Jonathan, governors behaving like pickpockets – Ango Abdullahi

Spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi, on Thursday rose in defence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, declaring that President Goodluck Jonathan and some governors were behaving like pick-pockets and thieves.
The Forum is led by Alhaji Maitama Sule.
Abdullahi was reacting to an attack on Obasanjo and some critics of the Federal Government by Jonathan.
Abdullahi said: “President Jonathan should know that, in a motor park, there are touts and there are pick-pockets, so if some past leaders are touts, some sitting leaders are pick-pockets and thieves. So, you have to make your pick from that.’’
The elder statesman, who spoke in Zaria, Kaduna State, castigated Jonathan for abusing some past leaders “when the present so-called leaders are worse”.
“Jonathan may disagree with Obasanjo but he (Obasanjo) is one of our leaders who come out to say things the way they are. This is a man that has been saying things as he has seen them. It is only very recently, some well-meaning Nigerians like him have come to agree that, the country is being put in the wrong direction under the leadership of the current administration
“This is a country everybody is complaining about corruption and the President himself has said that stealing is a small corruption. And so, for him to even come around and refer to some people as touts, he should remember that some ‎of them sitting there are pick-pockets and some of them are even worse than pick-pockets.’’