Reno Omokri says Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai
doesn’t like former President Goodluck Jonathan because he wasn’t selected as
Vice President.
The former presidential aide made the revelation in reaction
to El-Rufai’s claim that Jonathan wanted to jail him.
Omokri said El-Rufai was on a self imposed exile during the
administration of Umar Yar’adua and returned to Nigeria on May 5, 2010, the day
the ex-President died.
He said El-Rufai returned due to his belief that the
atmosphere was more conducive for him under Jonathan.
Omokri recalled that six days after his return, El-Rufai
visited Jonathan at the State House and held a press conference where he made
“unsolicited comments” asking Jonathan to contest the 2011 elections and
assured he would support.
“After the then President named Mr. Namadi Sambo as his Vice
President, two days later on May 13, 2010, Mr. El-Rufai became very bitter and
made plans to leave the Peoples Democratic Party and began to undermine the
Jonathan administration.
“In keeping with the Jonathan Doctrine, wherein Dr. Jonathan
said “I have no enemies to fight, because of my confidence that people can only
do to me what God permits”, the then President refused to move against Mr.
El-Rufai.”
Omokri said security reports received by Jonathan indicated
that El-Rufai was engaged in provocative activities in order to instigate his
own arrest to boost his popularity.
The government critic said the governor made several
inciting comments that were injurious to Nigeria’s peace, unity and progress.
He recalled that on September 8, 2014, El-Rufai claimed
Jonathan founded and funded Boko Haram to the tune of N50billion to give Islam
a bad name.
That on November 25, 2014, El-Rufai told the world that
Jonathan traveled to Chad to plan Boko Haram attacks with late President Idriss
Deby.
Omokri further mentioned the January 5, 2014 allegation by
El-Rufai that he, President Buhari and other prominent Nigerians were on a list
of people to be killed by the Jonathan administration,
Noting that the spurious and defamatory statements could have
led to his arrest and prosecution, Jonathan took a statesmanly position to
ignore them, in order not to heighten the political tension in the country.
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