Former President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has been lambasted by Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State on his recent comment on the N2billion Ecological Fund granted PDP states during his tenure.  He spoke through his Media Aide, Samuel Aruwan:

“Jonathan is not a man that can take responsibility for anything. In March 2015, not long after making concession call to President Buhari, he summoned his pecks and asked them to reject the result of an election whose winner he had congratulated in private. That effort and publicity failed spectacularly and the will of people prevailed.”

“So no one should be surprised that he is denying presiding over the discrete distribution of the ecological funds. His denial begs the question, what special circumstance ensured that only states that were controlled by the PDP and its allied parties qualified for the N2 billion each.”

“Jonathan cannot argue with fact that the payment are in the record of ecological fund. He knowingly engaged in discriminatory disbursement of federal fund; the legality of that is open to question.”

“The former president’s argument that money was also disbursed for the Green Wall Project in some northern states is disingenuous. Jonathan had failed in his response, to show where he lied regarding the disbursement of N2 billion to each of the affected states as contained in the NEC interim report on the utilisation of the Ecological Fund. I want to remind the former president that the investigation being carried out is at the instance of NEC and not a personal initiative.”