THE Ekiti State government has said the statement credited to President Goodluck Jonathan that insinuated that South-West governors are rascals must have been a slip of tongue.

Addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti, the Special Adviser to Governor Kayode Fayemi on Media, Alhaji Mojeed Jamiu, described President Jonathan as an intelligent man, stressing that he must have been quoted out of context.

“The statement by the president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, in Ibadan while kicking off his presidential campaign where he allegedly called South-West governors rascals was a mistake.

“But then to us, we feel they quoted him out of context because the president is an intelligent man. What he meant was actually that those guys are radicals, not rascal,” Jamiu posited.

“You know there is a similarity when you want to call somebody a radical, you may mispronounce and say rascal,”  he explained.

According to him, “the Peoples Democratic Party is afraid of the positive changes, the positive development happening in the South-West,” emphasising that, “it was difficult to fathom how anybody could describe intellectuals with good pedigree as rascals.”

Jamiu described Dr. Fayemi as a governor of international repute, saying that the influx of development partners including international bodies such as UNDP and DFID to the state was a testimony of his capability to rescue the state from its deplorable state of under-development.

“With what has happened within the first 100days of the Fayemi’s administration,

it is as if the governor has been in power for more than three and a half years. What the ousted and ancient regime could not achieve in three and a half years,
we were able to achieve in less than 100days.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/17499-jonathans-statement-on-rascals-a-slip-of-tongue-ekiti-govt

What he meant was actually that those guys are radicals, not rascal

that's one way of looking at it.

the d in radical could easily pass for s in rascal.

what's the connection between gj and ekiti govt btw. Did he make the utterance there?

According to Kayode


Jonathan no sabi English anymore -   He says Jonathan cant differientiate between Rascals and Radicals


See how them they yab  Mr Presido  - haba this no fair

these guys are really taking us for fools so we should take radicals as rascals

Them don finish our presido. He cant say he meant radicals & he cant also confirm that he meant rascals. Kai na wa oh 4 odechukwu. Slip of tongue.

Them don finish our presido. He cant say he meant radicals & he cant also confirm that he meant rascals. Kai na wa oh 4 odechukwu. Slip of tongue.

blacksta:

According to Kayode


Jonathan no sabi English anymore -   He says Jonathan cant differientiate between Rascals and Radicals


See how them they yab  Mr Presido  - haba this no fair

Fayemi was not the one that made that claim.

Na Jamiu. . . . I believe my Gov has better things to do.