The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has criticised former President Goodluck Jonathan for rising to the defence of his embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

In a statement on Thursday, the party said Mr. Jonathan’s claims had proved beyond doubts that he knew everything about the arms purchase scandal as well as other corruption cases that happened in his regime.

“Even as we concede that Jonathan is on a desperate bid to rehabilitate himself, we wouldn’t believe that a former president should be so contemptuous of the intelligence of Nigerians as to give the kind of defence he gave to Sambo Dasuki,” the Lagos APC said in a statement by Joe Igbokwe, its publicity secretary.

“We wonder what Jonathan makes of the horrid details that are emanating from the Dasukigate issue with shocking evidences, confessions and even refunds made by those that participated in that monumental corruption.”

While addressing a gathering on youth entrepreneurship at the Oxford Union, in the United Kingdom, Mr. Jonathan said it was impossible for Mr. Dasuki, a retired army colonel, to have stolen $2.2 billion as claimed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

“They said the National Security Adviser stole $2.2 billion,” Mr. Jonathan said while responding to a question about the alleged missing arms procurement fund now referred to as Dasukigate by the Nigerian media.

“I don’t believe somebody can just steal $2.2 billion. We bought warships, we bought aircraft, we bought lots of weapons for the army and so on and so forth and you are still saying 2.2 billion, so where did we get the money to buy all those things?”

The APC said there should be a limit to defending “such hefty corruption acts”, which greatly compromised the nation’s security and led to the loss of thousands of precious Nigerian lives.

The party also cautioned Mr. Jonathan not to continue to play on the intelligence of Nigerians who, they said, is still smarting from the horrendous cases of corruption that were perpetrated under him.

“To claim that Dasuki and his partners did not steal the arms purchase fund reveals the inner beliefs of Jonathan and explains that he is intrinsically webbed to corruption,” Mr. Igbokwe said.

“Even while he is perceived as pathologically corrupt and his regime seen as the most corrupt in Nigeria’s chequered history, one would have expected Jonathan to be cautious in seeking to advance very childish and inadmissible exculpation of his subordinates for glaring acts of corruption.

“We had expected that jJonathan would have striven to water down the lowly impression held of him by Nigerians and the international community by not deciding to be so patronising to clear cases of corruption by his subordinates. But with each day, Jonathan continues to baffle by his chameleonic acts.

“By Jonathan’s cheap defence of Sambo Dasuki, we believe time has come for the security agencies to pick up Jonathan to tell the nation all that he knows of the many cases of corruption that happened under him.”

The party said it believed the former president knows more than he admits about the “unseemly corruption” that he presided over and should be brought in for questioning.

“We don’t believe any thing shields Jonathan from prosecution for corruption as we believe it is becoming indefensible for Jonathan to pretend he was innocent of the corrupt acts of his subordinates,” Mr. Igbokwe continued.

“While we condemn Jonathan’s cheeky defence of Dasuki, even in the face of monumental damning evidences, we want to state that the anti corruption war is incomplete until Jonathan is prosecuted for he continually proves, by such defence of his corrupt subordinates, that he knew everything that transpired in his corruption-ridden regime.”

Izonpikin:
Idiots...it's time to arrest gej but leave tinubu...fools...

richidinho:


I salute your stewp!dity oh! Lagos APChit

ba7man:
GEJ needs to be arrested to let him know he can't ground a nation with corruption, use " I handed over power" as his only selling point and then run around the world running his mouth on his empty achievements.

He is linked to the major cases of corruption and he needs to speak up on his role in these cases.

I'll also suggest a clamp down on his paid goon running up and down the social media.

GoodofNaija:

It is high time he is arrested to send a clear message to wailers/future looters/goats that:

No peace for looters!

ba7man:
GEJ needs to be arrested to let him know he can't ground a nation with corruption, use " I handed over power" as his only selling point and then run around the world running his mouth on his empty achievements.

He is linked to the major cases of corruption and he needs to speak up on his role in these cases.

I'll also suggest a clamp down on his paid goon running up and down the social media.

mrjangaweed:
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balderdash
go and arrest him naa and stop spitting on nairaland with your rotten saliva

Gej is 1 billion better than Buhari the useless gworo chewing terrorist in all ramifications
deal with the truth and facts

drss2:
if truely there's sometin like $2.2 billion arms deal,
*why is buari stalling dasuki trial in court?
*why is dasuki locked up in detention without any form of trial?
*why is buari afraid of granting dasuki bail?
*why is dasuki's case shrouded in secrecy?
d answer is simple - There's notin like $2.2 billion arms deal. it is true dat dasuki gave out monies to different pipul. but was d monies from funds meant to buy arms? capital NO! d moneys were simply Security Vote!. every govt have its own security vote, even d dullard has his own security votes. n security votes ar spend at d discretion of d govt. is it morally right for a govt to have security vote dat matter is left for d executive n national assembly to decide.
however in a bit to settle political scores, wat buari govt did was to reviewed GEJ's security votes n term it Arms Deal or $2.2 billion arms deal. an action he believe will enable him have d grounds to arrest n deal with his political opponents. riding on nigerian sentiment on corruption, he went on to use propaganda to distort d facts n figures surrounding d so called arms deal saga. in fact d so called arms deal fiasco (security votes) spans from 2007-2015. was dasuki national security adviser in 2007 No. why do u tink buari is afraid of granting dasuki bail why do u tink GEJ said it is impossible for dasuki to spend d so called $2 billion arms deal funds becos it does not exist!
d so called arms deal saga is notin but a figment of buari's govt imagination.
open ur eyes n smell d coffee. d dullard is playing on ur mind with corruption for his own political vendette.