Jonathan Secretly Using Anyaoku To Beg President Buhari

Jonathan Secretly Using Anyaoku To Beg President Buhari

A panic-stricken Goodluck Jonathan has sent former Commonwealth Secretary General, Emeka Anyaoku, to plead with President Muhammadu Buhari not to launch an official probe of his administration.

Several sources in Abuja, including aides of President Buhari, briefed SR exclusively about former President Jonathan’s dispatch of Mr. Anyaoku as an emissary to his successor to beg.

One of the sources said Jonathan moved quickly to send powerful intercessors to the Presidency after Buhari administration began to question massive last-minute withdrawals and disappearance of more than $20b orchestrated by former President Jonathan as well as his closest ministers and aides.

Sahara Reporters source familiar with Mr. Anyaoku’s desperate mission to President Buhari revealed that the former Commonwealth chief executive urged the President to remember that Jonathan voluntarily decided not to contest the results of the March 28, 2015 presidential election, won by Buhari, on the understanding that he and his administration would not be subjected to a probe.

Our sources disclosed that Mr. Anyaoku spent a little more than two hours in a close-door meeting where he sought to prevail on President Buhari on Wednesday to halt the ongoing probe of what happened to billions of public funds during the last few months of the Jonathan government.

Before imploring Mr. Anyaoku to plead with President Buhari, Jonathan had also asked former military head of state, Abdulsalam Abubakar, to speak to the President and suggest a suspension of all ongoing probes.

Buhari has put in place investigative committees to probe the illicit withdrawal and disbursement of public funds by the Jonathan administration. The committees are charged with advising the administration on strategies for retrieving money stolen by officials and cohorts of the Jonathan Presidency.

One of the committees has already discovered that Jonathan and some members of his cabinet apparently colluded in the dying days of the previous government to loot billions of dollars. The funds were looted via the Central Bank of Nigeria, the NNPC, the Ministry of Finance, the Nigerian Maritime Authority, the Federal Capital Territory, and several other departments.

In an attempt to curry favor with the new government, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala recently directed officials of her polling agency, NOI Polls, to give President Buhari a 70% approval rating among Nigerians. “The polling results were simply cooked up,” a professional pollster told SR. Prior to the 2015 general elections, the former minister’s fake polling organization kept repeating that Jonathan approval rating was up even as his political fortune plummeted.

SR also learned that former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is cooperating with the Buhari administration. As earlier revealed, Mrs. Alison-Madueke had struck a deal with the new government to submit a document to the EFCC exposing her collaborators at the NNPC.

Former President Jonathan is currently in Abuja where he remains in constant touch with Abdulsalam and other political players to prevail on President Buhari to halt the probe of his administration.

One source at the Presidency revealed that Buhari was not receptive to Anyaoku’s pleas. According to the source, the President Anyaoku that the massive theft of funds by officials of the previous administration had robbed Nigeria of funds to serve the masses.

The source added: “The president’s concern is for everybody who stole funds, including the former president, to disclose their willingness to return their loot to the Nigerian people.”