President Goodluck Jonathan has replied the Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Lai Mohammed, through his special adviser on media and publicity, Reuben Abati, in abuja.The President in his statement said it is very ridiculous and rude for APC to claim he was in Lagos on Thursday 9, April ,2015 to plan the rigging of Saturday’s governorship election in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Jimi Agbaje.
Jonathan also made it known that if he couldn't rig the March 28 presidential election in which he was a candidate, there was no way he would rig the governorship election.
“Lai Muhammed is wrong to say that the President came to Lagos to rig the governorship and State House of Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday, April 11. He is of course lying as usual. And rude,”
“President Jonathan visited Lagos. He arrived on Thursday and left on Friday. People visited him. So what? Anytime the President is in Lagos or any part of the country, a lot of people come to pay homage to him.
“Nothing unusual happened during his last visit to Lagos. Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s visit to the President in Lagos is not something that anybody should use to play politics. Koro is a Minister of the Federal Republic. He came to see his boss. “Mr. Jimi Agbaje is the governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos.
I don’t see how his visit to the President, who is also the leader of his party, the PDP, should become an issue. Yes, Gani Adams also visited, but so did a lot of other people.”
Abaiti recalled that after the presidential election, the president immediately congratulated Muhammadu Buhari, noting that “the whole world has commended him for saving Nigeria”.
“President Jonathan’s sportsmanship, statesmanship and leadership saved this country at that critical moment. He has demonstrated his commitment to free and fair election, the rule of law and due process. He has shown that he is a man of character, honour and integrity. Nigerians generally are proud of him,” he said.
“He has left a worthy legacy and shown a great example. That, obviously, is the narrative that Lai Muhammed and his masters want to change, so they are now cooking up meaningless tales. “Lai Muhammed should look for another target and leave the President alone.
His fatuous tale does not make any sense.I repeat: we will like to advise that the APC should just leave the President alone.“President Jonathan was a candidate in the presidential election; he did not rig the election. Why would he want to rig tomorrow’s elections?”
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