Goodluck JonathanWhy ex-president channelled money through Dasuki – PDP chieftain
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Dr
Tony Aziegbemi has explained why former president, Goodluck Jonathan
decided to channel his 2015 campaign funds through former National
Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki .
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Dr Tony Aziegbemi has explained why former president, Goodluck Jonathan decided to channel his 2015 campaign funds through former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki.
Aziegbemi, a former member of the House of Representatives, made the disclosure during a recent interview with Vanguard.
Excerpts below:
What’s your reaction to insinuations that the ongoing anti-corruption war is one sided?
I
did not vote for Buhari in the last presidential election and I am so
happy that I voted for former President Goodluck Eble Jonathan. I am
happy that I did. Having said that, I think with Buhari at the helm of
affairs in this country, Nigerians are in for a one chance bus. We are
doomed for disaster; Buhari does not have the capacity to lead this
country.
Buhari knows and if he doesn’t
know, that is a pity, that the office of the National Security Adviser
is an office that is made to give security cover to the government of
the day in whatsoever form or shape.
Security cover
He
knows that the money he is talking about that the National Security
Adviser gave to many people is not money from the budget of the nation.
It is not. He should know if he doesn’t know that the office of the
National Security Adviser will be there after him and he is trying to
rubbish that office.
The President knows
that the office of the National Security Adviser can and is mostly used
for some of those things he is accusing Col. Sambo Dasuki of. So, what
Buhari is doing is shamelessly probing the political funds of the PDP
though the backdoor. That is what he is doing with the Dasukigate.
I
can hazard a guess that there are over twenty different accounts in the
office of the National Security Adviser and not all monies that come
into the office of National Security Adviser are meant for the purchase
of arms. Not. If not, where did the National Security Adviser get the
money to buy the three Bullet Proof Jeeps they gave him after he was
attacked and almost assassinated by Boko – Haram? That money was not
taken from the account meant for the Armed forces.
Everything
he does is to ‘see my perceived enemies languishing in jail, in
detention.’ Whether that will be good for the nation, that is not his
business as far as he makes sure that is what will happen.
The
man has lost the capacity to rule this country, but thank God that four
years is not too far, we trust the judgment of Nigerians and I am sure
everybody was carried away by his anti-corruption toga, but I am sure
that in as much as some of us believe that corruption should be fought,
we also know that we are supposed to put in place policies that will
develop the economy that would make Nigerians make money for themselves
and make everybody happy in the system.
There is this belief by Nigerians that the 2.1 billion US Dollars was meant for the purchase of arms.
What
he is trying to do is to paint PDP in bad light, to think that all the
money that came into the office of the National Security Adviser was
given to only PDP people.
No. I can
guess, this is about trust, that perhaps former President Goodluck
Jonathan had implicit trust in Dasuki and felt that some of the money he
needed to run his campaign could be channelled through the office of
the NSA.
What is really painful is that
he is painting a picture that is not real, he is painting a picture that
money meant for arms was being diverted into private pockets or into
PDP stalwarts’ pockets.
Dasuki has been accused of supervising the stealing of $2.1 billion in funds which were meant for the procurement of arms for Nigeria’s military.
The former NSA has however said that Jonathan was aware of the transactions, a claim which the former president has denied.
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