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August 20, 2013

Five northern govs lack respect for Jonathan – Gulak

Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak

Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak

 Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, on Monday accused the five northern governors, who recently embarked on a nation-wide consultations on the country’s state of affairs, of disrespecting President Goodluck Jonathan.


The state governors are Sule Lamido (Jigawa),  Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto),  Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa). Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was named the sixth disrespecting state governor by Gulak.

The Presidential aide, in a statement by his Political Affairs Assistant, Godwin Akpovie, was reacting to a statement credited to Lamido, in which he described Gulak as “a boy.”

The governor had taken on Gulak for asking them to settle whatever differences that existed between them and the President within, instead of embarking on national consultations.

Apparently offended by the statement, Lamido described it as “offensive and disrespectful,” calling Gulak a “boy.”

But Gulak on Monday wondered why the governor was in search of respect when he and his other colleagues had not shown respect to the President.

 He said, “The other day, in company with some other governors, led by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, they (the five northern governors) walked leisurely into a function in which President Jonathan was already seated.

“Is that not an affront to the office of Mr. President? How many of them will allow their commissioners to walk into a function in which they are already seated?

“As part of resolving their so-called differences with Mr. President, they are demanding the sacking of some key personnel in Mr. President’s administration, including Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the National Chairman of the Peoples Demoratic Party.

“Again, can anybody, including Mr. President, order them to appoint so and so individuals as commissioners in their respective states?”

He said the governors kept mum when the interim chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, called Jonathan a ‘kindergarten’ President.

“If l may ask; are they still members of the PDP? If they still are, why are they more critical of the President than even the opposition?

“Respect is reciprocal. Anyone who wants to propagate equity must come with clean hands. You cannot demand respect when you refuse to accord same to a higher office.

“Besides, what is disrespectful in advising that it is more decent to explore and exhaust all internal mechanisms to resolve any perceived grievances?” He queried.

Gulak claimed that he was already the Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly when Lamido was just a State Coordinator in the Olu Falae Presidential Campaign Organisation.

 

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