A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu has described the Special Adviser on
Media and Publicity to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reuben Abati as a
desperate personality, a fraud and someone who lacks ‘the simplest level
of media literacy.’
Reacting to a statement credited to Mr Abati,
in which the presidential spokesman referred to his views at a lecture
in Kaduna last weekend as hypocritical and self-serving, Mr Ribadu
accused the presidential aide of standing on “crooked crutches of
rehashed falsehoods fabricated by corrupt politicians.”
Mr Ribadu, at a lecture in Kaduna on Saturday, was said to have
declared that Nigeria is a “sinking ship” under President Jonathan with
the yearnings of the masses being neglected by a tyrannical leadership.
Mr Abati had on Monday released a statement where he faulted Mr Ribadu’s views describing them as hypocritical and self-serving.
Read Mr Ribadu’s statement below:
Reuben Abati’s statement, typical of his increasingly desperate
personality, has exposed him as a fraud of a presidential spokesman who
does not have the simplest level of media literacy.
It is unfortunate that he stands on crooked crutches of rehashed
falsehoods fabricated by corrupt politicians prosecuted by Mallam Nuhu
Ribadu, in his desperate attempt to hold on to his job.
His conjectured statement is a sad commentary on the type of people
we have in the helms of our affairs: even with the resources at his
disposal, Abati could not conduct a little research to save himself from
embarrassment before he set out barking.
It is a huge gaffe for Abati to charge Ribadu of ingratitude as the
latter has more valid stand to make similar accusation having been
betrayed after his selfless service to the nation in the Petroleum
Revenue Task Force committee. The question of who is ethically
challenged, however, is left for Nigerians to answer.
Click on the link below to read Abati's statement about Ribadu
http://umezeigwe.blogspot.com/2013/06/ribadu-is-hypocrite-presidency.html#more
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