coogar:

truth be told, ribadu is a goat!
jonathan didn't start well but i must say he has found his mojo in the last 90 days. his decision-making has been spot on since the 2nd quarter of the year and if he continues with the same form, my votes would go to him.

my problem is - why are the attacks against jonathan coming when he seems to be doing very well? besides, if anyone must attack jonathan, it should never be ribadu. he shouldn't even have been allowed to give any public speech - he ought to be on exile hiding under caves and rocks till natural death comes!

To be honest, I don't care much for Abati or Ribadu. As a Nigerian, all I care about is good governance and accountability. All these other issues are irrelevant

Abati should have given this hypocrite more than he got. The govt that rehabilitated Ribadu is now dictatorial? Shame on truth & conscience in this country.

9jaganja: As the office of the FRN, you ar enot suppose to be throwing accusations at Nigerians be it opposition or whatever. If they say something untrue, you disprove it with "presidential facts".

If you really need to talk dirty, use proxy organizations not the office of the presidency. Jonathan try and be civilized now..

Rubbish

it is the grass that suffers when two elephants fight

coming from an Anti-Corruption CZAR who once vowed to bring Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Justic.. this speaks reeks a lot

Afrocatalyst: Mr Abati why nau? U dey spoil presidential opportunity given to u,abi na federal character sef. Thread wisely sah,d presidency is nt a permanent position.

Ok i see, he should praise that Nuhu abi or keep queit.

I am one Southerner who respect Ribadu highly.
I haven't seen his lecture in KD but if he actually said that about the administration, then I'm disappointed. One reason I respect him was the fact that he didn't go the way of El-Rufai and the likes.
If he has chosen to go that way, then I'm sorry for the North.

lagerwhenindoubt: coming from an Anti-Corruption CZAR who once vowed to bring Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Justic.. this speaks reeks a lot

Somebody should tell me any lie here that Abati scripted here about Ribadu. Waiting to be challenged

both Abati and Ribadu are low class politicians who deligt in hugging the limelight with silly statements, but it is okay, it shows that we are practising a democracy where there is freedom of speech.. And freedom is always open to abuse when given to infidels!

Gosh!..governance has attained a brand new low.
Whoever want to criticise let them criticise but prove them wrong by your deeds not by sending someone to reply every poo with a bigger poo..isn't there enough problem for presidency to handle than make out time to reply every critics..no matter how good or bad you are you'd be criticised even as a common man with no nametage or office much the president.
How did we get to this stage sef..and someone said its not GEJ that's replying Ribadu, who's Abati holdimg forte for?
We need someone with verbal intelligence and emotional stability among other things to rule us..anything below that is trash!
I wonder how some people run there homes..your wife nags at you ..you nag back I guess..jeeeez..I tire!

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20pounds: Abati should have given this hypocrite more than he got. The govt that rehabilitated Ribadu is now dictatorial? Shame on truth & conscience in this country.

When people have preconceived mindset, that is the kind of response you ll get from them. Reading with their already skewed mindset rather than being objective and address the fact. My bros dont mind them jare

Who can win ruben abati in this verbal war no body

ibkgab001: Who can win ruben abati in this verbal war no body

I think Abati is giving Okupe a run for his money

Two4Two: Abati sure knows how to fire his missiles to opponents of the presidency. One day he will leave the post and we shall see how he will change his opinion. We are waiting for him at the other side.

continue waiting

9jaganja: As the office of the FRN, you ar enot suppose to be throwing accusations at Nigerians be it opposition or whatever. If they say something untrue, you disprove it with "presidential facts".

If you really need to talk dirty, use proxy organizations not the office of the presidency. Jonathan try and be civilized now..

Honestly, you took it from my mouth. Point on!

homesteady:

From what I read from the post, it was Abati that said it!! Not jonathan!! So jonathan does not have more pressing issues to attend to, that he'll start answering Ribadu stupid criticism?

What ever Abati says, as the spoke person of Jonathan, is said by Jonathan. That's why he's called; 'The Presidential Spoke Person/Man'

I love nigeria my country not because abati and ribadu are two useless people because there always made my day with there foolishness

mbhs139:

What ever Abati says, as the spoke person of Jonathan, is said by Jonathan. That's why he's called; 'The Presidential Spoke Person/Man'

So okay, GEJ said it. What about that?

Ruben Abbati never seizes to amaze me. He seems to be oblivious of nature of the office of the president. For a presidential spokesman to open his mouth and pour such invectives on a citizen for expressing his opinion, is utterly disgusting. History is patiently waiting to consign him to his appropriate place in the annals of Nigerian politics

Gbawe: One can tell that a highly insecure team GEJ is extremely rattled by Ribadu's utterance. This disgraceful, over-the-top and unpresidential attack against Ribadu is just unbelievable. The word "pr0st1tute" Sad and indicative of a highly paranoid and power-obsessed Presidency that has fully gotten into the gutter.

This will always happen when people are placed far above their station. His fans may not like to hear it but GEJ does not have the decorum, class, intelligence, pragmatism or self-assuredness to be President of the biggest black Nation on earth. Sadly, this is now showing every day.

Gbawe, ur analyses, insight, n maturity is sometin i will always admire. I always look forward 2 ur post, God bless u.

mankand: Abati or Apati or whatever you call your name.

You are the Ethically-Challenged Hypocrite here (Esau) You have sold your dignity for just loaves of bread, how time change.

It is a shame, but do not worry, come 2015, i advise you follow your headless master back to the creeks and return back to his fishing business or oil bunkering if not, you both will be cooling behind bars.

We are voting you all out.

#Mark my word#

stop decieving yourself. Who are the 'we'? Who are you voting out? Did you ever vote in Abati?

When he (Ribadu) was in the ship it didn't sinck despite the bags of looted Naira he was carrying every day. Why will the ship sinck now is it because there is no any Mallam inside? These northern leaders are the worst set of shameless LIERS.

..God, I love this man Abati

Guardian Thursday, 27th Aug 2010
Opinion – By Reuben Abati
DEMOCRACY is readily associated with
freedom: the freedom to be free in
many respects and increasingly in
Nigeria, many of our compatriots,
particularly persons in positions of
privilege and authority confuse this
with the right to be disagreeable. The
sober truth is that democracy is about
rights and responsibilities, a
democratic dispensation therefore
cannot be a licence for disagreeable
conduct as a norm; just as the
possession of power in any form does
not guarantee the right to be reckless
or to ignore the etiquette required of
office holders. Anyone in the corridors
of power, either by chance or right, or
appointment, is expected to behave
decorously.
Dame Patience Jonathan, as she is now
referred to, our President’s wife, failed
the test this week in Okrika, Rivers
State. It is trite knowledge that there
is a critical difference between
Yenagoa and Abuja, and a world of
difference between being the wife of a
Deputy Governor/Governor/Vice
president and being the wife of
Nigeria’s No 1 citizen. When people
suddenly find themselves in such latter
position, prepared or unprepared,
anywhere in the world, they are taken
through a crash programme in finishing
and poise and made to realize that
being the wife of an important man
comes with serious responsibilities lest
they sabotage the same person that
they should be supporting.
If Dame Patience went through such
re-orientation, the course was
incomplete. This week, we got a
feedback drawn from her visit to
Rivers state to launch her NGO – the
Women for Change Initiative, when
she ended up in Okrika, her home
town. This homecoming became an
egoistic show-off as she openly
contradicted the state Governor,
offering him unsolicited lessons on
how to develop the Okrika water front
and school system, in addition to
pointed comments on the use of the
English language. The Governor had
reportedly insisted that his
administration must demolish some
houses which adjoin the schools in
Okrika in order to create a proper
learning environment. Dame Patience
disagreed.
She then gave an unsolicited lecture
on the land tenure system telling the
Governor: “I want you to get me clear.
I am from here. I know the problems
of my people so I know what I am
talking…” The Governor tried to
explain his administration’s policy and
the larger public interest. The Dame
reportedly cut him short: “But what I
am telling you is that you always say
you must demolish; that word must
you use is not good. It is by pleading.
You appeal to the owners of the
compound because they will not go
into exile. Land is a serious issue.”
Wao! “that word must..is not good.”
We must all commit that to memory as
we re-learn Practical English according
to Patience Jonathan!
If it is in the place of the President’s
wife to teach a state Governor how to
run his state, it is definitely not in her
place to veto a state policy (the reason
the governor used the word “must”),
not even her husband has such
powers. It seemed as if Dame
Patience Jonathan was determined to
impress her kith and kin. She told
them she had directed the governor
not to demolish their houses. Then,
she left straight for the airport
obviously having overstayed her
welcome and having behaved like a
bad guest. She was scheduled to visit
the prisons to grant amnesty to some
inmates (is that really her duty or
something that should be in her
itinerary? ); she was also meant to
commission some projects. The face-
off between her and the governor put
paid to all that.
On the eve of her arrival, a group
which calls itself “the Okrika Political
Stakeholders Forum” and “the people
of Kirikese” had actually placed an
advert in the papers welcoming “our
amiable daughter and sister…to Rivers
state and your home town Okrika.”
They also brought up the issue of “the
land reclamation and shore protection
project at Oba Ama, Okrika being
undertaken by the Rivers state
government.” (Daily Sun, August 23,
2010, p. 2). Either on the strength of
this advertorial or private
consultations, Dame Patience must
have felt compelled to be a partisan
stakeholder and intercessor. She
needed to put Rotimi Amaechi, the
state Governor in his place and that
was what did. She recommended
“pleading,” – that advice is actually
meant for her. A state Governor is a
duly elected official; and in a Federal
system, he is not answerable to the
President, and nowhere is the
president granted the powers of a
Headmaster over state governors. In
Okrika, Dame Patience behaved so
impatiently and spoke to Governor
Amaechi as if he is on the staff of the
Presidency. It may not be her fault
though. Amaechi caused it all by
bringing himself to such level by
undertaking to debrief Dame Patience
about his administration’s programmes
and activities in the misguided hope of
getting cheap political endorsement.
He should have asked his wife to
attend to her. On the issue of land,
Dame Patience should be reminded
that the Land Use Act, Section 1
thereof, says the state Governor holds
the land in trust for the people. Land
matters in the state are beyond the
ken of the wife of the President!
The wife of the President of Nigeria, or
a state Governor, or a local council
chairman, is not a state official. The
same applies to husbands if the
gender is reversed. He or she is
unknown to the constitution or the
governance structure. Recent history
has however made it a convention to
have the spouses of persons in such
positions under the guise of providing
support, play some ceremonial roles.
This has been routinely abused. Under
the Jonathan presidency, Dame
Patience Jonathan even got a special
allocation in the original budget for
the 2010 Golden jubilee anniversary
whereas she has no official, financial
reporting responsibilities! The
international standard is that spouses
in these circumstances must not only
appear but be seen to be above board
like Caesar’s wife. They must not
misbehave like Marie Antoinette.
When Cherie Blair, wife of former
British PM, Tony Blair started buying
up houses, apartments and antique
furniture, the public raised questions.
It didn’t matter that she was a
professional in her own right, a
Queen’s Counsel with a traceable
source of income. There were also
questions about the scope of Hillary
Clinton’s influence during her
husband’s Presidency: Americans
wanted to be sure that it was the man
they elected that was in charge, not
his wife. A couple of weeks ago, the
American public was up in arms against
Michelle Obama and her poll rating
dropped drastically after a visit to
Spain where she and her daughter
reportedly stayed in a $7, 000 a night
hotel.
Much earlier, Nancy Reagan was also
the butt of public criticism, with
people asking: who is she? And this is
not a female thing. In Britain, Prince
Phillip, the Queen’s husband, is
constantly criticized for putting his foot
in his mouth. He once said for
example that “British women can’t
cook.” He told a visiting Nigerian
President, all dressed up in babariga
(name withheld): “you look like you’re
ready for bed.” During a state visit to
China, he told British students: “if you
stay much longer, you’all be slitty-
eyed.” Prince Phillip’s supporters insist
that he is honest, but the majority ask:
how is the Queen coping with such a
man who is perpetually saying
something offensive? There may be
persons who defend Dame Patience’s
aggressive style, but some of us ask:
how is the President coping?
Since Dr Jonathan assumed office, he
and his wife have been practically on
the road. The Dame has travelled from
one state to the other, under the
auspices of the Women for Change
Initiative. In every state she tells the
women to vote and “make sure your
vote counts if you like my husband.” Is
she now a partisan politician? The
Jonathans must be told that Nigeria
does not have a co-Presidency. We
have only one president and his name
is Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. And by
the way, what does Dame Patience
Jonathan do for a living? She obviously
does not have to deal with the
challenges of rotation and zoning in
her home, unlike the three wives of
the Adamawa Governor, Murtala
Nyako for whom zoning and rotation
have become topical subjects or the
wives of South African President Jacob
Zuma – that is why she can afford to
be so meddlesome!
When she misbehaves as she did in
Okrika, she creates the impression
that her husband is not in control of
his own home. First ladies are
prominent figures but their conduct is
an eternal subject of public interest. In
Nigeria, there was Victoria Gowon,
there was also Ajoke Muhammed:
dignified and restrained. There was
Maryam Babangida – she was
influential but no one could accuse her
of verbal recklessness; Mrs Abdusalami
Abubakar was a court judge, totally
self-effacing, No major social party was
complete without Mrs Stella Obasanjo,
yet she controlled her tongue. Mrs
Turai Yar’Adua was described as the
power behind the throne and she
proved that during the period of her
husband’s illness but she was carefully
reticent. At the state level, there was
Remi Tinubu in Lagos state and Onari
Duke in Cross River state who have
both conducted themselves
responsibly in and out of office. The
new First Lady likes to travel, party,
and talk outside the script. People are
beginning to learn to read her lips in
order to understand her husband.
Dame Patience must not push her
Goodluck.

Am very sure Abati will also come out to pursue a political post one day, and i will make reference to this bigoted and carcassism statement from the Liquor joint

“It is only a shameless man that
will turn around and accept to be
the political lackey of a man he
once openly accused of corruption
at various times between 2004 and
2007. Now that he has been used
and abused by the undemocratic
overlords that reign over the ACN
and fearing that he may soon be
dumped now that that vehicle is
about to be subsumed into the so
called All Progressives Congress,
Ribadu is desperately seeking fresh
relevance.

With my earlier post, what is the different between Ribadu and Abati? or who is the real shameless man?

Abati and Ribadu; A case study of political underdogs, one is domesticated and pampered while the other is freed and weird.

NIGERIANS HAVE NEVER LIKED THEIR PRESIDENTS . THEY RE STILL WAITING FOR A PRESIDENT THAT WILL SPOON FEED THEM . FOOLS . STOP INSULTING YOUR PRESIDENT ,
U DONT LIKE JONATHAN,
U WONT LIKE THE NEXT PRESIDENT EITHER.
U RE JUST BUNCH OF BITTER PEOPLE.
FACE REALITY
EUROPE'S ECONOMY IS ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE , RISE IN TAX , PEOPLE RE PROTESTING , ALL AROUND THE GLOBE NOTHING IS STABLE .

EVEN PEOPLE THAT DONT PAY TAX , WILL WAKE UP TO START INSULTING THEIR PRESIDENT.
HYPOCRITES!

Abati, please make sure you hammer well well with this government. Na beg i beg you. Because i dont think you can have a career again. Build schools, hospitals, internet cafe's. Any and everything, and pray you do not live long to see these fortunes dwindle. HMMM, Nigerians will never let you forget. And the people of Abeokuta may be throwing stones at you, and checking on your progress/failure so they can laugh. It is well with every hypocrite.

kbdrim: I honestly can't understand how abati has so fallen from the standards we all thought he had. I make bold to say he's been the worst media aide in the current political dispensation

My guy go find handiwork learn yu hear. So in ur village if someone defends his boss, then he's fallen frm de standard yu hv known him abi. If yu and ur dad are @ home and someone starts insulting ur fada yu are telling dis forum now dat yu will jus be quite and allow the insults. Yu must be high on cheap Alomo wit snoff. Ewu Gambia

Good one my Abati, pls labasts him d more!!!!!!!!