Jonathan didn't offer Tinubu Interim Government Slot

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said
there was no truth in the claim by a national
leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, that he offered the former Lagos
State governor the opportunity to serve as Vice
President in a proposed Interim National
Government.
Jonathan, who spoke with State House
correspondents in Abuja through his Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati,
described Tinubu’s claim as absurd and
ridiculous.
Tinubu had in a statement by his media office on
Thursday claimed that the recent attacks on his
person were because he rejected the offer by
Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an
ING.
He claimed that having refused the offer, the
President was looking for ways to take him out
either by killing him or getting him arrested
based on trumped up charges.
But Abati insisted that the position of Jonathan
had remained that the idea of an ING is
treasonable.
He said the President had made it clear that he
had neither proposed the idea at any forum nor
discussed it with anybody.
He added that as a democratically elected
President, Jonathan’s ambition could never be to
head an ING under whatever circumstances.
The presidential spokesman said Jonathan was
going into the March 28 presidential election
with the conviction that he had performed well
and majority of Nigerians would vote for him
massively.

Source: Punch