By Success Nwogu Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he never spoke on the position of Niger Delta over agitations ...
By Success Nwogu
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he never
spoke on the position of Niger Delta over agitations for Biafra.
Jonathan, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr Ikechukwu
Eze, on Saturday also disowned an online publication which claimed that he
spoke on the relationship between the South East and Niger Delta.
The report was said to have also claimed that Jonathan spoke
on the position of Niger Delta over agitations for Biafra in a speech he was
said to have presented recently in Texas, United States.
The former president
described the report as false, adding that he couldn’t have presented the
purported speech because he neither travelled to the US nor sent anybody to
represent him at the unnamed event.
Eze said it was the second time in three years that Jonathan
would be issuing a disclaimer on the purported speech and blamed the
development on the effort of some “unscrupulous people” to tarnish Jonathan’s
image.
He said, “Our
attention has been drawn to a fake story with the title, ‘Why Niger Deltans
don’t want to be part of Biafra’ currently circulating online and purported to
have been taken from a speech allegedly presented by former President Dr
Goodluck Jonathan at an unnamed event in Texas, the United States.
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“We thought we had finally dealt with the issue of this
falsehood with our timely and well publicised disclaimer, soon after the
supposed speech first surfaced online in 2017. However, it beggars belief that
the same jejune and disastrous effort at speech writing, hatched by some
yet-to-be-identified shady character, is again being served to the social media
public as a fresh dish.
He added, “We want to clearly state, as we did in 2017, that
there was no such event involving the former President and that Dr Goodluck
Jonathan will never present such a sloppy and hate-filled speech.
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