He spoke today at the last cabinet meeting of his government which fades into oblivion midnight on Thursday.
Jonathan urged Buhari not to limit his probe on him and his administration, but to extend the searchlight to previous governments, starting from Balewa’s government in 1960.
Jonathan said that a lot of things had gone wrong in the country which were all ascribed to his administration, adding that his administration had done well in spite of the criticisms.
“Some people are even calling for the probe of the government. I agree that in Nigeria there are a number of things that will be probed; very many things; even debts owed by the states and debts owed by this nation from 1960.
“Up to this time they say it is the Jonathan administration that owes all these debts.
“And I believe that anybody calling for probe must also ensure that this probe is extended beyond the Jonathan administration. Otherwise, to me, it will be witch hunting.
“If you are very sincere, then it is not only the Jonathan administration that you probe. A number of things have gone wrong, we have done our best.
“The Attorney-General is aware of massive judgment debts, if you aggregate all the judgment debts, the recent ones that we discovered is going into 1 billion dollars.
How did we come to these kinds of judgment debts? These issues should be probed.
“How did we allocate our oil fields, oil wells, marginal fields and so on? Did we follow our laws? All these should be probed and I believe many more areas need to be looked at.’’
The president said the cabinet had tried very well under a very difficult political situation.
He said there were a lot of criticisms, as “people talk different things at different times, even those who make the statements know that they are purely political’’.
Jonathan challenged those who criticize the administration to compare it with previous administrations.