Former President Goodluck Jonathan has warned the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed to stop blaming his administration for the failure of the present one.
He also advised Buhari never to extend the military show of force to the South South and the South West through Operation Crocodile Smile as earlier planned, saying Nigeria is no longer under military rule.
This was in response to a press briefing given by Mohammed in Lagos where he placed the blame for the woes of the nation on the outgone administration.
Mohammed also accused opposition politicians of being the cash bags behind the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Nnamdi Kanu.
Taking to his Facebook page, the former president said the military is not meant to fight criminality within a nation, adding that they are trained to fight a nation’s external enemies.
He added that Mohammed saying Kanu preached Nigerian unity during the Jonathan administration is another clear indication that he (Mohammed) is a propagandist.
Identify IPOB sponsors
Jonathan challenged Mohammed to identify the opposition politicians sponsoring IPOB, and proceed to arrest and prosecute them.
The post reads: “The insinuations in the press conference given by Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, on Sunday the 17th of September 2017, accusing the opposition of sponsoring the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the fact that he mentioned that Nnamdi Kanu preached Nigerian unity during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan is another clear indication that the present administration has not left propaganda mode for proper agenda mode two and a half year into their tenure.”
“Ever since Lai Mohammed made his ill-advised statement, a principal member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) government and the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, had come out to say that the actions in the Southeast are troubling and some of it are unconstitutional. Is he also sponsoring IPOB too?
“It is our suspicion that Lai Mohammed is talking from history seeing as he criticized the Jonathan government for banning Boko Haram in a statement he released on June 10, 2013, even though the Jonathan government had gone through due process before proscribing that murderous sect.
“Let me say again to Lai Mohammed, the time for propaganda is gone. The time for blaming Dr. Goodluck Jonathan for all the unfulfilled promises of the APC government is over. Nigerians are no longer buying it.”
