‘Respect your old age’, stop lying, Jonathan’s ex-aide fires back at Buhari’s spokesman

Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has advised the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, to respect his old age and stop lying.

Omokri was responding to Shehu’s claim that Jonathan and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no achievement to talk about in the 16 years they ruled the country from 1999 to 2015.

Shehu stated this while debunking the claim Jonathan made in his book, “My Transition Hours”, that corruption is now worse under the current government of Buhari than it was during his administration.

“The former President (Jonathan) and his party have nothing to say about achievements. They ruled the country for 16 years and what is their record on jobs, power, rail, seaports, airports and internal security, including the crippling disaster of terrorism?”

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But replying through his Twitter handle, Omokri wrote: “@Garshehu respect your old age. Stop LYING. The only federal university in @MBuhari’s state was built by @GEJonathan. He built 165 almajiri schools, Abuja-Kad railway, 4 power stations, 4 hospitals. What has your boss built? No project finished in 4 years.”

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