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

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

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

One source familiar with Mr. Anyaoku’s desperate mission to President Buhari revealed that the former Commonwealth chief executive urged the new president to that Mr. Jonathan voluntarily decided not to contest the results of the March 28, 2015 presidential election, won by Mr. Buhari, on the understanding that he and his istration 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 yesterday where he sought to prevail on President Buhari 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, Mr. Jonathan had also asked former military head of state, Abdulsalam Abubakar, to speak to the current president and suggest a suspension of all ongoing probes. Mr. Buhari has put in place several investigative committees to probe the illicit withdrawal and disbursement of public funds by the Jonathan istration. The presidential committees are charged with advising the istration on strategies for retrieving any public assets stolen by officials and cohorts of the Jonathan Presidency.

One of the committees has already discovered that Mr. Jonathan and some 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 Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Ministry of Finance, the Nigerian Maritime Authority, the Federal Capital Territory, and several other departments. A source within the investigative committee revealed that Mr. Jonathan and his closest aides and political appointees made illegal withdrawals of funds to finance his failed bid for re-election.

Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stated that former President Jonathan asked her to withdraw more than $1.2 billion from the excess crude . Even though Mrs. Okonji-Iweala continues to maintain publicly that she did nothing wrong during her tenure, a source told SaharaReporters that the former minister, who coordinated economic affairs during the former president’s tenure, has been quietly cooperative with the Buhari istration. According to the source, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala has offered what amounts to a dossier of corrupt deals authorized by the former president.

In an attempt to curry favor with the new government, Mrs. 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 SaharaReporters. Prior to the 2015 general elections, the former minister’s fake polling organization kept repeating that Mr. Jonathan approval rating was up even as his political fortune plummeted.

SaharaReporters also learned that former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is also actively cooperating with the Buhari istration. As earlier revealed by us, Mrs. Alison-Madueke had struck a deal with the new government to submit a document to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) exposing her collaborators at the NNPC. The former Petroleum minister, who was one of the closest cabinet to Mr. Jonathan—and the mastermind of numerous money laundering deals on behalf of the former president—currently shuttles between the UK and Switzerland. A source close to Mrs. Alison-Madueke said the former minister was receiving treatment in the UK related to breast cancer.

After emerging from his marathon meeting with Mr. Buhari yesterday, Mr. Anyaoku claimed that he had visited to offer “advice” to the president regarding his forthcoming official trip to the US. Mr. Buhari is scheduled to start his US trip on Sunday.

A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that Mr. Anyaoku had misrepresented the purpose of his visit. “The elder statesman [Anyaoku] did not come to advise Mr. President about the trip to the US. The plans for the trip were already concluded a while ago, with all logistics and programming ,” the source added.

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

One source at the Presidency revealed that Mr. Buhari was not receptive to Mr. Anyaoku’s pleas. According to the source, the president told the former Commonwealth chief executive that the massive theft of funds by officials of the previous istration had robbed him of funds to start meeting his promises to the Nigerian people. “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,” the source added.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/16/former-commonwealth-secretary-anyaoku-jonathan%E2%80%99s-behest-begs-president-buhari-not-probe

propaganda or not, i believe the truth has a way of revealing itself...

APC propaganda arm @ work.

Paragraph 2 ..Several sources told SR ..
Paragraph 3 .. One of our sources ..
Paragraph 4 .. One source familiar to Anyaoku ..
Paragraph 5 .. Our source ..
Last paragraph started with a source and ended with a source.

Please somebori count the "sources of this junk article"


..Fifth columnists!

hit like if you think this is another propaganda from tinubu dogs to tarnish the good name of fomer president jonathan

“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,” the source added.

This isn't too much to ask for.

beg ko,Jonathan wont stoop dt low

cry me a river
tandroid and tanist this is just act1 scene1 of the downfall of Jonathan
most of d saTAN here tink its all lies nd propaganda
because them neva wanna knw d truth

GEJ pls return our money.... is dat too much to ask??

GEJ there hero.. our thief

kodded:
hit like if you think this is another propaganda from tinubu dogs to tarnish the good name of fomer president jonathan

ode hit like ko click like no,u haven't written anything meaningful in ur all life

smemud:
ode hit like ko click like no,u haven't written anything meaningful in ur all life

You think the bland hogwash you typed which is devoid of punctuation marks and uppercase letters is meaningful and it makes you Wole Soyinka? When would you quit drugs and check into rehab?

Anybody that's advising PMB to forgo probe of d fmr govt particularly the theft of our Commonwealth under the close supervision of GEJ does not mean well for Nigeria and PMB's political legacy.
Anyaoku and others have forgotten that at most in 4years time PMB would meet us at the polls again and if the truth be told more than 80% of people that voted him did so because of his pledge to tackle insecurity and corruption,not for his economic theories or other plans.
If Nigerians therefore do not see tangible results in this regard with substantial funds being recovered and diligent prosecution of looters carried out,then a 2nd term bid for the president would be in jeopardy apart from having his hard earned anti corruption reputation being rubbished.
This is one advice,if SR report is true,that is coming from enemies of PMB and not friends because its akin to killing his political career.

Can SaharaReporters stop generating traffic thru falsehood?

the headline is even too lame for these to be true - i don't believe it

I smell lies.

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,” the source added






This sums it up. Baba is not interested in sending people to jail, just return what u stole. Shikena

IT CANT BE TRUE. NA LIE JOOR.

TALES OF THE MOONLIGHT

Author- APC F.AGGOTS.

very sketchy news.

Jonathan will not belittle himself like that.... even if he does, it will be top secret. Not like this

Is he really panic stricken? ?

Some people don dey fear ..

story story.


sahara reporters are like radio Biafra.


too many fake reports

غ

Plead not accepted, u must be probe.

wanna use this medium to say THANK U to every who ed my campaign against these silly scammers on N.L (who claims to sell data bundle)..... this is also to inform every member of d forum d@... their case has been well dealt with... Never will they try such poo again.... once again thank u Though...i learnt my lesson too...

same sharia reporters that lied that deziane ran like Mary onyali to see buhari that is in the same plane with her. sharia reporters + punch ÷ vanguard = APC bullet

dunkem21:
APC propaganda arm @ work.
Paragraph 2 ..Several sources told SR ..
Paragraph 3 .. One of our sources ..
Paragraph 4 .. One source familiar to Anyaoku ..
Paragraph 5 .. Our source ..
Please somebori count the "sources of this junk article"
..Fifth columnists!

About 8 sources just to get this report, SR must be comedians...

One begins to wonder where the sources came from...Yeye dey smeII

Sahara Lies

Story

Coming back when the truth is out.

smemud:
ode hit like ko click like no,u haven't written anything meaningful in ur all life

no mind dat bros

Before hand over, Gej said he wasn't afraid of probe....

Now he is begging not to be probed.....


And this is the same man some people call their hero. ...

Am sure whoever created the word HERO will be turning in his/her grave due to how Nigerians have misused the word.