Party (PDP) has said that the recent
disparagement of President Goodluck
Jonathan by Dr. Christopher Kolade is
worrisome and it wonders why the former
Nigerian High Commissioner to the United
Kingdom would choose such a critical political
period to mud-sling the President.
In a statement in Abuja, PDP's National
Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said it is
more embarrassing when Kolade who served
this government until recently as the
Chairman of SURE-P, a special development
and empowerment programme of the
Jonathan administration, chose to get his
facts mixed up about the character and
person of the President and the nature of the
overall security challenges in our country.
He said: "We found it curious that Dr. Kolade,
a supposedly apolitical elder statesman, who
has an unfettered access to the President,
could resort to public mudslinging, relying on
oft-repeated lies of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) apparently aimed to
disparage and discredit the President ahead
of the 2015 general elections.
"Indeed, the timing and the tenor of Dr.
Kolade's outburst, given the security and
political situation in the land, is also very
worrisome especially when a nerve-soothing
statement from a person of his age and
status could have encouraged our citizens
and help douse the tension in the polity.
"It is mind-blowing and embarrassing that
this eminent technocrat could attempt to
stand history on its head by stating that
President Goodluck Jonathan went to a rally in
Kano State "the next day" after 59 students
were killed in Yobe State. It is common
knowledge and verifiable fact that the said
PDP Kano rally held on April 15, 2014, about
two months after the unfortunate killing of 59
students in Yobe in February, 2014.
"Whilst we do not expect everybody to agree
with President Jonathan's leadership style, we
are nevertheless encouraged that Nigerians
from all walks of life appreciate the President
as a committed and sincere leader with very
strong bond with his people and their well-
being irrespective of religious, ethnic and
political affiliations."
PDP insists that in the last four years, under
President Jonathan, Nigeria has witnessed
unprecedented growth and verifiable
achievements in all sectors with the economy
ranking as the largest in Africa in spite of the
daunting security challenges and the global
economic recession, a fact which it
emphasized Dr. Kolade as a technocrat is fully
aware of.
"We therefore totally disagree with Dr. Kolade
when he said that 'Nigeria has had it much
better than now.
"It is incontrovertible that the Federal
Government has sustained the fight against
insurgency, deploying huge budgetary
allocations to re-equip our security forces as
well as intensified collaborations with
national and international stakeholders to
bring lasting peace to our country."
Posted By David Aniemeka
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