Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki
(rtd.), has said that he never campaigned for the All Progressives Congress
(APC) nor President Muhammadu Buhari against President Goodluck Jonathan in the
2015 Nigeria election.
A statement he personally signed on Sunday was released by PRNigeria.
Dasuki stressed that he was only involved in the attempt to
forge an alliance between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
This was prior to the 2011 elections.
“My involvement in that political process ended after the
elections of 2011,” he declared.
The Sokoto prince condemned speculations that he secretly
campaigned for Buhari and APC, while serving as Jonathan’s adviser.
“At first, I found the report too ridiculous to take serious
but on a second thought, I felt it would be appropriate not only to debunk it
but to put the records straight especially in view of politics of mischief and
character assassination that are unfortunately the norm today.”
Dasuki said at the point of accepting the appointment to
serve as NSA in 2012, he made it clear to President Jonathan that he had “a
relationship with (then) General Muhammadu Buhari of CPC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu
of ACN and Chief Ogbonnaya Onu of ANPP, among other opposition elements, and
that his appointment would not cause him to sever the relationship.”
“I, however, assured President Jonathan that I would never
betray him. As a man of honour, I kept to my words.”
Dasuki added that for the record, he did not work “at cross
purposes with my boss, President Goodluck Jonathan as being recklessly
insinuated by mischief-makers on their blogs and social media”.
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