Big brickbats were hurled across the political terrain yesterday with President Goodluck Jonathan threatening his former National Security Adviser, retired Lt-General Aliyu Mohamed Gusau, that he could also engage in political mudslinging.
The acrimonious presidential statement, signed by presidential spokesman Ima Niboro, was in reaction to a report, published by the rightwing American website WorldTribune, which alleged that “major payments are now being made to each of the delegates of the political parties, particularly the overwhelmingly large ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who decide the primary elections which then select the party candidate for the presidential elections in 2011.”
The report said “the incumbent President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, is bribing PDP delegates out of Federal Government funds, making most of the party delegates wealthy enough to buy a new home with the bribery funds.” The report also claimed that United States military strategists had said Jonathan gave $13,000 (about N2million) to each PDP delegate ahead of the party’s primaries.
The presidency statement said, “Our attention has been drawn to a report published in an online news medium, alleging that President Goodluck Jonathan plans to bribe yet-to-be identified PDP delegates with cash from Federal Government funds to influence his widely anticipated victory at the PDP primaries.
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