Goodluck Jonathan did not believe in 2014 Confab report - legal expert

Goodluck Jonathan did not believe in 2014 Confab report - legal expert

 

 

Immediate past president, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been accused of not believing in the report and recommendations of the 2014 national constitutional conference, and putting his personal interest above national interest which inform his refusal to sign the report to law before his exit as president of the country.

This was disclosed by a legal practitioner and public affairs analyst Bily Dawodu in a chat with DailyTimes, noting that the  former president had enough time to sign the document into law before leaving office as president if he believed in the report.

He berated the former president for his decision to sign the document after his re-election, adding that the president was not sincere and would not have signed the report if he had won the election.

The legal practitioner stressed that president Buhari should not be blamed for his refusal to sign the document adding that it was the former president that had the moral right to sign the document after spending several billions to set it up.

According to Dawodu, "It was Jonathan that set up the 2014 confab why did he not sign it?. If he believed in it he should have signed it an leave the implementation to his successor. If he had signed it and Buhari failed to implement it then we can talk and we could have blamed Buhari. It is wrong for anybody to blame Buhari, it was Jonathan who set up that conference".

Jonathan chose the delegates and spent billions on it; they sent the report to him and he had enough time to sign the report, rather than signed, he was going round the country deceiving the people that if he win re-election he was going to sign".

"The people talking now should call him and ask him why he did not sign the Confab report into law. Jonathan should be blame the press are not been fair to Buhari at all. Dawodu. Added.

Speaking further on the legality of freezing the Ekiti state governor Ayodele Fayoshe account by the Economy and financial commission (EFCC) the public affairs analyses said the commission had the legal backing to investigate and any serving Governor,adding that what the EFCC did was in accordance with the law.

"The constitution only grants Governors immunity from prosecution and not from investigation If he has committed any offense he can be investigated they are not taking his immunity they are investigating him, if he as committed the crime".

"If they trace illegal funds they have the right to freez the account. The EFCC as the power to investigate
any crime even the president, the only immunity he as is that he cannot be prosecuted while in office".

Source-- Iniobong Iwok (DailyTimes)