President
Goodluck Jonathan has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of
deceitfully manipulating facts and figures to impugn his credibility,
vowing that he would not for any reason mortgage a bright future for the
country.
The President, in his response to the December 2, 2013
letter to him from the former president, accused his one time political
benefactor of hypocrisy, asserting that Obasanjo was rather guilty of
several of the allegations raised.
Dr. Jonathan in debunking the
allegations of having failed in maintaining security, reminded Obasanjo
that the Boko Haram insurgency started under his watch in 2002 and that
the first major case of kidnapping for money was also in 2006 during
Obasanjo’s stewardship.
President
Jonathan also challenged Obasanjo to swear with the bible if he
believed in the allegation that the administration was training snipers
to trail political opponents, just as he said that retractions by
Central Bank governor, Lamido Sanusi have debunked the allegation of
squandering oil receipts.
Responding to the allegation of
corruption leveled against the present administration, Dr. Jonathan
poked at Obasanjo citing the Halliburton and Siemens scandals which
happened under his brief, and the mockery of his military administration
by his townsman, the music legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. He thus
challenged Obasanjo to cite verifiable cases of corruption against the
present administration.
Dr. Jonathan also denied the allegations
of betraying the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), charging that it was
certainly not him that made the PDP to lose Obasanjo’s home state,
Ogun State to the opposition in 2011.
President Jonathan who in the
letter acknowledged Obasanjo’s role in his political enthronement and
called him baba five times, nevertheless said he was forced to respond
openly based on what he described as Obasanjo’s legendary role in
pulling down all his successors since he was Head of State in the 70s .
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