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.
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