"The totally erroneous basis for that charge was
the spurious claim that Senator Sheriff
accompanied President Jonathan on his recent
trip to Ndjamena as a member of his entourage.
"Although Senator Sheriff himself has already
given the lie to that claim through his Media
Adviser, the Presidency wishes to affirm, for the
purpose of emphasis, that the former Borno
State governor was not on President Jonathan’s
delegation to Chad.
"In keeping with President Jonathan’s
commitment to transparency and openness in
the conduct of government business, names of
the key members of his delegation were
announced a day before his trip to Ndjamena.
They included the National Security Adviser, Col.
Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), the Minister of
Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola
Johnson, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs,
Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed and the Director-
General of National Space Research and
Development Agency, Prof. Seidu Mohammed.
"As can be easily verified from the complete list
of members of the Presidential entourage to
Chad which was also circulated on Sunday and
never changed, Senator Sheriff’s name was not
on it. The only other persons on the list were the
President’s aides, security personnel and
journalists.
"The APC and others who rushed to condemn
President Jonathan for a non-existent
indiscretion would have found, if they took the
least trouble to double-check, that there was
absolutely no factual basis for their accusation.
"Those who associate with Senator Sheriff know
that he has longstanding interests in Chad and
often spends a lot of his time there. He
happened to be in Ndjamena at the time of
President Jonathan’s visit and joined other
Nigerian residents of the Chadian capital in
coming to the airport to welcome their
President.
"That was the full extent of his participation in
the visit and it was also at Ndjamena Airport that
the pictures which formed the basis of the bogus
allegation of President Jonathan hobnobbing
with an “accused sponsor of terrorism” were
taken.
"The former governor’s presence in Chad was
certainly not at President Jonathan’s instance
and he did not participate in any of the
President’s discussions with President Idriss
Deby or his other engagements in Ndjamena.
"President Jonathan is fully aware of the
allegation made against Senator Sheriff by
Stephen Davis. That allegation is already being
investigated by the security agencies who will
make their findings known to the public in due
course.
"The president assures all Nigerians that he has
not willfully taken any action that could
prejudice the outcome of that ongoing inquiry.
"He seizes this opportunity to reassure the
nation once again of his total commitment to
doing all within his powers to bring all identified
and verified sponsors of terrorism to justice, and ending the menace of violent extremism in the country".

You don't keep exhibiting questionable actions then have to explain later. Its foolish and exasperating

reedbam: You don't keep exhibiting questionable actions then have to explain later. Its foolish and exasperating

indication of poor leadership

This is an insult to Nigeians, I swear....so, Jona coincidentally met Sheriff in the living room of the Chadian president!

Jona is a shameless LIAR!

arewanationz: This is an insult to Nigeians, I swear....so, Jona coincidentally met Sheriff in the living room of the Chadian president!

Jona is a shameless LIAR!

poor PR damage control

bappahman: poor PR damage control

GEJ definitely has a poor PR team.

They always leap before they look.

arewanationz:

GEJ definitely has a poor PR team.

They always leap before they look.

it was abati that released the 1st picture of GEJ with SAS

But some cankerworms saw nothing wrong with this.

This is the 2nd blow to TAN and OccupySocialMedia in less than 48 hours. They come online to shamelessly defend an obvious abnormally only for them to read few hours later that ASO ROCK is distancing its self from such abnormally.

If you are still still belong to the shameless TAN or the childish OccupySocialMedia, then u are a mega dunce. Is it not obvious that this guys are just using u only to back stab you later.

Nctrice: be it a tactics to always allow the opposition fumble first before the right impressions are been made to the public, I don't care! To me the presidential media team needs a complete overhaul!

How did opposition funble....i hope u dont blong to the category in yhe comment above

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The Devil heard of the lies Jonathan and his men tell in Nigeria, he shouted the Blood of Jesuuussssss!

Blind loyalty order of the day for some, if my mentor does something wrong, I should be able to see it and at most least keep quite if I can't oppose it, but blind loyalty makes me a zombie