Decibel:
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Adviser on Media, Reuben Abati, has dismissed the widespread view that the former president lost the last election because of incompetence and cluelessness.
Mr. Abati said in his first major interview in the October/November edition of The Interview out next week, that Mr. Jonathan was, “a victim of power game” and the vicious propaganda of the opposition.
“All they could focus on,” he said, “was trying to discredit the president. They called him clueless, they said he was incompetent, they said he was a drunkard!”
In a separate interview also featured in the coming edition of The Interview, Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, expressed a different view.
Mr. Adesina said he knew Mr. Jonathan would lose and was not surprised when it happened. “If Jonathan had won the election,” he said, “Nigeria would have shut down.” The government, he said, had run out of steam.
Mr. Abati spoke on the last days of Mr. Jonathan in Aso Rock; his own controversial retraction of the article against Mr. Buhari; the attitude of moneybags who abandoned Jonathan in his moment of need, his relationship with former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, and his love-hate drama with many of his passionate fans.
Mr. Adesina was no less forthright. He spoke on Mr. Buhari’s style, the war on corruption and Boko Haram, the CBN’s policy of defending the naira, and his relationship with the president.
The edition, which its publishers say will leave readers on the edge of their chairs, also contains interviews with the incoming vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Professor Abel Olayinka; a conversation with Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi; and an insight by social entrepreneur, Chude Jideonwo on how Red Media Africa ran Mr. Buhari’s election campaign.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191561-reuben-abati-femi-adesina-in-war-of-words-over-jonathan-buhari.html

pet4ril:
I wish they will just leave Jonathan alone. ..Haba

sunnyb0b0:


Why are all the people interviewed by the magazine Yorubas? #ethnicmagazine

HungerBAD:
Abati? I am trying to remember exactly when I lost respect for that man.

If he had done his Job properly, and sold his boss to the public well. I am sure we would have had a hard time taking Aso Rock.

Still don't know why he is still trying to be relevant. He, should first of all go and beg Kayode Ajala, for being ungrateful to the man that brought him out from nowhere in Abeokuta, to where he is today.

Then he should go to the School of A.Y the comedian, and learn how to package himself.

Abati should just shut up. We have Fayose the Clown entertaining us already.

sunnyb0b0:


Why are all the people interviewed by the magazine Yorubas? #ethnicmagazine

Jaideyone:
dunce

sunnyb0b0:


This is what you get when contraceptives fail.

Jaideyone:
ewu ibo I'm not a product of baby factory like you

sunnyb0b0:


Little wonder your birth certificate is an apology letter from the makers of the failed contraceptive to your parents.

Jaideyone:
bla bla bla all those lines you've been throwing are lame and out dated. I used them like 5yrs ago. now prove to me you are not a dunce. adesina is the presidential spokes man and abati was GEJ's spokesman. who do you expect them to interview? why did you have to complain only Yoruba men were interviewed? I repeat you are a dunce!!! oya kill yasef

sunnyb0b0:


You have now confirmed that you are one of those dull brains on Nairaland who only read the head line and then comment. Otherwise, you'd have seen the following part of the article;

"The edition, which its publishers say will leave readers on the edge of their chairs, also contains interviews with the incoming vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Professor Abel Olayinka; a conversation with Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi; and an insight by social entrepreneur, Chude Jideonwo on how Red Media Africa ran Mr. Buhari’s election campaign".