In this interview with Punch Nigeria newspaper, Kukah talked extensively about the role Jonathan played both as a president, in maintaining peace in the post-2015 election era, and more. When the journalist asked how Kukah would rate former president Jonathan’s performance, he said Jonthan has made history and rather just summarizing it in few words, it it a subject that deserve to be in many books.
Reacting to setting up anti-graft body to probe all past corrupt officers, Kukah said President Buhari need to define the method which he want to use to fight corruption. He also said that former presidents will not just watch Jonathan without giving him the needed shelter in time of trouble.
“Personally, I have not expressed concerns beyond the fact that due process is important and must define how we go. I am still convinced that we do not need to hear so much lamentation because the case has already been made. It is quite sad that the media has deliberately continued to distort this issue of probe. I do not know where the media got and started spreading this baseless rumour about our committee, for example, pleading on behalf of former President Jonathan not to be probed. Since he left government, I have neither spoken with nor seen ex-President Jonathan until we met him on Tuesday (penultimate week). In our discussion with him, he stated clearly that he was not against any probe but he was pained by what seemed to be like acts of victimisation and persecution. Jonathan is a former President and if he needs shelter, his brother former presidents are there and alive. And they are in a better position to protect the office of a former president with the architecture of respect and integrity. We must be careful not to play into the hands of those dictators who, for fear of persecution and humiliation, have decided to cling on to power at all cost and at the risk of destroying their people.”
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