Over the past few weeks, their are speculated rumours making rounds the country that former President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, was constantly found drunk in Aso-Rock Villa.
A former aides to the president, Dr Reuben Abati, who was Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, says that the insinuation is not true about his boss.
Dr Reuben Abati, in an interview with Rockcity 101.9 FM, Abeokuta, Ogun State, said:
- “Rumours that Jonathan was excessively fond of drinking alcohol had to do with stereotyping about people from the South-South geo-political zone.”
- “But I can tell you that in my 4 years of working for President Jonathan, I never found him in a bibulous situation. If he ever tasted any drink, maybe a glass of wine during special occasions. All those stories about him drinking, about President Jonathan always being berated, about bibulous situations inside the Villa, those things did not exist. The people must find justifications to say this is why we think this situation is this way it is,” Abati said.