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…He\u2019s a serial liar\u2013Presidency<\/p>\n

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, on Saturday alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan was shielding the country\u2019s oil thieves.
El-Rufai also accused the President of playing sentimental politics in the build-up to the 2015 general elections. Speaking as guest of the week on a radio programmed monitored on Liberty FM, a Kaduna based radio station, the one-time Director-General of Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE), dared Jonathan to go after those stealing the country\u2019s major source of income.
On speculations that some persons were arming Ijaw youth for the purpose of instigating violence in 2015, he said: \u201cThis country has gone through one civil war and I don\u2019t know if any country has survived two civil wars. And those that are stealing crude oil and buying arms and stockpiling should know that its not the number of arms that determines who defeats a war. So they should think deeply and learn from history. One who doesn\u2019t learn from history will be a victim of it.
\u201cUnfortunately, Jonathan\u2019s political handlers thought that if they introduce religion, they will be able to divide the north and take the Christian part of the north to vote for Jonathan.
\u201cAnd if they introduce ethnicity, they will get the whole of the South.
\u201cThat\u2019s their winning strategy and now they are surprised that after dividing the country, they are finding it difficult to get the cooperation of everyone.
But reacting yesterday in a statement, the Presidency described el-Rufai as a serial liar arguing that, \u201csince el-Rufai has a history of saying the truth privately and the lie publicly, it suffices to warn his current fellow co-travelers that a man who can betray those who brought him up in politics is capable of anything.\u201d
The statement signed by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, also warned that, \u201cNigerians should consequently take his words with not just a pinch of salt, but a spoonful because a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.\u201d According to the statement, \u201cthis most recent interview, like others he gave in the past only shows that el-Rufai is a serial liar and the facts of history bear me witness.
\u201cIn the history of the existence of Nigeria as a nation, no leader has spent the quantum of funds that President Jonathan has spent on education specifically tailored for Islamic itinerant scholars known as the Almajirai. \u201cIn the composition of his cabinet, the President has appointed Muslims into sensitive positions and ensured a balance that has been commended by many in the Islamic fold.
\u201cIt is only a measure of his inconsistency that El-Rufai is today accusing the Presidency of being afraid of General Muhammadu Buhari whom the same El-Rufai said was \u201cperpetually unelectable\u201d.
\u201cIn fact, the accusation El-Rufai is now making against the President is precisely the same accusation he made against General Muhammadu Buhari on October 4 2010 when he said Buhari\u2019s \u2018insensitivity to Nigeria\u2019s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known\u2019.
Today, El-Rufai is serving this same Buhari.
In any case, we have a record of what el-Rufai truly thinks of President Jonathan from the leaked secret diplomatic memo from the U.S. Embassy in Abuja which revealed that just before the April 2007 Presidential election El-Rufai had told the then U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria that the then Vice Presidential candidate, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was \u2018clean and honest.\u2019 \u201cThe false accounts he rendered in his recent collection of half-truths and outright lies which he accidentally titled The Accidental Public Servant further define his public image as an ungrateful, self-serving and loquacious personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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