The Media Office of former
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the APC government of President
Muhammadu Buhari as a failure.
It said this while accusing the
federal government and the Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media, Femi
Adesina of peddling falsehood over claims that Nigerians did not protest the
hike in fuel price by the Buhari government because they trusted the
government.
In his response to Adesina and
the Nigerian government, over the claims, Jonathan’s Media Office said fear,
not trust was why Nigerians did not protest en masse against fuel price hike
under Buhari.
“When Femi Adesina says that it
is because of trust that Nigerians did not rise up against the Buhari
administration when it increased the pump price of petrol from N87 to N145, he
betrays a deep ignorance and arrogance.
“First of all, it was not
Nigerians that rose up again the Jonathan administration when that government
increased the price of petrol on January 1, 2012. It was actually members of
the All Progressive Congress who sponsored the protests,” said the statement
signed by Reno Omokri on behalf of the Jonathan Media Office.
The statement said Nigerians had
not so soon forgotten how Malam Nasir El-Rufai led other chieftains of the
opposition to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos, where they
attracted crowds by inviting top musicians to perform and by giving out free
food and drinks.
It continued: “On December 15,
2015, the Nigerian Army, under President Muhammadu Buhari’s command, killed 347
unarmed Shiite men, women, children and infants and buried them in a mass grave
as revealed by the panel of inquiry instituted by the Kaduna State government.
“The excuse given by the military
for this massacre was that the Shiites had blocked a road during one of their
procession and this allegedly affected a trip by the chief of army staff. After
killing his followers and destroying their place of worship, Sheikh Ibrahim Zak
Zaky, the spiritual leader of the Nigerian Shiite community, was illegally and
unconstitutionally detained and has not been seen or heard of in public since December
15, 2015.
“So when the Buhari
administration increased the pump price of petrol, Nigerians wisely reasoned
that if the Buhari administration can kill 347 unarmed Shiite men, women,
children and infants for blocking a road, it would be suicidal to give them an
opportunity to do the same thing to them on a wider scale,” said the statement
from the Jonathan Media Office.
Under the Buhari administration,
it said human life had become so cheap that the military and security services
routinely kill innocent Nigerians be it Shiites, peaceful demonstrators or IDPs
at the Rann IDP Camp.
“To say Nigerians trust an
administration that publicly boasted that it would not tell Nigerians how much
of their own money the President spent in treating himself in London when the
State House Clinic cannot boast of ordinary Panadol (by his own wife’s testimony)
is to speak a lie.
“Nigerians can judge the nature
of the man whose number one campaign promise was that “no Nigerian Public
official should receive medical treatment overseas at public expense”. For him
lies are cheap even if they are expensive for the Nigerian public who has to
pay the price.
“Nor have Nigerians forgotten the
promise to end corruption when the $25 billion Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation scam is ringing in their ears along with the denials by the Vice
President that he never approved any contracts. How can they trust a government
that has still not released or acted on the SGF’s grass cutter contract probe
after six months?
“In the five years that he
governed Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan spent N16 trillion. The economy
grew. The Naira was stable. We had the greatest expansion of infrastructure
since the Gowon years and inflation was in single figures. In the two years
that President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled Nigeria, he has spent N15 trillion.
We have had recession. Naira collapsed.
“Inflation has gone back to
double digits and the only infrastructure that he has started and completed is
the Daura helipad. So Femi should spare us his propaganda and accept the truth
that he is the mouthpiece of a murderous regime sustained by propaganda and
surviving on corruption,” the statement added.
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