The All Progressives Congress has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to explain to Nigerians what Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, was doing on the plane that illegally ferried US$9.3m to South Africa, where Asari Dokubo, another Nigerian and an Israeli were arrested, according to a published report.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said since the federal government has taken ownership of the funds by saying the National Security Adviser issued the end-user certificate for the arms purchase, it stands to reason that the same government will know the involvement of all those aboard the plane.
It said, therefore, that the federal government has a lot of questions to answer on the whole deal, including whether Asari Dokubo is the contractor or the end user, who he was procuring arms for and for what purpose.
APC said the questions become pertinent because even the NSA, who issued the end-user agreement for the purchase, does not and cannot purchase arms for any of the armed services. The Service Chiefs have separate budgets from the NSA for arms purchase.
It said, ”Under our Constitution, the NSA is an adviser and has no executive powers to deploy troops from any of the services or purchase arms for them. That the arms purported to be purchased from South Africa were ordered from the office of the NSA is nothing but a mere fabrication, and raises serious questions about the motive for the purchase.
”Nigerians will therefore like to know on whose behalf Asari Dokubo was purchasing arms. This is very crucial because Asari Dokubo has been threatening that Nigeria will not know peace if his benefactor, President Jonathan, is not re-elected. Therefore, Nigerians will like to know whether he has started stockpiling arms to make his threat a reality, since elections are due in a few months’ time.
”If these arms are meant to fight insurgency, as the government has claimed, what is Asari Dokubo’s business purchasing arms for the Nigerian military, if indeed they were for the military? Does it not occur to the Nigerian government that this man who once took arms against the state may not have jettisoned his sinister plan against the same state? Which country will ever allow a man who once carried arms against the state to now be purchasing arms for the same state?
“Even if it is true that he is purchasing the arms for the state, what prevents him from also using the opportunity to purchase arms for his own sinister motive? Could this be why Asari Dokubo has been talking publicly and confidently, without official censure, that President Jonathan must be re-elected or Nigeria will not know peace again?”
It added that its Press Release on Tuesday, had further asked President Jonathan to come clean on the US$9.3m and US$5.7m deals.
“We also asked him to tell Nigerians the identity of the two Nigerians who were on the plane that illegally ferried money to South Africa. Now that the Nigerians are known, and they are the President’s men, the story has taken a new dimension,” it said.
APC said since those who claim to be fighting for Nigeria’s unity may actually be the ones working against it, since those who lay claim to patriotism may actually be any but patriotic, it is more urgent now, than ever, for the National Assembly to take these cash-for-arms deals seriously, instead of dismissing the concerns of Nigerians on the basis of some rules as the House of Representatives has glibly done.
The party commended the media for keeping the story alive and for working hard to unearth the identity of the Nigerians aboard the ill-fated plane that illegally flew money into another country in violation of that country’s laws and all known tenets of decency.
It called on the media, in pursuance of its constitutional role of a watchdog, not to relent in exposing the circumstances surrounding the cash-for-arms deals, which have seriously embarrassed Nigeria in the comity of nations and which have the potential to threaten Nigeria’s unity, going by the latest revelations. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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So, Asari Dokubo was in Ayo Orisa plane? Ok o. We are waiting for more information. 2015, here we come.
ReplyDeletesad nation. i dont knw mr president cant do without these guys around him. making life hard for him and the whole nation. is sad.
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ReplyDeleteNo wonder Dokubo was always bragging. So this is his and Jonathan's plans. Can you see what Obasanjo was saying then when he said Jonathan has some people he has targeted for elimination. Ok now let's keep watching. This is a very serious matter.
ReplyDeleteThis matter goes beyond assassination. 9.3 million dollars worth of arms sounds more like waging war against the state or outright secession.
DeleteWe are ready for the war. Maybe we will go our respective ways once and for all after 2015
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ReplyDeleteThe fact remains that GJ comes with oil. If we nigerians agree not to have him as president then we will have to agree not to have their oil. You cannot be eating another man's food and be abusing him at the same time.
ReplyDeleteTruth is Lai Lai Mohamed is running out of blackmailing stories, he said Asari was in the flight, later he is asking the press Not to relent in knowing the two persons onboard, that shows The level of confusion He is experiencing. APC ( Toothless Bull Dog ) they need a stonger chain to put them in check.
DeleteAPC is full of rubbish deceit.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you being myopic. Is ut APC that sent them to South Africa with the money or is it APC that asked South African government to arrest them? Please make a useful comment.
DeleteThe APC deceit is that Asari was not in South Africa. Why circulate false claims?
DeleteSome Nigerians reason like chicken and they find it difficult to address the fact. I do not know what APC has to do in this matter or were they sent by APC to purchase arms and ammunition in order to kill innocent Nigerians against 2015 election?
Deleteyemolala or whatever bullshit u call yourself, are this daft? The headlines reads APC to FG, and you still ask a stupid question what APC has got to do with this? you obviously reason from your anus. apc is swearing that asari was on that plane, Asari has said he has been to SA since 2012,what does this tell you? anyway I wont force you to reason like a human being.
DeleteI saw Asari Dokubo picture stoning satan and all those that are causing problem in Nigeria while he was in pilgrimage to Mecca.I think Lai muhammed and the muslim owners of APC should go to Mecca to stone those causing problem in nigeria while the rest of us will wait and see what happens thereafter. If Asari dies that means he is the one causing problem but if APC implode that means its APC that is the problem
ReplyDeleteGuy, he has plenty of time between their foiled attempt to buy arms and running off to Hajj if at all that picture he posted was actually this years hajj at all.
DeleteWhy has he never posted his presence in haj b4 thi time.
Deleteasari is product to northern Nigeria. they are brothers in the blood. so let us hear word.
ReplyDeleteClearly the evil party is preparing the ground for taking the country 100 years aback. Upon what the Federal Government has perpetrated under the alias Bokoharam, the latest plan is to annihilate all that is in the entity Nigeria and destroy it in totality. What a wicked president! I just pray that that will not occur before we collectively kick the Otuoke man back to the creeks, where he belong.
ReplyDeletePeople like you sir should be jailed for inflammatory statements such as this! You were at the meeting where he formed bokoharam?
DeleteI suspect you are just seeking cheap popularity!
Really adoke, kick the president back to the creeks and then what? and u think there will be calm and peace and opportunity for you good for nothing lazy abokis that brings nothing to the Nigerian table to come and reap where you did not sow? you must be a stupid dreamer.
DeleteAbdulkadir Adoke, if I guess right i will say that you are related to Muhammed Adoke, the Minister for Justice and Attorney General of the Federation.. If my guess is true, i'm not surprised about your position knowing fully well that the elder brother to the Minister Muhammed Adoke introduced religious sentiments to campaing for Muhammed Buhari in Muslim dominated Okene, Kogi central senatorial district during 2011 presidential election. So the minister could not deliver the needed vote to the GEJ government which he is part of. This issue has created quarrel among the members of Adoke family. If you are a member of this family, I guess you are with the group that is supporting Buhari all in the name of religion. Now let us address the points raised by Femi Aribisala. These are facts, however he may not 100% correct but these are facts. It was Jonathan that created Federal university in Kogi state.What femi is saying is that considering the period GEJ is been in the office and what he has done particularly in the north and comparing with the 38years of northern dominated leadership of Nigeria, GEJ has done more than all the northern leaders.Our northern leaders are the architect of our problem. They did little to transform Nigeria. They did little to transform the northern region and develope the northerners. GEJ is not the clueless leader they are presenting him to be.
DeleteI remembered how the economy of Ebiraland (Okene) now Kogi central thrived in the early 80s because of Itakpe iron ore development and Adjaokuta steel project, the company that would have been the major driver of the Nigerian economy apart from petroleum but when Buhari took over the goverment he killed the iron and steel Company. Babangida and Abacha buried it and Obasanjo did the funeral remembrance by privatising it to Solgas, a fictitious company that has no track record in steel processing and production.The emergence of Buhari to the government in 1983 was the begining of the set back of Ebira/Okene ( the present Kogi central) and the setback of nigeria.I know GEJ has not revived the steel company, I know he has not addressed the insurgency which is a northern creation by their foolishness, I know GEJ has not curbed corruption, I know there is need for improvement but considering what he has done you cannot say he is clueless. The northern leadership and her cronies that held nigeria bound for 38years without developing the country, their region and their people cannot use the word clueless to describe GEJ. By David
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DeleteWho told u we are oppose to a credible otuake/south south or south easterner,if only he will deal with all this formers & present to restore pple & the econ.
DeleteMr Lier APC, please did the south African government give you a private press conference? Where did they release Asari's name as one of the passengers of the plane? Or are you privy to information that Nigerians are not privy to?
ReplyDeleteDo you know what the NSA's job is? Have you occupied the position before?
Please stick to real information not falsehood!
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ReplyDeleteLies like this end up projecting the APC as unserious and unreliable! Where is the evidence that Asari Dukubo was on that aircraft? If he was would he not have been arrested and prosecuted by the South African authorities. Wouldn't his picture be splashed all over the news media in that country. The APC spin masters will stop at nothing in their bid to upturn the scale of power. But it will be best that in doing this they be mindful of not making statements that may inflame the tense situations we currently find ourselves in this country. In other words, Lai Mohammed, the APC and indeed all opposition parties must be cautious and responsible in the type of statements they make.
ReplyDeleteLai is all about lies, Agrieved People Congress APC got a man whose name dipies what he does Lai the liar as there pub sec we would see where ds leads APC (SAMMY)
ReplyDeleteasari na muslim
ReplyDeleteno his just claim to be a muslim
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