STOP INSULTING JONATHAN, HE WAS HELD HOSTAGE -submitted by Adex

Sometimes I pity people insulting former President, calling him different names, such as clueless, weak etc. Some even ask what he was doing or his where about when all these corruption activities were going on. Yeah some maybe right by saying he was actually aware of the games playing on his field. You need to be there to know how hard it is to be yourself. It is hard to have opinion of your own, in the midst of some highly powerful, intelligent and professional corrupt assistants and advisers.

What I believe is, he (Jonathan) was held hostage, he could not have done otherwise. He is the person that can say what really happened. We can only speculate and guess, but he knows well what and when things start to go down.

Look, it is not possible for Dasuki, even as NSA to drive trailer to the CBN and order the Governor to load $2bn into it and the CBN Governor would say “Yes Sir” and load it. Obviously, the CBN could only have released the funds after the President of Nigeria and the Minister of Finance must have authorized the transaction(s).

The CBN had made it clear that, “The money was in the account that belongs to the FG. The only signatory to that account is that Accountant-General of the Federation. The then Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, wrote a memo asking the President to approve that the money be moved from the Federal Government account to the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser.”

“After former President Jonathan approved it, the person that gave the mandate for that money to be moved was the AGF. He sent a mandate to the CBN. It was based on that mandate that the CBN moved the $300m and the 5.5m Pounds from the account of the Federal Government, where this Abacha money was, to the NSA. That was how the NSA was able to have access to the money. The CBN simply paid based on an authorised mandate.”

There is a bigger scandal than ''Dasukigate''. In the on-going investigation into N1 trillion worth of contracts by the Nigerian Railways Corporation, NRC, the former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur (former Chairman of PDP) and Senator Ladan, who headed the NRC have stated categorically that the Board of NRC was not involved in awarding any contracts. So, who was awarding contracts for the rails?