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Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by nellyxyz: 10:32am On Sep 10, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday came under fire over the presence of a former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu-Sheriff, at a meeting he held with Chadian President Idris Deby in Ndjamena on Monday.

The President’s spokesman, Dr. Rueben Abati, had in a statement on Sunday said that Jonathan was travelling to Chad to discuss how to combat insurgency in Nigeria with Deby.

A picture on Abati’s twitter handle early on Tuesday showed that Modu-Sheriff was present at the Ndjamena meeting.

Among those that berated the President were the opposition All Progressives Congress, lawyers and civil society groups.

Their anger was predicated on the fact that the former governor was recently accused by an Australian hostage negotiator, Steven Davis, of allegedly sponsoring Boko Haram.

Shortly after the allegation, there were calls by the All Progressives Congress and some civil society groups for the arrest and prosecution of Sheriff.

Last Thursday, the Department of State Security invited the former governor to defend the allegations.

But when the picture of the Ndjamena meeting surfaced, the APC slammed Jonathan for hobnobbing with the ex- governor.

The APC , in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, demanded an explanation from the Presidency.

It accused the President of exhibiting a shocking act of indiscretion by hobnobbing with Sheriff who is not known to have been investigated and cleared of the allegation against him.

The party wondered what message Jonathan was sending to his compatriots and indeed the international community by taking Sheriff to Chad for a meeting against terrorism.

The statement partly read, “This action by President Jonathan confirms what the APC has always believed: That he either knows more than he is willing to admit on the issue of those who are behind the Boko Haram insurgency or he is willing to sacrifice the battle against terrorism on the altar of political expediency.

“Either way, this action by the President is the height of indiscretion at best, or a palpable exhibition of callowness at worst.

“It also confirms our fears that Sheriff was planted as a mole in the APC by his friends in high places, who are jittery about the birth of the party and would do anything to destabilise it.”

The APC said the President could not pretend not to be aware of a report sent home by Nigeria’s Defence Adviser in Ndjamena in 2011, detailing the suspicious activities of Sheriff and asking the Federal Government to investigate him.

The party said if this was a joke, it is one too far, especially at a time that Nigeria had been losing some of its territories to Boko Haram.

The APC said it was apparent that Jonathan smuggled Sheriff into his entourage, as the official statement announcing the trip, never mentioned he would accompany the President .

Mohammed said nobody in Nigeria would have known of this unholy alliance carried too far if not that the picture of the President, his host and the former governor surfaced via Twitter.

It said the President should explain what he knows about the allegations that Sheriff and a former Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, were Boko Haram sponsors.

The APC wondered why the Jonathan administration had not handed both men to the International Criminal Court for investigation and possible prosecution.

Also, lawyers like Femi Falana, Fred Agbaje, Jiti Ogunye, Festus Keyamo and Monday Ubani said the presence of the former governor at the Ndjamena meeting was inexplicable.

A former Borno State Commissioner for Information , Mr. Inuwa Bwala, however, dismissed the allegations against Sheriff.

Bwala described the APC statement as a celebrating of falsehood.

He told one of our correspondents in a telephone interview that the party had yet to get over Sheriff’s loss to the ruling PDP.

The former Commissioner said it was mischievous for the APC to claim that Sheriff was part of the President’s entourage when indeed he (Sheriff) was among several Nigerians who received the President at the airport in Chad.

Bawala said, “The APC is celebrating falsehood. This is the height of their desperation and mischief all targeted at diverting public attention from the truth.

“Answers to the Boko Haram puzzle are within the ranks of the APC and very soon Nigerians will know them because their activities will soon be exposed.

“Senator Sheriff is a Nigerian who is doing business in Chad – he is prospecting for oil.

“Long before the President’s visit, he had been doing business there. As a loyal party member, there is nothing wrong if he joins people to receive the President in a country he is doing business in.”

But lawyers like Femi Falana, Fred Agbaje, Jiti Ogunye, Festus Keyamo and Monday Ubani said the presence of the former governor at the Ndjamena meeting was inexplicable.

Falana, a human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria told one of our correspondents that the inclusion of Sheriff on the President’s entourage was the height of insensitivity.

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Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by solomonbrown64: 10:37am On Sep 10, 2014
......This APC party gaaan....they just criticise blindly sometimes......mtcheew...
Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by 99100(m): 10:54am On Sep 10, 2014
The critic is baseless.

GEJ has the right to move with whoever he wishes to do so with.
Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by size38: 10:56am On Sep 10, 2014
The same Modu Sheriff that the PDP keep accusing of being behind Boko Haram when he was in APC has suddenly became a saint now that he has defected to the PDP for reasons best known to him? PDP is behind Boko Haram that is why GEJ has not been able to catch and prosecute any one since Boko Haram started killing and destroying lives in Nigeria. because the people behind boko haram are all PDP members GEJ hands are tied. Till GEJ's tenure is over, nobody will be tried or prosecuted

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Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by koboko66: 11:11am On Sep 10, 2014
solomonbrown64: ......This APC party gaaan....they just criticise blindly sometimes......mtcheew...
99100: The critic is baseless.

GEJ has the right to move with whoever he wishes to do so with.

Petty hypocrites!

Is it right for Mr president to be moving around with a terror suspect. Nigerians will never move forward with some kind of citizens she has.
Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by 99100(m): 12:10pm On Sep 10, 2014
koboko66:

Petty hypocrites!

Is it right for Mr president to be moving around with a terror suspect. Nigerians will never move forward with some kind of citizens she has.

The bolded best describes your types. U see every thing wrong with each and every step Mr president takes due to hypocrisy,ethnic bigotry and party partisanship.

First remove the log in your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck in.........
Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by koboko66: 12:13pm On Sep 10, 2014
99100:

The bolded best describes your types. U see every thing wrong with each and every step Mr president takes due to hypocrisy,ethnic bigotry and party partisanship.

First remove the log in your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck in.........

Tribal what? That is ur own pathetic state not mine. Im a south Southerner so how does ethnic bigotry affect me. Its ur likes that it affects. Why did u ignore the question before what u bolded. Hypocrite.
Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by Onyejiuwaokoh: 12:25pm On Sep 10, 2014
It pains me the way our people are politizing this national disaster because of political power acquisition and publicity.We all know that this people have branches all over the world, they are pounding Iraq, Syria,Somalia and other nations with different names but with the same goal (jihad) How can somebody like Ihejirika, Jonathan and some others who have no link to Islam could be their sponsors?It is better we leave politics apart and work together to fight this people before they consume all of us.
Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by lilprinze: 12:30pm On Sep 10, 2014
APC are just bunch of hypocrites who just open their dirty mouth to criticize blindly and foolishly .
Re: Jonathan Under Attack For Visiting Chad With Sheriff - Is It Right by 99100(m): 12:39pm On Sep 10, 2014
koboko66:

Tribal what? That is ur own pathetic state not mine. Im a south Southerner so how does ethnic bigotry affect me. Its ur likes that it affects. Why did u ignore the question before what u bolded. Hypocrite.

The so called negotiator is such a junky persona non grata whose so called allegation must not be taken serious. Less I forget, why do you people (Apc touts) chose to ignore the part of the allegation that indicted so many APC members but declined to given names?

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