From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati said yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan was too honest to engage in underhand tactics to realise his ambition, even as he said the Office of the President is too important for Jonathan to behave in a cowardly manner by sponsoring faceless groups to sell his candidature ahead of 2015 elections.
The re-election campaign posters of President Jonathan hit Abuja at dawn on New Year Day as uproar trailed the development. Already, the Presidency has denied its involvement, describing those behind the posters as detractors and people “doing their own thing”. This was coming as the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) urged the President to call those pasting the posters to order while the Jigawa State House of Assembly asked Governor Sule Lamido to run for Presidency.
The umbrella body of Igbo socio-cultural organizations, Ohanaeze, said the posters were plots to destabilise the polity. Other groups said the incident was an act of desperation by the faceless group to heat up the polity. Abati told State House correspondents yesterday that President Jonathan as a honest man, has said he will focus on the job at hand and make his intention known in 2014. “Our position remains that President Jonathan has not launched any campaign for re-election in 2015. He has not asked anybody to go and paste posters around Abuja. Whoever those people are, they are acting on their own. They are not President Jonathan’s agents.They are on to their own mischief.
“The second leg is that the President has been consistent with the issue of 2015. In the last presidential media chat, he said he was not talking about 2015 as at this moment. He had been given assignment by the people which is to see through the Transformation Agenda, to ensure the different changes he has promised in life and society. That is what he remains committed to. “Those who are bent to distract this government has brought out the posters.
I repeat that President Jonathan knows nothing about them. The President of Nigeria has an office that is so important that he cannot behave in a cowardly manner. This is a man who is honest and have reputation of being honest”, Abati said. Asked if security agencies are on the trail of the sponsors, he said: “The security agencies have their jobs cut out for them.
If they feel there is anything that is likely to disturb the polity, that is likely to affect the integrity of the state or they feel something has happened and they need information, that needs to be investigated, then of course, they will do their job.
“They don’t even need to wait for presidential directive. It is part of their normal duty to find out what is happening in the environment particularly if what has happened is a matter of public interest”, he noted. Asked why the President has not ordered the removal of the posters if truly he knew nothing about them, Abati said, “the President does not need to give any order. People whose job it is to ensure that nothing goes wrong within the Nigerian state will do their job.
They will make their own assessment; they will do their own investigations. If they feel that there is any threat whatsoever to public peace, to rule of law and order, they will make sure that that is not allowed. “What I am telling you is that the President has not launched any campaign. What all of these show you is that the contestation for power in Nigeria is quite a complex one and people will go to any length to push their own agenda.
This is not coming from the President. When the President takes a position in terms of his own personal involvement or otherwise with regards to the 2015 elections, you can be sure he will come out to Nigerians and say this is where he stands on this matter the same way he did on previous occasions. But the President is not going to adopt this kind of tactics that you see on display”, Abati said.
Too honest but our resources ar wasting away……who is fooling who…….
Too honest but our resources ar wasting away……who is fooling who……anyway i don’t blem u cos tats where u get ur daily bread.
Why are we so desperate for power? God is watching,when He steps in we will all know. It is not a crime for Jonathan to be in power this time,those fighting him may be fighting God’s agenda. Mischief makers remember, you are mere mortals, you are limited in what you can do.
Abati was very honest when he was with Guardian news paper, but now he has join the group of praise worshipers, I understand that you are paid to do that job, but I think you have to do it with the integrity you brought from Guardian.
It is only the north that is power hungry, they can do anything for power, they can even kill the whole south for power,even they can kill them mama and papa for power.FOOLS.
Posters OO or no posters, GEJ has failed , so if he like let him pest the poster from here to Jericho it will not change the people,s opinion about him.
However, he still have the opportunity to write his name in gold, fix our power , these excuses of generating this and generating that while everyday we still in darkness is not what we bargain for.
Fix our roads, stop looting our money with your friends as if there is no tomorrow, those looted please return them back.
increase our security so that human blood will have value in Nigeria.
If you do this, you do not need posters to get our votes but if not. Only Abati and fat bom bom Okupe with all those crooks in your government and also Papa Edwin Clark CANNOT make you president for the second time.
Let also warn you if you do know, rigging cannot be tolerated again in Nigeria so if Mr Fix it think he can fix the next election , honestly we will fix his head 8 feat under. A word is enough for the wise.
YES LET HIM BE HONEST INDEED,AFTER ALL HE KNOWS THAT WE WILL NEVER ACCEPT HIM AGAIN EVEN ANYONE BY HIS PARTY PDP,MR ABATI WHO ARE A WICKED LIAR,HE CAN NOT ORDER THE REMOVAL OF THE POSTERS YOU CLAIM HE KNEW NOTING ABOUT,YOU ABATI SAID JONATHAN IS HONEST,YET IT WAS BY THE SAME TIME LAST HE WAKE UP FROM SLEEP TO INCREASE FUEL THEREBY PUT THE WHOLE NATION IN A SERIOUS CONFUSION,MAYBE HE WANTED TO USE THIS POSTERS TO REPEAT HIS LAST YEAR CRISIS,A MAN OF CRISIS,BY CRISIS HE BECOME GOVERNOR AS HIS BOSS WAS FORCED OUT,BY CRISIS HE WAS CHOSEN TO BE VICE,BY CRISIS HE WAS MADE ACTING PRESIDENT AND BY ANOTHER CRISIS HE WAS DECLARED WINNER OF AN ELECTION HE NEVER WON,SINCE THAT DAY IT HAVE BEEN ONE CRISIS TO ANOTHER,I SEE THIS YEAR 2013 BEEN WORST,
Wonders shall never end. Can you imagine? Even GEJ’s opponents are helping to post his posters, advertise and encouraging him for 2015. Its a welcome development. As the northern elements and Bokoharam have been disrupting Gej’s programmes, he certainly needs more time to finish what he started. After all, Gej is not the origin of our complicated problems in this fraud called nigeria. Gej, please concentrate and do more.
Well, lets look at his most recent record on fibbing:
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President Jonathan Lies Again, TCN Faults Power Generation Claims – PREMIUM TIMES
Posted: January 4, 2013 – 16:03
By PREMIUM TIMES
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has said that at no time has the country’s electricity generation capacity reached a peak of 5,000 megawatts, MW.
This contradicts President Goodluck Jonathan’s claim during his third Presidential media chat last November that the combined average power generation capacity from all the power plants in the country moved from less than 3,000 MW in 2007 to a new peak capacity above 5,000 MW.
The President had listed the 5,000MW power generation capacity as one of his administration’s major achievements under the Power Sector Reform agenda.
“Power is one area Nigerians appreciate we are moving. We are yet to get 24 hours of light in our cities, but you would agree with me the difference is clear,” the president told the panel of interviewers, which consisted of Muhammed Abubakar of Nigerian Television Authority, NTA; Martins Oloja of the Guardian; Ikedi Isighuzor of Vanguard and Gbemi Olujobi of the National Mirror.
“We moved, in 2007, from about a little below 3,000 MW production average.
“Now, we are generating more than 5,000MW (of electricity).
“But because of weak transmission infrastructure, we cannot evacuate,” the president said.
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Since it is unlikely it was Boko Haram that pasted the posters to discredit the President, may be we should, while accepting Abati’s surrender plea on behalf of the President, agree that Ghosts have now entered Abuja. In that case he may need the services of some seers stationed in Abuja . He might as well create the ministry of the invisible to checkmate this their devilish operation. No doubt they took the Presidents pictures to their coven and magically invoked it all over the city trying to drag the good and innocent name of our smiling and soft spoken president to the mud. It is truly the work of Mr President’s political enemies. So, let us forgive him for this ignorance and pray for Mr President for wisdom to rid himself of these witches in his cabinet working against his transformation agenda. Jan 2013-May 2015 is long enough for Mr President to prepare for a celebrated exit come 2015. May God frustrate the tokens of all these liars trying to deceive, distract and lure Mr President to infamous exit.
Whether they like it or not, the president will remain focused and deliver dividends of democracy to Nigerians more than any other president ever produced in Nigeria. I know their aim is to stop him from achieving this but God will silence them all.
We all know those behind the pasting of posters. They are the self styled born to rule people. With their devilish style of doing things, ofcourse they’ve been killing because of power theý feel belong to them alone. We should ignore the posters and delibrate on very important issues.
mumu people who alway ascrib the weakness of GEJ to bokoharam lets ask mumus who increase the fue price? who say there should be no light? who failed to implement minimum wage?who inrease the light bill?to mention but few these mumus iyamiris always ascribes GEJ weakness to bokoharam forgotten that they are equaly saying there is no president hence bk is in control or mr Gej is no competent that is the message. MuMu wawa banza iyamiris
GEJ is a paradox