President Goodluck Jonathan advised the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, not to probe only his administration after his inauguration on May 29. He must also extend the probe beyond his regime or else, the probe will be seen as a witch-hunt.
Jonathan said . . .
“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.”
Jonathan said regardless of what critics might say about his administration, he and his team had done well under a difficult situation.
He advised those who criticise him to endeavour to compare his administration’s performance with those of the administrations before him on a sector-by-sector basis.
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