PRESIDENT JONATHAN NEVER ACCUSED FORMER SERVICE CHIEFS OF “UNNECESSARY COMPETITION”
Reports in the media yesterday which claimed that President Jonathan said during his visit to Yola on Tuesday that he “fired” former service chiefs because of “unhealthy competition” among them are untrue and misleading.
It appears that for reasons of mischief and reckless sensationalism, a section of the media deliberately chose to misrepresent the President’s innocuous and clear call for greater synergy and inter-service cooperation in the war against terrorism.
President Jonathan did not at anytime during his remarks in Yola say that the former chiefs were guilty of undue rivalry, nor did he say, as claimed by some newspapers, that such unhealthy rivalry was responsible for recent security breaches in Adamawa and other parts of the country.
As Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces and Chief Security Officer of the Federation, President Jonathan is fully aware of the importance and sensitivity of all defence and security-related matters. If he had any reprimand or admonition for the former service chiefs, which he does not, he would not have cavalierly given it at a public function as the media falsely reported.
The President has nothing but praise for the manner in which the outgoing service chiefs did their job in very challenging circumstances and he did not in the course of his remarks in Yola suggest or imply that any wrongdoing, lack of cooperation or unhealthy competition was reason for the recent changes in the Military High Command.
Members of the Armed Forces and all objective observers know that such changes are routine and in the interest of the growth and well-being of the Armed Services.
President Jonathan has no need therefore to justify the recent changes to anyone and the recourse by the media to a totally off-the-mark interpretation of his remarks in Yola to explain the changes was most unnecessary and pointless.
Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
January 30, 2014
Ihekire Tony
ReplyDeleteSome group of animal, that calls themselves APC, will always misinterprete whatever the president says or does.
Kkkkkkkkkk!
ReplyDeleteI saw it live!!he said it.d tape can be replayed.ait and channels cxovered it.dis is not d first timer nor will it be d last dat whenever d presido goofs reuben will come to deny and give his own interpretation to d obvious
ReplyDeleteStella, have you deactivated your Twitter account? I can't find you there.
ReplyDeleteWhere are all your keyboard warriors? They won't comment here. Dumb people.
Anyway, Stella, please note Aku or whatever its name is has been abusing me as an anonymous. Ask me how I know? It's not hard to source the jealous goat out.
I remember correcting the fool on the difference between homosexuality and paedophilia and instead of it to learn from that, the abuses have been coming in since. Go back and read its posts as Aku, and then go back and read the abuses when I comment, it's not hard to see the similarities, same use of symbols and abusive Igbo words. Aku also has another blog name and this name is one of the attention seekers on this blog. This other blog name signs in with a blogger.com account and behaves holier than thou.
I won't make further comments, Stella. Even if you don't post this, you have read it.