Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Nigeria’s former president has officially responded to bribery allegations leveled against him by the federal government in an oil scandal dating eight years back.
According to filings in a London court hearing the said
case, the Nigerian government had accused Jonathan and his then oil minister of
accepting bribes and breaking the country’s laws to broker the $1.3 billion oil
deal.
In his rebuttal, Jonathan dismissed all the claims as among
others; falsehood, cheap and predictable ploy by the government to deflect from
its failings and to tarnish his image at a time his profile continued to soar.
The May 12 statement issued by his media advisor, Ikechukwu
Eze, read in part: We will quickly dismiss this report as a recycled falsehood
that is blatantly dishonest, cheap, and predictable.
Although there is nothing new in this fabricated bribery
claim which we had severally debunked in the past, we will continue to restate
the following facts:
Former President Goodluck Jonathan did not ask for or
collect any bribes, neither has he been charged for asking or collecting
bribes, neither will he ever be charged with asking for or collecting bribes,
because such never happened.
That this particular dispute predated the Jonathan
administration and survives it.
That former President Jonathan is 61 years old and
throughout his life has never opened an account, nor owned property outside
Nigeria. Perhaps those behind this latest propaganda would be bold enough to
make the same deposition?
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