Report that Goodluck Jonathan collected N300m and bulletproof cars from the 2019 Bayelsa State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr David Lyon, has drawn the response of the former President.
A group, the APC Reformation Forum, had asked Jonathan to return the said sum and cars he was allegedly gifted by Lyon to prepare for the latter’s botched inauguration as governor.
The ex-President in a statement his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze released discountenanced it saying the claim was a figment of the group’s imagination intended to disparage Jonathan.
The statement reads in part: “We make bold to state that there is no vehicle in the possession of former President Jonathan given to him by the APC. This is an insufferable lie. If anyone on earth knows of such a vehicle, they should expose the particulars of the said vehicle to the public.
“The claim by this group is therefore nothing but a fairy-tale scripted to tarnish the good reputation of the former President whom Nigerians and the rest of the world hold in very high esteem.
“We condemn in entirety this growing culture of sustained falsehood against the person and family of Dr Jonathan by shady and shadowy characters. We urge Bayelsans and Nigerians to disregard the story as it contains no grain of truth.”
