TO THE CRITICS! If you attack Government, you become insulated- GEJ tells Critics

It would seem that President Goodluck Jonathan is a firm believer in the ‘he who comes to equity must come with clean hands’ saying, well who isn’t?

He’s just said that a good number of his critics are corrupt. Ok?

Well, he spoke shortly after swearing in the chairman and two members of the National Population Commission; a member of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission; and two special advisers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Senator Suleiman Ajadi (National Assembly) and Ambassador Fidelia Njeze (New Partnership for African Development)

The President said, “The society is so funny that these days, anybody who wants to claim any element of credibility at all will go to the television and accuse government of corruption, that the President’s body language shows that he is not fighting corruption or that he is not ready to fight corruption.

“Sometimes, even the very corrupt people are those making these statements because if you attack government you are insulated, you become an angel.

“If you want to be an angel, just attack the government, whatever you have done is covered.”

True?

Mr President has been heavily criticised on his stand against corruption by civil society, politicians, pretty much everyone. At an event organised by the Nigerian Bar Association to mark the 2013 International Anti-corruption Day in Abuja on December 9, 2013, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, in a scathing remark recently, said the ‘body language’ of the President showed that he was not interested in fighting the scourge of corruption.

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