Former Commonwealth
Secretary,Chief Emeka Anyaoku has reportedly been sent by ex president
Goodluck Jonathan to plead with the current President to stop the
planned probe of his financial records.
According
to SaharaReporters, the former Commonwealth Secretary, Chief Emeka
Anyaoku was mandated by ex President Jonathan to appeal to President
Muhammadu Buhari to halt the launch of an official probe of his
administration. It should be recalled that the President has made it his
major priority to curb the menace of corruption in the country as well
as the recovery of sums of money looted from the country's treasury by
corrupt politicians.
The
news was revealed to them by close aides of Buhari who claimed Jonathan
is currently physically shaking out of fear concerning the missing $20
billion dollars from the Excess Crude Account which is highly debated.
According to the source, this is not the first time Jonathan will be
making an attempt to plead with Buhari to help cover his financial
misdeeds. He reportedly sent former military Head of State,
Gen.Abdulsalami Abubakar to help pacify the president against going
after him.
SaharaReporters
sources also disclosed that Mr. Anyaoku spent a little more than two
hours in a close-door meeting yesterday where he sought to prevail on
President Buhari to halt the ongoing probe of what happened to billions
of public funds during the last few months of the Jonathan government.
One of
the committees has already discovered that Mr. Jonathan and some members
of his cabinet apparently colluded in the dying days of the previous
government to loot billions of dollars. The funds were looted via the
Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC), the Ministry of Finance, the Nigerian Maritime Authority, the
Federal Capital Territory, and several other departments. A source
within the investigative committee revealed that Mr. Jonathan and his
closest aides and political appointees made illegal withdrawals of funds
to finance his failed bid for re-election.
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