ECOLOGICAL FUND: Jonathan’s denial not surprising, he doesn’t take responsibility –El-Rufai

Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufa’i, has described former President Goodluck Jonathan as a man who cannot take responsibility and said Nigerians should not be surprised at his denial over the role he played concerning the Ecological Fund.

Jonathan had denied El-Rufai’s earlier claims that he granted N2 billion Ecological Fund to states controlled by his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during his tenure.

He said the Kaduna State governor was a ‘notorious liar’, who always lies anytime he speaks.

But in response to Jonthan’s denial, El-Rufaí, through his spokesman, Samuel Aruwan, said that former President Jonathan has failed to justify why he only made the fund available to his cronies instead of all the states.

El-Rufai said of Jonathan, “He is not a man that can take responsibility for anything.

“In March 2015, not long after making concession call to President Buhari, he summoned his pecks and asked them to reject the result of an election whose winner he had congratulated in private.

“That effort and publicity failed spectacularly and the will of people prevailed. So no one should be surprised that he is denying presiding over the discrete distribution of the ecological funds.

“His denial begs the question, what special circumstance ensured that only states that were controlled by the PDP and its allied parties qualified for the N2 billion each.”

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He went further to say, “Jonathan cannot argue with fact that the payment are in the record of ecological fund.

“He knowingly engaged in discriminatory disbursement of federal fund; the legality of that is open to question.”

El-Rufai said Jonathan was not saying the fact that money was also disbursed for the Green Wall Project in some northern states.

According to El-Rufa’i, Jonathan had failed to prove how he (El-Rufai) lied over the way the former President disbursed the N2billion Ecological Fund.

 

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