— Says president’s inaugural speech unpresidential
Contrary to encomiums showered on President Goodluck Jonathan by other delegates who spoke earlier, a delegate, Senator Hammeed Mohammed Aruwa, frankly expressed disappointment over the inaugural speech delivered by President Goodluck Jonathan, when the National Conference was inaugurated, saying the speech was “unpresidential”
The delegate also expressed disappointment in some of his colleagues who are professors, politicians, businessmen and women, who spoke earlier on President Jonathan’s speech for not telling the truth.
But in a swift reaction, another delegate, Dr. Yerima from Borno state raised a point of order asking Sen. Aruwa to apologise for using “a derogative statement on other delegates.”
The Kaduna delegate had said that he viewed President Jonathan as someone who was under severe pressure, adding that “I found in them some areas that was a strict warning.
“Mr. Chairman, it baffles me when we sit here and listen to some delegates talking about rewriting the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it baffles me when professors sit here and told us stories of what happened between the late Sardauna and the late Zik, and some of the things they said are far from truth.
“Mr. President spoke and what is contained on pages 20 and 21 of the Presidential speech were very instructive and until we arrive at answers to what he raised on those pages, I can assure you, we are having a talk shop here”.
