Hardworking president Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan has reacted to rumour being peddled by some unscrupulous elements that he hates northerners.
The transformation president told Alhaji Tanko Yakassai who led a delegation of Northern Elders Council Members that those spreading the wicked rumour are unfair to him. Hear him: “Some people say Jonathan hates the north. I have heard that statement and I used to ask vice president Namadi Sambo, they say I hate the north but you are here. I ask the National Security Adviser and my Principal Secretary the same thing. Infact, my Principal now, have been my Principal Secretary since I was deputy governor. I never knew I was going to come here as vice president not to talk of president. But I have known him since I was the deputy governor of Bayelsa State.
My Chief Detail from Borno State has been with me since I was a deputy governor in Yenagoa and I see him as a good person and I carried him along with me. So I had to ask how can somebody wake up and say I hate the north? Out of the 12 federal universities my administration set up, nine are in the north while three are in the south. If I hate the north would I have done that?”