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‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by theshadyexpress(m): 10:40pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday heard how PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, spent N171 million to launder ex- President Goodluck Jonathan’s image ahead of the 2015 elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Metuh is standing trial on allegation of embezzling N400 million. In his testimony before Justice Okon Abang, Richard Ihediwa, the fifth defence witness, told the court that Metuh spent N171 million on the committee for the image laundering exercise. Ihediwa said N140 million was spent on various groups coordinated by aides to the former President while N31 million was disbursed for advertorials in several newspapers. “Various aides to former president helped to coordinate groups that worked across the country with regards to boosting his image towards the 2015 Presidential Election. “There were many aides to Jonathan who coordinated those groups and they belonged mostly to the media and publicity, strategy, research and documentation departments. “In the light of this, Metuh made a lot of payments to these groups coordinated by Presidential Aides and they received N140 million,” he said. He, however, said the payments were made in line with Jonathan’s directives, adding that Metuh never used discretionary powers to disburse the funds. “There was also a bill of N31 million for advertorial for the media, using representatives of media houses reporting the beat. “Metuh made the payment through me. I received the payment through my Access Bank account and consequently paid all the media houses. “Some payments were made through transfers while others were made in cash,” the witness said. Ihediwa said the issue of image laundering for the former president was raised at the meeting of PDP stakeholders and Metuh was assigned the responsibility. “The issue of his image was very important to him because of that election. So, the major mandate given to the team led by Metuh was to find ways to improve on Jonathan’s standing using the media. “The fact is that the fund spent was not taken from government treasury as alleged. “I am aware funds were raised and domiciled with the former president. At that time, the Fund Raising Committee headed by Professor Jerry Gana had started working and they held a fundraising dinner,” he said. The presiding judge however, adjourned the case till Nov. 16 for continuation. Metuh, who is facing a seven-count charge, was also accused of an illegal 200,000 US dollars transaction. (NAN) www.thetrentonline.com/metuh-jonathan-witness-court/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by ojun50(m): 10:46pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
We kwn we hv heard we no won hear any tin about corruption the country is nt moving forward 2 Likes |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by knuclehead: 10:47pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
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Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by ceejayluv(m): 10:51pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
lotta revelations everyday... |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by progress69: 10:54pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
The only annoying thing is with all these money wasted, Jonathan lost woefully! |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by progress69: 10:56pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
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Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by ceejayluv(m): 11:00pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
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Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by baybeeboi: 11:40pm On Nov 15, 2016 |
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Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by HtwoOw: 7:16am On Nov 16, 2016 |
It's not government money? " Hahahahahahahahah dem sha wan rope Jonathan by all means . Good news for me |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by Nobody: 8:57am On Nov 16, 2016 |
Revisionism, history and
defence of Jonathan
By Charles Ogbu | 15 November 2016 | 3:50 am
Former President Goodluck Jonathan PHOTO: Philip Ojisua
First, let me make one thing very clear here. I did not
support GEJ during the last election, not because he was
not better than his Daura-born opponent, Muhammadu
Buhari, but because despite his very good record as a
democrat and a gentleman president plus his excellent
economic achievements, I still considered him too weak
and not competent enough to deserve my vote especially
after the insensitive manner he treated the immigration job
tragedy. I was at the national stadium. I saw my friend die
in the stampede. When Jonathan refused to sack anybody
for the job scam and the avoidable deaths that followed, I
immediately knew the gods and the spirit of my dead
friend would not forgive me if I gave this man my vote as
insignificant as it was.
I never made any post or comments in support of GEJ
during the electioneering. But in all these, I never lost sight
of the fact that mentioning the name GEJ and Buhari in the
same sentence with a view to comparing them remained a
moral tragedy. This article is borne out of a sincere desire
not to sit back and watch morally bankrupt men twist
history and destroy an innocent man with devilish lies.
Having said these, let me come to the reason why I’m
here. Undiluted, unadulterated, crude hate for Jonathan as
a person and the desire to ensure his name is never
associated with anything good is one thing every APC
member and Buhari supporters have in common. This
common characteristic is so strong…too strong, even!
Matter of fact, it is stronger than the feeling of kinship that
binds marijuana smokers together. If you are ‘a ganja
man’, you will understand my drift here. Whether they
belong to the Saraki faction, Tinubu faction, Buhari faction
or even the latter day wailer-wanna-be faction, this
common trait is the power house of all their activities the
exact way the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
When you hear the APC tells you that the 16 years of PDP
government is the cause of all our woes today, it is not the
PDP they want you to blame, it is not even Obasanjo who
ruled for eight solid years and is not the APC navigator-in-
chief, it is Jonathan who was in power just for five years
they want to incite you against. If you don’t believe me,
ask yourself how come over 70% of all those holding
public offices under APC today are ex-members of the
PDP? Check all the ministers, governors, NASS members
etc, over 70% of them left the PDP and were welcomed into
the APC with an open arm and a baptism which washed
away their sins and turned them to saints.
If the APC strongly believes the PDP destroyed Nigeria, why
welcome the same people into their party? Does this make
any sense? Or is it just the acronym “PDP” that is the
problem? Their target is GEJ. If not hate, why would
anyone claim that Jonathan ran the most corrupt
government in Nigeria history? Do these guys think we all
have amnesia? So if we keep quite so as not to be
accused of being paid by Jonathan or the PDP, these
children of #broom will just alter history before our very
eyes. So we have suddenly forgotten Abacha? Have we
forgotten that all the money Dasuki is accused of sharing
is not up to half of the very first set of stolen money
recovered as Abacha loot, the same Abacha-thieving-
government, their mini-god Buhari not only served under
but vehemently defended and even swore by the seven
gods that he didn’t steal a dime. This is even as billions of
dollars (not naira) of the loot have continued to be returned
to Nigeria.
Have we suddenly forgotten the OBJs, the IBBs, the
Abdulsalamis, the Buharis, the Gowons, etc who ran under
the military system of government where there is no form
of transparency? Or, they just selected only Jonathan’s
government for probe and concluded it was the most
corrupt? Which one did they compare it with or has it not
occurred to them that for a thing to be adjudged the worst,
it must have
been compared with other things?
These other men including the late Sani Abacha ruled the
country with decrees and looted as they wanted but is it
Jonathan who was in power for just five years that is the
biggest thief in Nigeria history? Chai! Little wonder, these
soulless liars were able to twist history and sold the
political disaster called Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerians.
First, they lied that Jonathan bought no single weapon for
the military to prosecute the war on terror.
When this lie could no longer stick, they amended it and
claimed he actually bought some weapons but that they
were substandard and were all backfiring and killing
soldiers who were supposed to use them to fight Boko
Haram. When Nigerians queried which weapons the APC
government used to achieve ‘technical victory’ over Boko
Haram since the ones acquired by Jonathan were all fake,
the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed contradicted
himself again by admitting the Jonathan government
bought some good military hardware but that the prices
were hugely exaggerated.
Meanwhile, we all saw the newly acquired military
hardware the GEJ administration secured from Russia after
the U.S. and her allies refused selling us weapons as a
result of a petition written to them in which El-Rufai,
Murtala Nyako (ex-Adamawa State governor) and some
Northern/APC leaders accused GEJ of using the military to
reduce the population of the North under the guise of
fighting Boko Haram. And we all witnessed as our soldiers
used those weapons to liberate all our territories held by
Boko Haram and sent the terrorists disguising as females
to escape their superior firepower. Nigerians were all hash-
tagging #NeverAgain as the military were combing the
Sambisa forest in search of the Boko Haram boys. All
these happened a little over a year ago. We could not have
forgotten, could we?
We have also not forgotten that the Boko boys were able
to regroup immediately President Buhari came to power
because he (Buhari) dismantled all military roadblocks set
up purposely to checkmate their activities. We are not
unaware of the fact that the same people hell-bent on
blaming Jonathan even for the 1914 amalgamation hailed
that ill-advised move.
Another lie they’ve come up with is that GEJ caused our
current economic woes by allowing those who served
under him loot the treasury. This is a very big lie and here
is why: Corruption alone doesn’t kill an economy. Else, our
economy would have died a long time ago because there
has always been corruption in the system right from the
very first post-independence government of Nnamdi
Azikiwe and Tafawa Balewa. Leaders of every military coup
have always cited corruption as the reason for their
intervention. There was systemic corruption during GEJ’s
era just as there has always been systemic corruption but
the big question is: How come the only two times Nigeria
has gone into recession was in 1984 when Buhari was in
power and 2016 when the same Buhari is in power again?
Despite all the looting in Abacha government, Nigeria
didn’t go into recession. Despite all the looting by all the
other military rulers, we didn’t go into recession. The only
two times was three decades ago and now…..all under the
same Buhari. Haba! Even if you are incapable of any sort
of intelligent reasoning, you should be able to figure this
one out at least
Let’s even look at the two reasons advanced by IMF as the
reasons for the recession:
1) Plunging oil revenue as a result of the crises in the
Niger Delta which is the location of the oil the economy is
heavily dependent on. 2) Weakened investors’ confidence
in the country/economy. It is on record that barely two
weeks after being sworn in as president, Buhari
resurrected the Niger Delta crises by bombing the region,
cutting the amnesty budget drastically and terminating the
oil pipeline surveillance contract given to the ex-militants.
The rush with which those actions were taken tends to
suggest that public interest was the last thing on the
president’s mind. In addition, Buhari went to America and
made it clear he would discriminate against those who
didn’t give him 97% of their vote. Whatever lies we chose
to believe, we must not forget that these reckless ill-
conceived actions of Buhari were hugely responsible for
the current crisis in the Niger Delta which has led to
plunging oil revenue blamed as one of the reasons for the
recession. Weakened investors’ confidence: When Buhari
took over from GEJ, rather than hit the ground running, he
abandoned not just the economy but the entire country.
He left the whole country on autopilot. No government in
place, no minister, no economic direction. For over six
months. Now tell me, if you were an investor looking for
where to invest your money, would you invest in such an
economy? After every election, investors always wait for
the new government to reel out her economic policy to
enable them to consider their chances of getting
favourable return should they invest in such an economy.
These guys are businessmen, not some bunch of “money
miss road”. Buhari single-handedly weakened their
confidence by leaving the entire country and the economy
on autopilot for over six months. Is this even debatable?
How exactly did Jonathan cause our current economic
woes?
Buhari complained he met a treasury that was almost
empty which is a lie because a man who met a virtually
empty treasury would not start building a helipad in his
hometown in Daura. Such a man would not start traveling
all over the world in company of governors from his APC
party. Jonathan had one of the best economic teams.
What Buhari has as an economic team is a bunch of
sycophants who are mostly lawyers like the VP, the
national planning minister, the president’s chief of staff
who are all lawyers by profession and the trade and
investment minister who is a medical doctor. The
economists in the so-called economic advisory team are
not up to four. Please don’t take my word for it. Do your
own research. The over six months Buhari wasted before
forming his government, the fact that he doesn’t have a
competent economic team and his reckless action in
bombing the Niger Delta, the reckless manner he
terminated the oil pipeline contract which was part of the
amnesty deal with the militants and slashing the amnesty
budget were the main reasons why our economy went
south.
Jonathan didn’t cause all these, did he? Now, let us even
assume that Jonathan looted everything, did he loot
Buhari’s brain and his economic management abilities?
Isn’t it 18 months already? Is 18 months not long enough
for citizens to start feeling the impact of a government
headed by a man who spent 12 solid years begging for the
job and promising that he had studied all our problems
and was ready to solve them all if only we would elect him
president? Jonathan is human. He is no saint. He has his
faults but he was a democrat. As president, he was a
perfect gentleman. When he was stoned in Bauchi, he ran
and was whisked away by his security details. None of
those Bauchi-stone throwing boys were even arrested. But
under Buhari, an ordinary army chief killed hundreds of
people for blocking his convoy. Jonathan conceded defeat
to Buhari in the 2015 election but in 2011 when he ran
under a little known newly formed CPC, Buhari rejected the
election result and incited his followers into killing
hundreds of innocent Nigerians including youth corps
members. Jonathan had plans. He was slow but he did
have plans, some of which we are already seeing. The
worst enemy Jonathan had was his media team. They were
completely useless. These incompetent people failed to
bring most of GEJ achievements in the open. But those
achievements are still the President Buhari must be made
to understand that at the end of his tenure, he would be
judged not by what his predecessor did or didn’t do but by
how he (Buhari) was able to manipulate economic and
social-political indices he met on ground to get Nigerians
to a better living condition than he met them.
Enough of the puerile rhetoric from the presidency, please!
This is the time to get to work. Let me just end this with
this free piece of advice to my APC brethren: The best way
to defend a government that is 18 months old in office is
by reeling out its achievements, not by blaming the
government before it. Buhari was not voted in as president
just so he could spend the whole tenure telling us
who and who caused our problem. We already know those
who caused our problems and Buhari is one of them. He
was voted in because he promised he had the solutions.
Enough of the blame game and Jonathan’s bashing. Even
if you must be against him, it is morally reprehensible.
Ogbu, a social analyst, writes from Port Harcourt. 3 Likes |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by theshadyexpress(m): 9:52am On Nov 16, 2016 |
topics like this don't really make it to the FP,urs such a pity |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by Kyase(m): 9:56am On Nov 16, 2016 |
ceejayluv:Lol dem don catch am |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by Kyase(m): 9:57am On Nov 16, 2016 |
theshadyexpress:Just talk say you want make your topic enter front page make we know. Keneking call lalatiscala for am..... |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by chigoizie7(m): 10:00am On Nov 16, 2016 |
Hmmmm |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by Kyase(m): 10:01am On Nov 16, 2016 |
baybeeboi:Kikikiki wicked |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by theshadyexpress(m): 2:55pm On Nov 16, 2016 |
Kyase: if my protest against the biasness of the mods as regards the reporting of news involving the opposition doesn't suit you then be my guest |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by aresssa: 3:18pm On Nov 16, 2016 |
Metuh admits receiving N400m from office of NSA Even thought the thief himself don agree say the money came from NSA? Is NSA money no longer government money... Awon ole oshi buruku... |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by LadyExcellency: 4:46pm On Nov 16, 2016 |
aresssa: And you accepted a statement without confirmation because EFCC/DSS said so? The witnesses testifying before the court are under oath and as such their statements are more credible because they are verifiable and liable to cross examination. 1 Like |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by aresssa: 6:01pm On Nov 16, 2016 |
LadyExcellency: 1. Of what relevance is witness testimony in the presence of prosecutorial and documentary evidence showing where the funds came from and in whose account the funds landed? 2. Metuh and his lawyers were show concrete proof stating where the funds came from and till this very second, Metuh and his lawyers are yet to dispute this fact. 3. When confronted with facts showing Metuh and his lawyers where the funds came from, both Metuh and his lawyer agreed to return the money. 4. Have you asked yourself why the lawyer representing Metuh agreed to and advised his client to return the funds without convincing proof showing where the funds came from? This fact alone decimated your weak and irrelevant witness argument. Find something better to argue over abeg.. |
Re: ‘money Jonathan Gave Metuh Was Not From Gov’t Coffers’ – Witness by LadyExcellency: 7:26pm On Nov 16, 2016 |
aresssa: All these junks you quoted are just all lies from the stables of DSS/EFCC media prosecutors hence null and void. These are the same sources that got billions of dollars from Akwaibom State Government's house which turns out to be the eighth wonder-lie of 2015. If you've any video evidence, paste the link for a direct speech from the conversion between Metu, his Lawyers and the Prosecutor. |
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