The former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has replied the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who had, during his address at the presentation of a book titled, “Making Steady Sustainable Progress” authored by President Muhammadu Buhari’s media aides at the Old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, accused his(Jonathan’s) administration of institutionalising corruption in Nigeria.

The former president spoke through his former aide and bestselling author, Pastor Reno Omokri,

The statement reads thus: “Again my attention has been drawn to disparaging comments made by Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu against former President Goodluck Jonathan and his administration. In the said comments, Mr. Tinubu said “The prior government used the public treasury as a private hedge fund or a charity that limited its giving only to themselves,” he said.

“So much money grew feet and ran away faster than Usain Bolt ever could. That which could have been spent on national development was squandered in ways that would cause the devil to blush.” Speaking further, the former Lagos State Governor said: “Boko Haram would have taken more territory and more lives would have been lost to insurgency if Jonathan had remained in power.” I would now address these allegations point by point using verifiable facts.

First of all, the only global body for monitoring corruption is Transparency International which releases an annual Corruption Perception Index. It is a fact that Nigeria made her most improvement in Transparency International‘s annual Corruption Perception Index In 2014 under President Jonathan when we moved from 144 to 136 representing an improvement of 8 points. Transparency International observed the Jonathan administration’s fight against the corruption in Nigeria’s fertilizer procurement regime, the use of technology to remove 50,000 Federal ghost workers and the speed at which the then President fired ministers accused of corruption or conflict of interests. From that time till today, Nigeria has not made any improvements and has remained at 136 where Jonathan left us because Transparency International deals with facts, not opinions or media trial. Other than media sensationalism, there have been no convictions of financial misappropriation stemming from the Jonathan era.

However, we do know that it is a fact that the allegedly corrupt pension thief, Abdulrasheed Maina, was dismissed and declared wanted by the Jonathan administration. We also now know that it is a fact that the present Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, met with Maina in Dubai. We know that Maina’s family revealed in a press conference that Maina was invited back to Nigeria by the present government. It is also a fact that Maina was recalled, reinstated and given double promotion by the current administration. Moreover, we know from the Head of Service’s leaked memo that President Muhammadu Buhari was aware of this entire saga.

Perhaps Asiwaju Bola Tinubu mistook the Usain Bolt speed at which Maina was smuggled back into the country and reinstated for the unproven claims of corruption under Jonathan. We also know that it is a fact that $25 billion worth of contracts were awarded at the NNPC without due process. It is also a fact that this is the highest ever such amount involved in Nigeria’s history. Again, perhaps it is this amount that Tinubu meant when he said “So much money grew feet and ran away faster than Usain Bolt ever could”. Or perhaps he was referring to Babachir Lawal. Nigerians should note that on the 7th of March 2014, then President Jonathan said “I am loyal to Nigeria’s economy. I don’t have accounts or property abroad.”

Till date, nobody has been able to contradict that statement because it is true. Can Bola Tinubu or anybody in the APC leadership make a similar claim? On the issue of Boko Haram and terrorism, it is a fact that there is only one global body recognized to monitor terrorism and that is the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) which releases the annual Global Terrorism Index. It is a fact that between 2013 and 2014, Nigeria under President Jonathan was unfortunately listed as the fourth most terrorized nation in the world.

However, in the latest Global Terrorism Index released yesterday (November 15, 2017) by the Institute for Economics and Peace, Nigeria has deteriorated from where Jonathan left it and is now the third most terrorized nation. In 2015, President Jonathan ensured that elections held in every local government in Borno states, but last month, the United Nations declared that they could no longer operate in certain local governments of Borno state. So who is fooling who? So if according to Transparency International, Nigeria was less corrupt under Jonathan than it is today and according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, Nigeria is more terrorized today than it was under Jonathan, it becomes clear that Bola Tinubu has no factual basis to make the claims he made.”

source-http://www.metrodailies.com/facts-deserted-bola-tinubu/

yet still our problem are not still solve. Like me i need money to stake game this week end ooo

Uncle Jones of Indiana Jones

bola, remi, jagaban, tinubu any other name again pls add to drive home my point(tinubu go and have ur siddon at the backyard)

To think that it is Tinubu who is calling Jonathan corrupt is beyond me! Have we so lost our sense of shame in this country?

The truth is every government in Nigeria fights corruption. If they don't fight it for the sake of the nation, they fight their enemies under anti-corruption crusade.

That being said, no Nigerians should take these clowns called politicians serious. While you fight to support them, they still talk to each other and even call themselves on the phone. Never mind the public dramas.

Can a government built on LIES AND PROPAGANDA ever work with facts?
Amalgamated Propaganda Confederate (APC).

Love the way Jona replied, very mature. Hit the nail in the tooth. Enhhhhn, Mr Tinubu, please any time we are talking about corruption, pls pls, try to avoid it because we don't give a f*** about your opinion

Tinubu always make reckless comments, i wonder.

Zombies Are Absent here

Jonathan Is The Best President nigeria ever had.

This Same Witch Okpolo Eye Tinubu Helped sponsor the Epidemic that Is Nigeria's Problem

Tinubu needs More Flogging from Buharis Cabal

Whynotthetruth:
on the 7th of March 2014, then President Jonathan said “I am loyal to Nigeria’s economy. I don’t have accounts or property abroad.” Till date, nobody has been able to contradict that statement because it is true. Can Bola Tinubu or anybody in the APC leadership make a similar claim?

Even their saint bubu cannot make such a claim.
The $2.8 billion he stole as federal commissioner for petroleum in the 70s is still stashed in London.
The billions he stole as PTF Chairman with Abacha don join am.
Now he has added Baru's $26 billion on top.
That is why he is always rushing to London faking sickness to enjoy Aisha in za oza room of medical tourism.
Such a loathsome thief.
Any wonder he could send his children to schools in Britain while pretending to be a broke ass, incompetent old soldier to his All Poverty Congress, APC zombies shouting change, change


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Tinubu, the father of corruption is awarding medals. While it is sad that the Jonathan government was enmeshed in corruption, Neither Tinubu nor Buhari has the right to award those medals because their actions have not proven us otherwise. When Buhari was stealing Nigeria Oil Corporation 2.8 Billion Dollars, Jonathan was writing his A'Levels, the theft Tinubu has perpetrated in Lagos State is monumental that generations unborn might not recover easily from it.

To refute the lies of a chronically sick lying government like that of the APC is just like joining in their bandwagon of stupidity.

Don't worry tinubu.. ..Dino is on the way

Who gave Tifnubu, the frog eyed man mouth to talk about corruption? Tinubu was born in corruption.

on the 7th of March 2014, then President Jonathan said “I am loyal to Nigeria’s economy. I don’t have accounts or property abroad.” Till date, nobody has been able to contradict that statement because it is true. Can Bola Tinubu or anybody in the APC leadership make a similar claim?

According to Zoo guiding principle, a man with foreign accounts, properties, and who's children schooled abroad is a SAINT, while a man who's children schooled in Nigeria and doesn't have foreign accounts, or properties, is corrupt. GEJ remains the most honest President the zoo ever had!

Misguided statement from Tinubu.

I don't understand why these people are still talking about the past....

Reno always saying trash...who doesn't know to what extent bokoharam operated during gej compared to now....

everybody are condemning past admin, even the corrupt grand master (Tinubu) think he gat an opinion too.

Its only in naija d people always prefer the previous Govt to the reigning one, but the govt officials always find way to blame the past...

Not seen NL resident zombies on this thread.
Tdarkside,Sarrki,Ngene,etc,e be like this one pass una
Too many verifiable truths maybe.

Truth will always standout where lies and propaganda thrives, there is no need to say anything further Mr Reno spoke based on verifiable facts which are open and available.

These killers and election usurpers who cannot give a single account of their stewardship unless they call GEJ's name as their only alibi to keep fooling themselves, forgetting that Nigeria of today is not the same as 1985.

We will present all election promises you made and all the counter denials and match them side by side with were we where before APC threatened Nigerians into sumission to their demand for power.

Good response

My ambition does not worth the blood of any innocent Nigerian....GEJ 2015. Nigerians today, you have the right to choose between light and darkness....GEJ 2015.

see finishing :Dsee finishing

Sarrki, my hero don reply o

I will take my time to break it down for zombies to grab ..

He talked about Maina

I'm coming

Tinubu, I have great respect for you but since you've gone for my hero's neck, we will ffondle your jugulars

Nigerians should note that on the 7th of March 2014, then President Jonathan said “I am loyal to Nigeria’s economy. I don’t have accounts or property abroad.”

Till date, nobody has been able to contradict that statement because it is true. Can Bola Tinubu or anybody in the APC leadership make a similar claim?

Perhaps Asiwaju Bola Tinubu mistook the Usain Bolt speed at which Maina was smuggled back into the country and reinstated for the unproven claims of corruption under Jonathan. We also know that it is a fact that $25 billion worth of contracts were awarded at the NNPC without due process. It is also a fact that this is the highest ever such amount involved in Nigeria’s history. Again, perhaps it is this amount that Tinubu meant when he said “So much money grew feet and ran away faster than Usain Bolt ever could”. Or perhaps he was referring to Babachir Lawal.