The All Progressives Congress says ex-militant,
Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari, was involved in
the $9.3m arms deal which led to the arrest of
two Nigerians and an Israeli in South Africa.
The party, therefore, asked President Goodluck
Jonathan to explain to Nigerians what Dokubo-
Asari was doing on the plane where the money
was found and confiscated by the South
African authorities.
But Dokubo-Asari had distanced himself from
the $9.3m botched arms deal.
The party said this in a statement by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, on Wednesday.
It said, therefore, that the Federal Government
had a lot of questions to answer on the deal,
including whether Dokubo-Asari was the
contractor or the end user, who he was
procuring arms for and for what purpose.
The APC said the questions became pertinent
because even the National Security Adviser,
Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), who issued the end-
user agreement for the purchase, “does not
and cannot purchase arms for any of the
armed services.”
The statement read in part, “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?”
The party said the President should also come
clean on the $5.7m that was also seized by
South Africa on Monday. He said Jonathan
would so well by revealing the identities of the
Nigerians that were arrested in South Africa.
Dokubo-Asari in a telephone interview with
journalists from Saudi Arabia where he is
presently performing the 2014 Hajj, said the
last time he visited South Africa was in 2002
and could not have gone to any country
without a visa.
He said, “Can you enter any country without a
visa? No person can enter any country without
a visa. Presently, I am in Saudi Arabia
performing my Hajj as the Amirul Hajj of
Bayelsa State and this can be confirmed. I flew
Flynass from Kaduna on September 27. So, it is
really a shame that Lai Mohammed who has
defiled the name of Allah has become a
pathological and award-winning liar.
“Nobody enters any country without a visa and
I have not been to South Africa since 2002. I
flew Arik airline from Lagos on the September
27 and went to Kaduna where I flew Flynass
airline and came to Saudi Arabia.”


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