Reno Omokri, has asked General
Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Enoch Adeboye, to
direct Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo to stop attacking former President
Jonathan.
The former presidential aide said
this in reaction to Osinbajo’s remarks at the 7th Presidential Quarterly
Business Forum for private sector stakeholders at the State House conference
centre.
Osinbajo had claimed that the
Jonathan administration shared N150 billion two weeks to the 2015 poll.
Omorki, in a statement on
Tuesday, said the Vice President “has again surrendered his lips to satan to be
used to spread slander and lies”.
He wrote: “Nigerians may recall
that lying is the most consistent achievement of Professor Osinbajo’s almost
three years as Vice President.
“Only on October 20, 2017, Vice
President Osinbajo was in Anambra state where he lied that the present
administration had paid $2 billion for the second Niger Bridge.
“Even after Jonathan left office,
it is still monies that he left behind that the Buhari administration is using.
“It will also be recalled that in
February 2016, the Vice President again lied when he claimed that both the
Jonathan and Yar’adua governments did not build a single road. This fact was
easily disproved when even members of this administration, including Osinbajo’s
boss, President Buhari, began commissioning projects, including roads built by
the Jonathan administration.
“Some of the roads either built
or rebuilt by the Jonathan administration include the Benin-Ore portions of the
Benin-Lagos road, the Vom-Manchok road, the Kano-Zaria Road bridge (named after
late Emir Ado Bayero) and many more.
“On this most recent allegation
by Vice President Osinbajo, let me state categorically that former President
Jonathan DID NOT share 150 billion two weeks to the 2015 election. If Professor
Osinbajo has proof that former President Jonathan did so, then we challenge him
to publish his proof. He is a professor of law and ought to know that he who
alleges must prove.
“Again, it is a lie from the pit
of hell that the Jonathan administration spent only N14 billion on agriculture
and N153 billion on infrastructure in three years as alleged by the fallacious
Osinbajo.
“The Jonathan administration
budgeted and spent over $10 billion on infrastructure in the 5 years between
May 6, 2010 and May 29, 2015.
“The single most expensive and
valuable project built in Nigeria in the last 20 years is the $1.8 billion
Abuja-Kaduna 187 kilometres super-fast railway that enables Nigerians work in
Abuja and live in Kaduna.
“This project was built and
completed by the Jonathan administration. Is the Vice President aware of this?
“Also, former President Jonathan
revived Railways in five of the six geo-political zones and restored direct
rail services from Lagos to Kano, Port Harcourt to Maiduguri and Makurdi to
Gombe.
“When Rotimi Amaechi took over as
minister of transport in 2015, he said (this is a direct quote)
“In fact, I think we have a
problem; most people don’t believe that the railway transport is functioning in
Nigeria. I didn’t even know, until I started this tour, I never knew that the
railway was functioning, it was even from his (MD’s) speech that I learnt that
there are some coaches or services that go to Kano or Port Harcourt or
elsewhere.”
“My question to the Vice
President is who built these rail infrastructures that Amaechi was referring
to?
“Who built the only Federal
University in President Buhari’s home state of Katsina including 13 other
Federal Universities and 165 almajiri schools? It was ex-President Jonathan.
“In contrast, the Buhari
administration, which in less than three years has borrowed more money than the
PDP borrowed in 16 years cannot point to even one major project they have
started and completed.
“Both President Buhari and Vice
President Osinbajo keep accusing the Jonathan administration of being corrupt
and claim that they run an anti-corruption government.
“If this is true, how come
Nigeria made her best ever improvement in Transparency International’s
Corruption Perception Index under former President Jonathan in 2014 when we
moved 8 places forward from 144 to 136 and why have we made our worst ever
retrogression in the Corruption Perception Index under President Buhari, moving
12 places backward from 136 to 148 in 2018?
“The truth is that Vice President
Yemi Osinbajo continues to make these discredited comments because he is a man
promoted above his competency.
“He was never a deputy Governor
or Governor or an ambassador or a minister. His highest portfolio before
becoming Vice President was that of a commissioner in Lagos state.
“No wonder he was referred to as
‘ordinary commissioner’ by a prominent member of the All Progressive Congress
(APC) and leading figure in this current administration.”
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