Another Wikileaks cable about Nigeria written in early 2010, in the days following the return from Saudi Arabia of Umaru Yar’Adua, the country’s ailing leader, shows that the Army Chief of Staff, General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, considered Goodluck Jonathan at that time to be the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

But Dambazau worried, however, that Jonathan was becoming very sectional and that he was too easily influenced by others. He also felt that most Northerners considered Jonathan’s most pronounced weakness to be his relationship with former President Obasanjo.

The meeting between Dambazau and the American ambassador, Robin Sanders, took place on February 24. Dambazau told Ms. Sanders that Obasanjo was "in and out of Aguda House, Jonathan's residence, several times a day now, and it is making people uncomfortable, particularly in the North."

He urged the ambassador to call on Jonathan to be “his own man,” which she did in another cable, which was previously reported by SaharaReporters, as it appeared to everyone that whatever Jonathan was saying was being orchestrated directly by Obasanjo.


On the tension in the country in the days following Yar’Adua’s return to Nigeria, Dambazau explained to Ms. Sanders that the "Katsina group" around Yar'Adua had "caged" him off even before his departure for Saudi Arabia, leading to Yar’Adua no longer being seen as a national figure.

He told the ambassador that, unfortunately, Jonathan was beginning to exhibit the same tendencies, with the people around him behaving just as badly as the Katsina clique, and Jonathan handing out favors to his ethnic group.

Wrote the ambassador, “He [Dambazau] gave the example of the recent transfer of Naira 19 billion of GON (government) funds to a Niger Delta environmental project that was done at the end of a meeting that Jonathan had with a group from his region. Dambazau said this was done outside of the normal Cabinet decision-making process.”

The Dambazzau cable is yet another of the many that throw light on how key Nigeria government functionaries routinely empty government’s deepest secrets on the laps of the American ambassador.

Dis Ms. Sanders sef! Na wa for am o! Na jass she de use?
A whole general, singing like a canary! 9ja!

"Wrong title"
It should have said" Dambazua shown to be disloyal to GEJ during the transition." Where did it show GEJ saying things like " I prefer my tribes people to others" for example.

The original article in saharareporters is entitled" Chief of Army Staff Dambazau Considered Jonathan “Sectional” and “Easily Swayed” - Wikileaks

Beaf:

Dis Ms. Sanders sef! Na wa for am o! Na jass she de use?
A whole general, singing like a canary! 9ja!

Beaf you know how most of these leaders roll now. Always eager to kowtow to foreigners and sell their people out.

Just sitting in front of the US ambassador is enough to make Many of them sing and dance like bewitched foooools

okada_man:

Beaf you know how most of these leaders roll now. Always eager to kowtow to foreigners and sell their people out.

Just sitting in front of the US ambassador is enough to make Many of them sing and dance like bewitched foooools

I hope they learn from these many apakor dance naked in present of american representatives

[size=28pt]Every[/size] Nigerian is a tribalist. Some just choose to keep quiet about it.

Why don't you post the url to the actual wikileaks cable? Media organizations twist the data, post the actual cable if you want to be taken seriously.

Dude could have been killed in a coup by Dambazau and the rest of those northerners.

Why on earth would anyone expect him to be buddy-buddy with them?

I'd have held them off at arm's length too. Cannot work with those you do not trust.

unsurprising news.

na today?

@ekt.   Yes. As far as Nigerian politics is concerned, he did nothing strange. Those who think Nigeria is one united country are just ignorant jokers with a "pie in the sky" mentality.

This country is as divided as moses's red sea. Nah oil dollars dey keep us together.

Has anyone seen the movie 'The Tailor of Panama' or read the book 'Our Man in Havana'.

Somehow I feel all these cables are hoarse stories made up out of imaginations by CIA agents and other agents from foreign agencies to keep their job and sustain the inflow of money for them to keep living their big life style outside the shores of their native country.

Humans can be very manipulative, let's not be naive.

I don dey fear these Northerners now.

Every human irrespective of his tribe,race.nation,religion and philosophy is bias in one way or the other,therefor every one is Tribalist .What differs is just the degree of being Tribalist.Tribalism is as old as our culture,so nothing is new if FREE AIR is being Tribalistic .