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Video clip of Pres. Jonathan’s visit to wife, belated attempt at damage control – ACN

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The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as a belated attempt at damage control the presidency’s

decision to show on the NTA the video clip of President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to his wife in Germany,

saying the video has not addressed the demand for full disclosure on the First Lady’s seven-week disappearance.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party

said the comments attributed to presidential spokesman Reuben Abati concerning the video also shows that the

presidency either does not understand the issues at stake, or is deliberately playing the ostrich.

”Let’s be clear, there is nothing to be ashamed of in someone been sick since we are all human and anyone can fall

ill at any time. In particular, people occupying the public space, including the First Lady, who take ill deserve nothing

but our prayers and sympathy.

”However, where information about such persons are with-held or deliberately distorted, people tend to shift their focus

to unravelling the truth about the situation, which is the case with our First Lady,” it said.

ACN described as a shocking irony the fact that President Jonathan, who is aware that the poor management of information

over the illness of his predecessor, Pres. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, contributed to the erosion of public sympathy for the late

President and instead swung it in favour of his then Vice President (Jonathan), would make the same mistake by hoarding

information on the sickness of his wife.

”It is a shame that people just do not learn from the past. Irrespective of the cheeky and unprofessional comments by the

presidential spokesman, that the video has put paid to all the lies that people who play politics with almost everything have

been spreading, the indisputable fact, going by available information, is that the First Lady indeed took ill and was flown to

Germany for treatment.

”Had the information managers at the presidency lived up to their billing, there would have been a full disclosure immediately

the First Lady fell ill, and instead of the unnecessary controversy over her whereabouts, the good people of Nigeria would have

offered prayers in torrents for the First Lady and her family.

”Now making it look like the First Lady went to Germany on holiday ‘to rest’ or she is on a pilgrimage of sorts when indeed she is

recuperating from an illness is another testimony to the increasingly legendary incompetence and cluelessness that permeate this

presidency, and we expect all those involved in this amateurish attempt at cover-up to be ashamed of themselves, instead of

engaging in empty bravado and pointing fingers at imaginary enemies,” the party said.

 

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