Jonathan to el-Rufai: you’re a liar [MUST READ]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan was all fury yesterday as he responded to the allegation by Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State that he (Jonathan) denied some states ecological fund for sentimental reasons. He branded the governor’s allegation as a lie and said el-Rufai “has an incurable knack for lying.” The governor had told reporters in Abuja on Thursday that Jonathan took N2bn each from the Ecological Fund and “gave to some PDP states. Any PDP state that was not his friend, like Kano and Kwara, didn’t get.” But reacting yesterday in a statement through Ikechukwu Eze, his Media Adviser, Dr.Jonathan said: “That Malam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, has an incurable knack for lying has been proved by his own boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who described el-Rufai in his book-My Watch Volume 2- as follows: ‘Nasir’s penchant for reputation savaging is almost pathological. Why does he do it? He is brilliant and smart. I grant him that also. Very early in...