A body known as the Corporate Friends of President Jonathan (CFPJ)
has replied the president in his recent statement that his friends have
abandoned him after losing the election in March.
The group told Expdonaloaded blog in Abuja yesterday that with the massive
support they gave the president, they did not expect that the
administration would not fulfill its promises of making some core
sectors viable.
The body said: “We had high hopes that the power sector would be made
reliable. That total deregulation of the oil and gas downstream sector
would have been a reality and that incentives would be provided to make
the economy pick up faster. But after all these, all we got were
promises. There are many of us that did works for the government and
have not been paid even when we have access to facts of the economy that
the Federal Government has the capacity to pay..post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com..“Some of us have even contacted the president in person because he
knows many of us. We felt the government was for all of us and for
better economy at the beginning.”and that is why we raised funds to support his administration and
re-election, but we never got any positive response or reward even when
we were promised and also expected speedy re-invention of the economy.”
Presenting a statement of the body, Mr. Damian Onyeoma and Chief
Ehizojie Godson, who signed it stated: “If that is the fate of key
economy players that supported the president, most of whom would not
want their names mentioned, we believe the same would have happened to
politicians who were close to the president.”Onyeoma and Godson said many people that devoted their time and other
resources to support Jonathan were abandoned and most of them owed huge
amount of money in contracts, oil subsidy payments and other services.
When many have approached him and written the Finance Minister, nobody
listened to them and Mr. President acts like he is unable to order the
ministry to pay them even when they have the documents to back their
claims, yet those that do shady deals are paid.
“That must be the reason the PDP national Chairman has said severally
that the party and Mr. President should drop the use-and-discard
culture and reward those that genuinely work for the growth of the
nation.”
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