Jonathan disagrees with Buhari over railwayclaim, says ‘I’m proud of my achievements’

Immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, on
Monday, dismissed comment credited to his
successor, President Muhammadu Buhari, saying
he, Buhari, inherited “no light, bad roads and no
railway.”
Buhari, had recently claimed that he inherited

nothing from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
upon assumption of power last year.
Speaking in his hometown in Daura, Katsina
State, Buhari had said, ‘‘I want Nigerians to
realise that what this government inherited after
16 years of the PDP government was no savings,
no infrastructure, no power, no rail, no road and
no security.
But reacting to his successor’s claim, the former
President in a Facebook Post, said he was proud
of his achievements especially in the area of rail
construction.
Making reference to a piece written by the
Special Assistant on Digital/New Media to
Buhari, Tolu Ogunlesi, which was published on
January 12, 2015, Jonathan said, “I am grateful
to God and my team for what we were able to
achieve with our railways, among other things.”
Ogunlesi, in the article entitled, ‘The case for and
against President Jonathan’ had extolled
Jonathan’s achievements.
Jonathan in his Facebook post lifted the quote
from Ogunlesi’s piece, “Let’s start with
infrastructure. On the railways, the Jonathan
government scores high marks. The railway line
between Lagos and Kano has been revived after
about two decades of inactivity.

“The Enugu-Port Harcourt line has just been
launched; Abuja-Kaduna is almost finished.
There was a determined push to upgrade airports
across the country, for which we are grateful.” Daily Post