Hon
Ghali Na’Abba, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and former member
of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said
in his 16 years sojourn in the PDP, the only regret he has is working for
President Goodluck Jonathan’s election in 2011. Na’Abba, said:
“My only
regret is partaking in the election of Goodluck Jonathan. I have really
regretted being among those who partook in the campaign to have him as the
president of this country even though I did it altruistically but I think he
has betrayed this country. What he said when we were going to begin was that he
would work to ensure and sustain the unity of this
country.
“Today, he has become the most divisive president in Nigeria. He has
divided Nigerians along religious and ethnic lines. There is no week that he
would not go from one church to another, issuing political statements. The Archbishop
of Jos, Bishop Kaigama had to warn him to stop doing that. Imagine today if
General Buhari would be moving from mosque to mosque campaigning, what would
happen to the country, the same Buhari they are accusing of wanting to Islamise
Nigeria. I believe that this man [Jonathan] must go. We
need a leader that has values in this country.”
Na’Abba who
resigned from the party last week, in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP,
said over time, he had lost confidence in the ability of Jonathan to lead the
country and though he had tried to advice on the need for the proper things to
done, his advice was not heeded, hence the decision to dump the PDP once and
for all.
“They either don’t
want the elections to hold or they want to chip away the credibility of the
elections once they lose. They want people to accept that there are anomalies
in what INEC is doing,” he reveaked.
"I just read
two days ago that the president gave the families of those that died N75 million
and jobs. That is one year after and up till now, the minister who organised
this scandalous situation is still a minister and nothing has been done about
it.
"So, the
extraordinary thing would have been that those millions of young men and women were
given jobs by his administration.
“If for example,
by the end of the four years he has been President, a substantial number of our
youths through creative means have gotten jobs, I would say yes, Goodluck
Jonathan has done an extraordinary thing but if you construct a road from Benin
to Ore or from Calabar to Enugu, this is something that you are supposed to do;
it doesn’t take any extra intelligence for anybody to do it once there are the
resources... So, there is nothing extraordinary I can say that Jonathan has
done.”
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