Former
President Goodluck Jonathan has said there is no bone of contention between him
and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.
Rather,
Jonathan stated that Amaechi had a problem with his wife, Patience, which he
(Jonathan) tried in vain to resolve.
Jonathan’s
disclosed this in a book titled, ‘Against the Run of Play,’ written by the
Chairman, Editorial Board of ThisDay, Olusegun Adeniyi.
“Jonathan
told me that Amaechi’s problem was not with him but rather with his wife and
that, at a point, he tried to reconcile them,” the book stated.
While
Amaechi admitted that he was at loggerheads with Patience, he said Jonathan was
not saying the whole truth, noting that there were also disagreements between
him and Jonathan, during the latter’s era as the President.
The
ex-Rivers State governor attributed the cause of his grudge with Jonathan to
illegal and excess deduction from the federation account by the former president.
He
said, “I could not surrender my mandate to a woman (Patience) in Abuja, even if
such a person was the wife of the President…that basically was my sin with Dame
Patience Jonathan.
“If
in one year, you took about N300bn from the federation account to pay for
subsidy and the next year, you are taking almost N2tn for the same thing when
fundamentals had not changed, then serious questions should be asked.
“And
as NGF (Nigerian Governors Forum) chairman, it was my responsibility to ask
those questions and Jonathan took them personal.”
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