President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said there was no truth in the claim by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that he offered the former Lagos State governor the chance to serve as Vice President in a proposed Interim National Government.
Jonathan, who spoke with State House journalists in Abuja through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, described Tinubu’s claim as strange and outrageous.
Tinubu had in a statement by his media office on Thursday claimed that the recent attacks on his person were because he rejected the offer by Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an ING.
He claimed that having refused the offer, the President was looking for ways to take him out either by killing him or getting him arrested based on trumped up charges.
But Abati insisted that the position of Jonathan had remained that the idea of an ING is treasonable.
He said the President had made it clear that he had neither proposed the idea at any forum nor discussed it with anybody.
He added that as a democratically elected President, Jonathan’s ambition could never be to head an ING under whatever circumstances.
The presidential spokesman said Jonathan was going into the March 28 presidential election with the conviction that he had performed well and majority of Nigerians would vote for him massively.
He explained that the President therefore had no reason whatsoever to support such an unconstitutional proposition as ING, which would amount to assault on democratic principles.
He said, “If you de-construct the statement that purportedly emanated from the office of Asiwaju Tinubu, you will see again the absurd nature of it.
“The absolutely ridiculous nature of it in the sense that given the configuration of Nigeria, it is not likely, totally impossible to have an ING arrangement in which you will have a southerner as the President and then another southerner as Vice President.
“It is absurd. It is not something that is likely to work given the nature of our politics.
“But the Tinubu camp putting out that statement, were so much in a hurry to engage in their usual game of deceiving the public about the current electoral process, that the emptiness, the hollowness, the shallowness of their proposition escaped them.”
Abati appealed to Nigerians to dismiss Tinubu’s claim as “another gimmick coming from a desperate political group seeing that defeat is steering them in the face and are resorting to greater desperation.”
He said Nigerians might witness greater desperation from the opposition’s camp as the nation gets closer to the general elections.
“But our appeal to Nigerians is that this country is greater than everyone’s ambition and at the end of the day what is important is Nigeria. “

Story for the gods...

Even if you dis,i wouldn't have expected you to open up...
Plus with all the tales you have told us in times past,your word doesn't hold for much anymore...

Gej, Mr. LIEnus.

GEJ,you can't trust folks like Tinubu.

He's from Lagos the land of double dealers,sweet talkers and conniving hustlerz.He will double cross you.

They said Jonathan sponsored Ekiti rigging.
The "clueless" spoke in denial of involvement.

They said he used King of Morroco to curry favor and divide citizens along religious line.
The "clueless" spoke and said he had no knowledge of it.

They said he offered Tinubu a ING position to weaken opposition.
The "clueless" one spoke and said he believes in democracy.

In two weeks we shall speak!

We shall raise our conscience and speak in denial of the "clueless".

Just wait...

We know na, some lies are not meant to be answered

Tinubu is just playing Area boy's game with Mr. President. Now that he has seen GEJ to be not only clueful but smarter and more intelligent than him and his goons he should advise Buhari to step down from the race and before it is too late.

Mr outgoing president,If you had, would you have told us?...mtcheew

How do you want us (Nigerians) to believe you. You tell lies like a primary school pupil. There's no a single element of truth in you GEJ. You are a liar. You don't need to lie you actually offered him and Abubakar.

COMING FROM A MAN WHO LIED THAT HE SPOKE TO MOROCCO KING?
WHO LIED HE KNOWS NOTIN ABOUT ELECTION POSTPONEMENT
WHO LIED THE EKITIGATE IS FAKE
BELIEVE HIM AT YOUR OWN LOSS.

Some called him clueless, some said he is corrupt and others said he is a liar, in as much as there is no concrete evidences in all the allegations, who is of no sins should cast the first stone.

Meanwhile, I think opposition has not been fair to this government, no other government has performed more than this man. Buhari himself might not be in charge of his government if he got there, he is surrounded by many ambitious politicians.

Mr Denial, no one expected you to say you did so there's no point talking about it at all.

One day you would deny your own name.

I didn't expect you to say you did.
And I didn't believe tinubu either.

You can't turn me to crazeman wey go now dey wonder whether na true or false anyone of u dey talk

Source or is a lie.

Oga jona forget that shameless LAGOS BIGGEST THIEV !