The leadership of the Peoples Democratic 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-boggling 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.”
Source: National Mirror
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-boggling 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.”
Source: National Mirror
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