A CHAT WITH GEJ

Mr president was grilled by press men last night for over three hours on current national issues. Many waited to hear from the president a lot of fire, but GEJ in his usual manner virtually smiled till the end. Here is a summary of some of the issues;

Corruption; the president called the attention of Nigerians to the broad use of the word 'corruption' as most of the cases were merely those of stealing and nothing more, which would have been dealt appropriate but for the slow process of the judiciary. Here said there was a thin line between corruption and stealing and Nigerians should stop inter changing stealing for corruption.

Ministers: Mr GEJ, said one the issue of corruption cases of ministers, he said he gets direct and indirect reports daily on ministers conducts, and if he were to fire on every tip, ministers would be changed everyday, he laid reference on foreign nations where minister span up to ten years in power.
ii. On the petroleum minister and her court injunction barring the parliament from looking into her issue, the president denied been aware of such, but reiterated that the petroleum ministry had been one of the ministries that had been operating on jets, that it could be that the cost of hiring was much more economical than maintaining her own jets. And also stressed that ministers were spending over 25 percent of their working hours in the parliament.

Chibok girls; he urged Nigerians to be patient that the government is on the matter, later in the news it was reported that a meeting between the principal, waec officials and the presidency were in a meeting.

WEF (world Economic forum); Abuja would light up, as Nigeria hosts the world on behalf of Africa, as investors around the world gathers in Abuja on wednesday through friday, the President said this would have a direct impact on Nigeria in times to come, as investors would have a first hand experience to Nigeria. And he said about two have dedicated interest n investing. And this would help create employment.

Rebased Economy; he said there was nothing magical about the rebased GDP, he said it was merely taking stock of what we had, that the last time the economy was rebased, major players like Nollywood were not in existence, so there was nothing like 'okonjonomics' as many have cried.

Inec budget; he assured Nigerians whether inec's budget was cut down by parliament or not, that Nigerians should expect Inec to deliever on credible elections in the Nation.

Second term Declaration; he said, Nigerian should be concerned with good governance, free and fair elections and other things that come with governance and not his second term aspirations.

And other issues which were placed on the front burner.

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