President Jonathan tells Buhari not to single him out for probe

President Goodluck Jonathan has advised the
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, not to single
out his administration in any probe he may want
to carry out after his inauguration on Friday.

Speaking yesterday at the valedictory session of
the Federal Executive Council in Abuja, President

Jonathan said all those advising Buhari
(including former Minister of Defence, Gen.
Theophilus Danjuma), to probe his administration
must also advise him to extend his probe beyond
his regime to administrations before him or it will
be regarded as witch hunting.

In his exact words, President Jonathan said...
“Some people are even calling for the probe of
this government. I agree that in Nigeria, there are
a number of things that we will probe; very many
things.

“Even debts owed by states and this nation from
1960 up to this time. They are saying it is
Jonathan’s administration that is owing all the
debts.
“I believe that anybody calling for probe must
ensure that these probes are extended beyond the
Jonathan administration, otherwise to me, it will
be a witch-hunt. If you are very sincere, then it is
not just the Jonathan’s administration that should
be probed.

“A number of things have gone wrong and we
have done our best to fix them. The Attorney
General is aware of the massive judgement debts,
if we aggregate all of them, it is about $1bn. How
did we come to this kind of huge judgement
debts? These issues should be probed.

“How do you allocate our oil wells, oil fields,
marginal wells and others? Do we follow our
laws? All these should be probed. I believe all
these and many more areas should be looked at,"
he said.

The President also listed some of the challenges
faced by his administration to include the
prolonged ASUU strike, terror attacks and the
ongoing fuel scarcity. He however described the
fuel scarcity as an act of sabotage.
“Even this last fuel scarcity, to me one can clearly
say it was an act of sabotage. This government
has few days to go, that is definitely not the time
you expect massive strikes, using marketers and
unions. Unions asking for increase in salaries at a
time oil prices have dropped and volumes have
dropped,” he said.

The President also made it clear that he had not
dissolved his cabinet as all ministers were
expected to attend the inauguration dinner on
Thursday in their official capacity.

Rounding up his speech, President Jonathan said
regardless of what critics might say about his
administration, he and his team had done their
best for Nigeria under a difficult situation.

News Agency of Nigeria.