{"id":5500,"date":"2020-03-11T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2020-03-11T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:53:00","slug":"i-didnt-receive-n300m-bullet-proof-cars-from-lyon-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5500","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t receive N300m, bullet proof cars from Lyon- Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ex -President Goodluck Jonathan has refuted social media reports that he received N300 million and bullet proof cars from Mr David Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan, who made the rebuttal in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr Ikechukwu Eze, on Wednesday in Yenagoa, described the allegations as \u201cpatently fictitious, malevolent, inciting and provocative\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the former President, the story is planted in the social media by a nebulous group known as \u201cReformation Forum\u201d which claims links with the APC in Bayelsa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the group was calling for the refund of the alleged N300 million and bullet proof cars, which were allegedly given to him to cater for guests during the planned inauguration of Lyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group had alleged that the gifts were delivered to the former president prior to the annulment of Lyon\u2019s victory by the apex court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cThe story which claimed that the alleged money and vehicles were part of logistics given to Dr Jonathan\u2019s family to cater for their guests ahead of the botched inauguration is not only patently fictitious but malevolent, inciting and provocative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the first place there was no reason for APC or anybody else to offer money and vehicles to the former president for logistics over an inauguration programme in which he was not involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe make bold to state that there is no vehicle in the possession of former President Jonathan given to him by the All Progressives Congress. This is an insufferable lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf anyone on earth knows of such a vehicle, they should expose the particulars of the said vehicle to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe condemn in entirety this growing culture of sustained falsehood against the person and family of Jonathan by shady and shadowy characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe urge Bayelsans and Nigerians to disregard the story as it contains no grain of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a poor script written with the intention of causing distrust and inciting Bayelsans against themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat Bayelsa needs now is peace, unity and progress, and not this noxious orgy of mud-slinging and mischief-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs far as we are concerned, the Bayelsa elections have been won and lost at the polls and the courts; we therefore, urge all groups to accept the transition in good faith,\u201d he said. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ex -President Goodluck Jonathan has refuted social media reports that he received N300 million and bullet proof cars from Mr David Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa. Jonathan, who made the rebuttal in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr Ikechukwu Eze, on Wednesday in Yenagoa, described the allegations as \u201cpatently fictitious, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nI didn\u2019t receive N300m, bullet proof cars from Lyon- Jonathan » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5500\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5500#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Politics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"I didn\u2019t receive N300m, bullet proof cars from Lyon- Jonathan\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"I didn\u2019t receive N300m, bullet proof cars from Lyon- Jonathan » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5500","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5500#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politics","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"I didn\u2019t receive N300m, bullet proof cars from Lyon- Jonathan"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Ex -President Goodluck Jonathan has refuted social media reports that he received N300 million and bullet proof cars from Mr David Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa. Jonathan, who made the rebuttal in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr Ikechukwu Eze, on Wednesday in Yenagoa, described the allegations as \u201cpatently fictitious,…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}