President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday stated that he did not leave an empty treasury for his successor, President Muhammadu Buhari, describing Pastor Tunde Bakare’s claims to that effect as false and untenable.

Bakare was quoted as claiming during a recent trip to Canada that President Buhari could not appoint a cabinet for six months because “he met an empty treasury.”


But in a statement by one of Jonathan’s media aides, Reno Omokri, he described Bakare’s statement as lies and a figment of both the imaginations of President Buhari and Pastor Bakare.

“The Jonathan administration left $2.07 billion in the Excess Crude Account when it handed over to the Buhari administration on May 29, 2015. This is an easily verifiable fact from both the Central Bank of Nigeria and is also available from other open sources”, Omokri stated.

“In addition to that, the Jonathan government left a foreign reserves of $29. 6 billion for the incoming government and $5.2 billion was left for the Buhari administration by way of dividend payments from the NLNG.

“Now, there is no way these huge amounts can be described as empty treasury. I challenge Pastor Tunde Bakare to disprove these figures I have given here or take me to court and I will embarrass him there and show him to be the liar that he is.”

He also disputed claims by Pastor Bakare that Nigeria no longer imports rice as untrue.

Omokri said, “first of all, even the Buhari administration has not claimed that Nigeria is no longer importing rice. What they said, which is also a lie, is that rice imports have reduced.

“But the truth is that Nigeria’s rice imports have actually increased by 60 per cent as revealed by no less an institution than the United States Department of Agriculture.

“In fact, according to the USDA, not only has Nigeria’s rice imports increased by 60 per cent, but Nigeria is projected to be the second largest rice importing nation.

“These are the exact words of the USDA “China and Nigeria are projected to remain the largest rice importing countries in 2019, followed by the EU, Cote d’Ivoire, and Iran.

“You do not have to take my word for this – google it by yourself. The last time Nigeria’s rice imports went down, according to the USDA, was in 2015 under former President Jonathan.”

Omokri added that Bakare’s claims that 17 Local Government Areas (LGAs) occupied by Boko Haram are no longer an issue means that Pastor Bakare is out of touch, saying that as he was granting that interview, Baga, Doron-Baga, Kross Kawwa, Bunduran, Kekeno and Kukawa towns are all under Boko Haram/ISWAP’s control.

“In fact, the Governor of Borno State, a notorious political enemy of former President Jonathan, was forced to hold a press conference on New Year’s eve where he confessed that the situation has deteriorated and was worse than before.

“For emphasis, the following was the front page headline in the Punch on New Year’s eve “Residents flee as Boko Haram takes over Borno communities”, Jonathan’s spokesman said.

“There has been mass movement of people out of communities in Borno State through Damaturu the Yobe State capital to Bauchi, Gombe, Kebbi, Zamfara, Kebbi and Jigawa States.”

He added that unlike the Jonathan era, the insecurity in Nigeria is almost total, arguing that “as I write this today (January 2, 2019, Aminu Bello Masari, the Governor of Katsina State, President Buhari’s own state, raised an alarm on the insecurity and breakdown of law and order in his state.”

Omokri further stated, “We are not talking of Zamfara or the North-east. We are talking Katsina. If Buhari cannot secure his own state, is it Nigeria he can secure? And then there is Zamfara State, which is becoming as bad, if not worse, than the Northe-ast.”

He said that with these unimpeachable facts it is hard pressed to understand why “Pastor Tunde Bakare cannot respect himself and the calling he claims to have, by using his mouth to speak truth instead of lying like a heathen.”

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GEJ just shut and continue hiding in shame.

Because your the cause of this calamity called Buhari we have as president today.

Only if you were an active president.

thief reno can lie in heaven,
boko haram hoist their flags in 20 local governments area in NE,
boko haram sack more than 2m indigenes from their home in NE. to various idp camps across the country,
and these innocent citizens in idp camps are fed with rice, yam, beans and maize ETC produce in Nigeria.
hence, 95％ of Rice are produce here.

Fuckyoumod:
GEJ just shut and continue hiding in shame.

Because your the cause of this calamity called Buhari we have as president today.

Only if you were an active president.

You need to shut up too... Didn't you see better and educated candidate to vote for apart from the lifeless dullard

You voted for change, enjoy your chain in peace and leave GEJ out of this.

The only thing that save this man is that he accepted defeat if not, he wud have being in EFCC till now.

He left empty treasury, yet buhari was giving out money like father Christmas when he came in.

Lol...

The treasury was indeed battered, raped without condom, decimated and left unchecked for every tom dickk and harry to do as they please, so long as they could sing praises to the high heavens in the form of TAN.

Putting back the lid on the national "pot of soup" is the best I can commend Bubu for. The lack of the usual unfettered access to our collective pie to service their lazy insatiable greed for thieving is the only reason they keep crying and throwing tantrums. Who wouldn't?

The baboons have been so spoilt to believe access to the national coffers was their rights and a means to keep sustaining their ostentatious lifestyle.

Na the poor man tears and prayers dey deal with una one by one.

Metuh:


You need to shut up too... Didn't you see better and educated candidate to vote for apart from the lifeless dullard

You voted for change, enjoy your chain in peace and leave GEJ out of this.

who is this cankerworm

Your mouth is running like a defective tap valve with no control!!!
who told you I voted for Buhari

You and GEJ should shut up and keep hiding in shame!!!

Reasonable Nigerians know that
Even if it was empty, what has stopped Buhari from generating funds

aolawale025:
Reasonable Nigerians know that
Even if it was empty, what has stopped Buhari from generating funds

And who said they are not generating funds?


Typical ipob, when they say A, Igbos will start struggling with B.

Liar
GEJ ole

Fuckyoumod:
who is this cankerworm
Your mouth is running like a defective tap valve with no control!!! who told you I voted for Buhari
You and GEJ should shut up and keep hiding in shame!!!

Since everyone is denying voting for dullard Buhari,then who did

You should hide your head in shame too for voting Buhari. ZonB

Jonathan you re fool . You inheritted 47b foreign reserve from yaradua after making $381b from crude oil proceed during oil boom you left a depleted reserve of $29b where did all these money go to, plus income from other revenue.
You re the worst thing that happened to nigeria.
Obj grew reserve from 3b to 45b when crude was at highest at $50.

Oil at highest 78 Yardua grew it to $63b you blew $20b away as acting president .

Oil was at $100 to $120 under you what did u do with it.

It shall not be well with you

deomelllo:
The same week you vacated office for PMB, you borrowed hundreds of billions to pay workers salary.


You borrowed from your first day in office till your last day in office even though you generated more oil money than any government in the history oF Nigeria.

Thank God Nigerians kicked you out of office.

Na wa for you