What President Jonathan Said at His Last Valedictory Session in Abuja

President Goodluck Jonathan said quite a number of things on his last Valedictory session with his ministers. Amongst the things outgoing president urged President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on was, not to single out his administration in any probe he may want to carry out after his inauguration on Friday.

His Words, “Some people are even calling for the probe of this government. I agree that in Nigeria, there are a number of things that we will probe; very many things.“Even debts owed by states and this nation from 1960 up to this time. They are saying it is Jonathan’s administration that is owing all the debts.“I believe that anybody calling for probe must ensure that these probes are extended beyond the Jonathan administration, otherwise to me, it will be a witch-hunt. If you are very sincere, then it is not just the Jonathan’s administration that should be probed.“A number of things have gone wrong and we have done our best to fix them. The Attorney General is aware of the massive judgement debts, if we aggregate all of them, it is about $1bn. How did we come to this kind of huge judgement debts? These issues should be probed.“How do you allocate our oil wells, oil fields, marginal wells and others? Do we follow our laws? All these should be probed. I believe all these and many more areas should be looked at.”“Even this last fuel scarcity, to me one can clearly say it was an act of sabotage. This government has few days to go, that is definitely not the time you expect massive strikes, using marketers and unions. Unions asking for increase in salaries at a time oil prices have dropped and volumes have dropped,” he said.

The President made it clear that he had not dissolved his cabinet as all ministers were expected to attend the inauguration dinner on today,Thursday in their official capacity.
The Vice-President, Namadi Sambo, who thanked Jonathan for finding him worthy to be his running mate in 2011 and 2015 promised to remain a member of the Jonathan family and his ambassador anywhere he found himself adding that he did not at any time lobby his position.
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), said the administration had impacted on the lives of millions of Nigerians.