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Jonathan's agents carried out two bombings –
Okah insists “Diezani called me 20 times to be
made minister” • Allegations are false in their
entirety – Presidency

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger
Delta, Mr. Henry Okah, has insisted that President
Goodluck Jonathan’s agents sponsored the March
15, 2010 and October 1, 2010 bombings in Warri
and Abuja respectively for political
considerations.
Okah made the allegation in a 194-paragraph
affidavit deposed to in the South Gauteng High
court in Johannesburg, South Africa in Case No:
A570/10.
The allegations first came to light in an interview
Okah granted Arabic satellite television, Aljazeera,
in October 2010, weeks after the blast. In the
interview, he blamed the attacks on Jonathan’s
aides and claimed he was arrested for refusing to
influence MEND, to retract its claim of
responsibility.
Since then, Okah has been denied bail at least
twice, with one at the South Gauteng High Court,
Johannesburg, where he is filing a new application
for bail based on “new facts.”
The sworn affidavit was expected to be filed at
the court between Tuesday and Wednesday as
part of his renewed bid to secure bail, after
spending more than one year in a South African
jail.
His trial is set to start on October 1, 2012, exactly
two years after a devastating blast that occurred
less than a kilometre from the Eagle Square in
Abuja, where Jonathan was attending Nigeria’s
50th anniversary.
He said the March 2010 car bomb blast (which he
said occurred on March 14, 2010) at the
Government House Annex, Warri, where South-
South governors were attending an amnesty
meeting, was intended to pave the way for the
removal of Delta State Governor, Emmanuel
Uduaghan, and his replacement by the Minister of
Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe.
“It is my belief that President Goodluck Jonathan’s
government working with a faction of MEND
planned and executed the bombings of 14 March
2010 and 1 October 2010.
“The purpose of the 14 March 2010 bombing in
my opinion was to create an atmosphere of
insecurity in Niger Delta where President
Goodluck Jonathan at that time, was fighting to
oust the governor Mr. Emmanuel Uduaghan
whom President Goodluck Jonathan intended to
replace with his Minister for Niger Delta, Mr
Godsday Orubebe,” Okah said in the affidavit.
On the Independence Day bombing, which
claimed 10 lives, Okah said it was meant to sway
public opinion against the North and some of its
leaders who were planning to run against
Jonathan in the April 2011 presidential election.
Okah has been held at the Johannesburg Prison
since October 2, 2010, and is currently standing
trial for alleged involvement in the October 1
bomb attack.
He alleged that Jonathan was upset when MEND
claimed responsibility for the October 1 attack,
against a plan to blame it on Northern elements.
He stated, “The bombings of 1 October 2010 were
also intended by President Goodluck Jonathan
government to create anti-North sentiments
nationwide in order to galvanize support from
other sections of Nigeria against other Northern
candidates in the Presidential election.
“Under the arrangement, MEND, I believe, was
not to claim responsibility for the bombings which
the Nigerian government hoped to pin on General
Babangida and other Northern elements. The
claim of responsibility by the central group for a
bombing, possibly carried out by a faction of
MEND, punctured the plans of President
Goodluck Jonathan to round up his opposition
and hold them in custody until after the
elections.”
He claimed to have come under pressure from
some of Jonathan’s aides to get MEND to retract
its claim of responsibility for the bombing,
recalling that his “refusal to cooperate in this
scheme resulted in President Goodluck Jonathan
placing a call to President Jacob Zuma during the
evening of 1 October 2010, requesting President
Zuma’s personal assistance in securing my arrest.
My noncooperation was interpreted by President
Goodluck Jonathan as support for the Northern
politicians.
“The South African Government’s direct
interference was responsible for securing search
and arrest warrants against me.”
Okah also claimed to have influenced Jonathan’s
appointment of Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke as
minister of petroleum resources, at the
prompting of a Jonathan aide. He alleged that
between April 4 and 5, 2010, he received
approximately 20 calls from Alison-Madueke,
asking him to “put in a good word for her” with
Jonathan to consider her for the position.
He also countered evidence and public
statements by the SSS detailing his alleged
involvement in the October 1 blast. Okah
provided telephone numbers used by Jonathan’s
aides and Alison-Madueke in reaching him.
The Presidency has, however, described Okah’s
allegations as “false.”
In a statement by presidential spokesman, Dr.
Reuben Abati, the Presidency said the allegations
were without any factual foundation and
promised that government would full
representation in court once the trial commenced
fully.
The statement reads, “The attention of the
Presidency has been drawn to reports in the
media of allegations made against President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in an affidavit said to
have been sworn to by Mr. Henry Okah, who is
facing trial in South Africa for his involvement in
terrorist acts against the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
“The Presidency categorically affirms that these
allegations are false in their entirety and without
any factual foundation.
“As the case of Mr. Okah’s involvement in the
plotting and execution of terrorist attacks in
Nigeria is already before a court of competent
jurisdiction in South Africa, the Presidency does
not intend to say anymore on the matter for now
and will, in accordance with due process and
international law, make a full representation on
the matter to the court when the trial opens.
“The Presidency also advises the Nigerian media
to respect the sanctity of the legal and judicial
processes in this matter and avoid becoming
willing tools in the hands of Mr. Okah and his
agents in an entirely diversionary trial by the
media aimed only at falsely impugning the
character and integrity of the President and
officials of his administration.”

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True or false Bleep pdp

I won't comment on the central allegation but it is disgraceful to imagine our president is in contact with this type of character. Totally infra dig.

what is all these?

Everybody knows this truth. We will face it when he leaves office in May.

Change2015:
I won't comment on the central allegation but it is disgraceful to imagine our president is in contact with this type of character. Totally infra dig.

When MEND claim responsibility GEJ said "it's not MEND" does that ring a bell?

What happened to the associate of Chad president caught in Nigeria boarder with weapons meant for boko Haram! Th following week our oga visited chad and till date, nothin said abt the guy or chad president!

Hmmm..... Let's be wise oo

The gullible nigerians won't understand is that, Obj brought Jonathan n wen such person like obasanjo cld say Jonathan is destroying...u need sound mind to be able to decode what obj was referring. This is the same thing happening with BH insurgency. The escalation of BH is human made n for those who hv eyes to see, one will knw that Jonathan is behind the continuous killings of innocent lives in an efforts to use public opinion against the north. U shld wonder why Jonathan unmove wenever there is a bomb blast of any form @watever magnitude of casualties hence he's either dancing azonto in kano or attending birth @another place while hundreds of nigerians burn to death for jst his own tinin political ambition. His innocent look n pretence cn only capture the gullible ones...TANoids

iluvnaija:
When MEND claim responsibility GEJ said "it's not MEND" does that ring a bell?

I was disgusted! Truly. Why the haste, and why the need to comment at all? His stupidity is beyond compare, and he just brings no dignity to the position of President. The end is nigh.

#change
#GMB
#APC

This is old news, as it is increasingly clearer that he is also behind Boko Haram.

A youtube video clip of him publicly acknowledging Modu Sheriff as friend of the slain Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf, recently surfaced.

You would have thought that with such knowledge, he (Jonathan) as C in C he would have ordered the man's arrest; but no, instead he has himself been a friend and mentor to Modu Sheriff; giving him special military protection (about 200 soldiers guarding him so as to move around freely in Borno); hobnobbing with him to Chad to meet the head of that country; special privileges, such as opening a closed airport (declared as a security risk) for his friend to fly in and out of Maiduguri, at the exclusion of even the governor and pilgrims of that state.
[b]
There is a popular adage, which says: SHOW ME YOUR FRIENDS AND I'LL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE.
In short, Jonathan is a friend to Boko Haram, which also makes him Boko. [/b]Haram.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBfdhzYaABA