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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