President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday denied claims by
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Former Governor of Lagos state that he
had offered him a VP Slot in an Interim Government
arrangement. Jonathan said there was no truth in the claim
by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,
Jonathan, who spoke with State House correspondents in
Abuja through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity,
Dr. Reuben Abati, described Tinubu’s claim as absurd and
ridiculous.
Tinubu had, in a statement by his media office on Thursday,
claimed that the recent attacks on his person were because
he rejected the offer by Jonathan to serve as the Vice
President in an ING.
He claimed that having refused the offer, the President was
looking for ways to take him out either by killing him or
getting him arrested based on trumped up charges.
But Abati insisted that the position of Jonathan had
remained that the idea of an ING is treasonable.
He said the President had made it clear that he had neither
proposed the idea at any forum nor discussed it with
anybody.
He added that as a democratically elected President,
Jonathan’s ambition could never be to head an ING under
whatever circumstances.
The presidential spokesman said Jonathan was going into
the March 28 presidential election with the conviction that
he had performed well and majority of Nigerians would vote
for him massively.
He explained that the President therefore has no reason
whatsoever to support such an unconstitutional proposition
as ING which would amount to assault on democratic
principles.
He said, “If you de-construct the statement that purportedly
emanated from the office of Asiwaju Tinubu, you will see
again the absurd nature of it.
“The absolutely ridiculous nature of it in the sense that
given the configuration of Nigeria, it is not likely, totally
impossible to have an ING arrangement in which you will
have a southerner as the President and then another
southerner as Vice President.
“It is absurd. It is not something that is likely to work given
the nature of our politics.
“But the Tinubu camp, putting out that statement, were so
much in a hurry to engage in their usual game of deceiving
the public of propagandaism of the current electoral
process, that the emptiness, the hollowness, the
shallowness of their proposition escaped them.”
Abati appealed to Nigerians to dismiss Tinubu’s claim as
“another gimmick coming from a desperate political group
seeing that defeat is staring them in the face.”
He said Nigerians might witness greater desperation from
the opposition’s camp as the nation gets closer to the
general elections.
“But our appeal to Nigerians is that this country is greater
than everyone’s ambition and at the end of the day what is
important is Nigeria.
“And those who seem determined to pull down this country
with lies, with black information, they are the enemies of
this country and do not deserve to be given the opportunity
to occupy, to enjoy opportunities that they do not deserve,”
Abati concluded. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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