President Goodluck Jonathan, at a town hall meeting in
Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State, said that he accepted
Nnaji's resignation despite his accomplishment in the power sector during his
short tenure to protect the privatization process. In his first comment on the
matter, the president said that the former minister only resigned in order to
give credibility to the privatization of the power sector. The president said
before an assemblage of Anambra elite and the entire South-east, that he was
seizing the opportunity of being in their midst to exonerate the minister.
According to the President, “I have to make it clear that
Professor Nnaji is a very competent professor; he is a product of the World
Bank, a professor of engineering. He is very competent in the sector but we
agree that there are expectations and that is what happens all over the world”.
Prof. Nnaji, in an earlier statement had rebutted reports
that he was forced out of government, saying that he voluntarily resigned his
position to protect his integrity. He said he voluntarily resigned to protect
his integrity, which he stated had come under scurrilous attacks recently by
"powerful vested interests" that were hell bent on destroying all he
had worked for over the years.
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