also criticised the Sambo during the interview. “We’ve not had leadership in Kaduna State since Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi left office as Governor of Kaduna State,” he said. “I know Governor Makarfi performed well in the state in terms of peace, infrastructures put in place. Since he left, Namadi Sambo as a Governor was a disaster. He wasted the resources of the state and the state acquired debt that late Governor Yakowa complained to me about before his death” But the presidency reacting through the Presidential Adviser on Media, Rueben Abati, labeled El-rufai a liar and an individual fond of double-speak. Abati in a statement said the former minister “has a history of saying the truth privately and the lie publicly”, adding that “Nigerians should consequently take his words with not just a pinch of salt, but a spoonful because a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:39:38 +0000
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