Episodes from the Jonathan era can fill books – Presidency

Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, has urged Nigerians to direct their anger to the “right quarters”.

Sheu lamented the level of corruption in the previous administration, explaining that decisions made by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan led to the coutry’s present woes.

According to Sheu, “episodes from the Jonathan era can fill books.”

In a piece entitled: ‘What is President Buhari doing with the economy?’, Shehu attributed the poor situation of things to years of mismanagement and corruption.

“Nigerians are right to be disappointed but they must direct their anger at the right quarters. The bad management and corruption of the past are firmly to blame,” he wrote.

“People are still talking about who ran governments in 1865, you want us to forget those who left government last year?

“Let us keep a fiery memory of the past so that we don’t repeat its mistakes. Look back, look ahead. The future must of necessity be built on the foundations of the past,” he said.

“To avoid repeating the past mistakes, Nigerians must come to terms with what went wrong with the past, how bad were things, what was done wrongly, what the past government should have done, before we come to what needs to be done to right those wrongs.

“Believe me, episodes from the Jonathan era can fill books, and other possibilities such as courtroom drama thriller.”