Jonathan confesses at last: I didn't speak with King of Morocco

The controversy surrounding the alleged telephone conversation between President Goodluck Jonathan and the King of Morocco has taken another dimension as President Jonathan on Friday evening opened up that he never spoke on phone with the Moroccoan King and has ordered the minister of Foreign Affairs to carry out a full scale investigation into the matter and punish those responsible for the national embarrassment.

There were reports in the media that King of Morocco snubbed President Jonathan when he sought to speak with him, the King said that it was inappropriate since Jonathan was going into an election.

Addressing a press conference on Friday, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati said the president was ‘shocked, surprised and embarrassed” over the controversy generated by his alleged telephone conversation with the Moroccoan King.

But an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs insisted that president Jonathan spoke with the King on Phone, prompting the Moroccoan government to angrily deny such a phone discussion ever took place and recalled its Ambassador to Nigeria.