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Okah: Jonathan behind bombings in 2010 - It’s not true – Presidency

Written by - Thursday, 03 May 2012 05:04

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A senior Niger Delta militant undergoing trial in South Africa is alleging that President Jonathan was behind two bombings in 2010—one in Abuja on Independence Day and the other in Delta State seven months earlier.

Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), who is standing trial over the deadly October 1 bombing near the Eagle Square, is making the claims against Jonathan in a sworn affidavit to be filed next week.

Details of the affidavit were published by Premium Times website yesterday, in which Okah said the president and those working for him engineered the blasts as a desperate political strategy.

He said while the Abuja bomb was meant to galvanise opposition against northern leaders ahead of the 2011 election, the bombing in Delta was to create an atmosphere of insecurity so as to upstage Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and replace him with Godsay 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,” Okah said in the affidavit, according to the website.

But the Presidency yesterday denied Okah’s claims.

“The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to reports in the media of allegations made against President Goodluck 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,” Jonathan’s spokesman Reuben Abati said in a statement.

“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.”

Okah was arrested in October 2010 in the wake of the Independence Day bombing. He had lost his bail bid, which he now wants to renew through the affidavit.

His trial is set to start on October 1, exactly two years since the incident that occurred close to the Eagle Square in Abuja where President Jonathan was attending Nigeria’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

MEND had claimed responsibility for the attack, but Okah has denied membership of the group and plotting the attacks.

In his affidavit, Okah said Jonathan and his aides organised the attacks to demonise political opponents and win popular sympathy ahead of the 2011 elections.

“The bombing on 1 October 2010 was a platform for the elimination of political opposition from the North in the form of General Ibrahim Babangida. The bombing of 1 October 2010 was also intended by the President Goodluck Jonathan Government to create anti-North sentiments nationwide in order to galvanise support from other sections of Nigeria against other northern candidates in the Presidential elections,” Okah said in a 194-page affidavit.

“The purpose of the 14 March 2010 bombing in my opinion was to create an atmosphere of insecurity in the 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,” he said. He said he was in touch with the president’s close aides when the October 1, 2010 bomb went off, and had no inkling his arrest was being planned.

Okah first made allegations linking the Independence Day bomb with Jonathan’s aides in an interview with Al Jazeera television weeks after the blast. In the interview, he 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.”

Okah said he had a long-standing relationship with Jonathan which started in 1999 while he was deputy governor of Bayelsa state. He claimed he was close to Jonathan such that Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, then a minister of Mines and Steel, sought for his support for the President to pick her as petroleum minister.

“The last call I received from Ms Madueke was at 6:41:35 on 4 April 2010 during which she thanked me for my contribution in influencing her appointment as Minister of Petroleum,” he said.


Download the full 42 pages of Okah's affidavit here:
 http://premiumtimesng.com/news/4925-the_henry_okah_affidavit_on_jonathan_and_bomb_blasts.html

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“I knew Goodluck Jonathan when he worked with DESOP.ADEC in Port Harcourt. He is a person who puts up a facade of good boy, while beneath, he is a devious and corrupt man. While he was governor of Bayelsa State, he ran the state under the mud. Imagine Jonathan approving a contract of NGN150 Billion Naira for the supply of law books for the Bayelsa State Ministry of Justice library? While the money was fully paid, there was nothing to show for it. Such profligacy and arrant corruption to ruin his home state! While I defended my Ph.D degree at UNIPORT, Jonathan could not successfully supervise one Master thesis conclusively. The road from Port Harcourt to Yenagoa is in a terrible state. The major highway to Jonathan’s state is in shambles and for him all is fine!
 
See the kind of clueless, devious and corrupt person now standing as President of Nigeria. Do you know that those two children of Jonathan were not delivered by Patience Jonathan? The lady who delivered those children for Jonathan is the younger sister of Diezani Allison Madueke. This is the connection between Jonathan and Diezani Allison Madueke, who is now the major conduit pipe for looting Nigeria’s huge proceeds from crude oil sale. And of course, the Diezani is also looting money for herself and her family. So, if there is no drastic action, Jonathan will not remove Diezani as Minister of Petroleum. I have not even delved into the role being played by Patience Jonathan to loot our treasury through senseless allocations not covered by the budget but made to the office of the said First Lady.
 
Henry Okah is not a mad man. Recall the rush with which Goodluck Jonathan personally announced after the Eagle Square bombing that MEND was not responsible before Henry Okah refuted that claim? This fully lends credence to Okah’s assertion. I know for a fact that Jonathan has a strike force within the SSS made up of Ijaw operatives. I just wonder if this is the strike force Jonathan used to carry out that dastardly bombing of the Eagle Square in order to put Babangida and Buhari in the bad books of Nigerians. Without SSS insider info, how would a bomb laden car have breached all the layers of security at the Eagle Square?
 
Now for the Warri bombing. I am certain that Edwin Clark has been prodding Jonathan to do everything within his power to create a roadblock for Uduaghan. I know for certain that while Edwin Clark was publicly saying he wanted an Urhobo man to replace Uduaghan, secretly, from the discussions I heard in Edwin Clark’s house in Asokoro (off T.Y. Danjuma Drive), Abuja, their real motive and plan is to bring Godsday Peter Orubebe to become governor of Delta State. Now that the PDP structure of Delta state has been placed in the hands of Orubebe and Edwin Clark, it is now apparent that it is an Ijaw man that Jonathan wants to impose upon Delta State. This was after the Warri covert bombing failed to achieve its original objective. Again, this lends strong credence to the assertions by Henry Okah.
 

The U.S. CIA had drawn up an intelligence report that Nigeria would break up by 2015. Instead of Jonathan to focus his attention on rectifying the anomalies in the federating structure of Nigeria and take steps to set up a constitutional conference/drafting committee and save Nigeria from war and collapse, Goodluck Jonathan is rather accelerating the break-up and total destruction of Nigeria as a united nation.
Note that those Ijaw people supporting Jonathan in all these perfidy are not doing him any good. What would do the Ijaws a ton of good is a review of the obnoxious Land Use Law made by Obasanjo to deprive them and other oil producing areas direct control of the proceeds from the crude oil being extracted everyday from their land. That is what a South South president should focus on correcting, not looting and destroying Nigeria” by Otokutu Solomon.


NIGERIANS AWAKE, NIGERIANS AWAKE, NIGERIANS AWAKE. 

“Who did Jonathan pick as National Security Adviser after General Aliyu Gusau has resigned in 2010? He returned General Andrew O. Azazi! Who did Jonathan and Azazi found most befitting to run the SSS? They returned Col. LKK Are! Where is Sunny Okah, the chief gunrunner? He is in the villa assisting the President, especially in the prosecution of his brother who masterminded the Oct. 1 bombings in Abuja. To whom has Jonathan and Azazi contracted the security of our maritime domain? Niger Delat militant Tampolo” By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde

President Jonathan said to the world that he knows who are behind the Boko Haram; he claimed that they are in his government. Also, Azazi recently blames PDP for Boko Haram and now Henry Okah in a sworn affidavit blames Jonathan for 1st of Oct bombings. Now, the crux of the question should be why is Jonathan not naming people behind Boko Haram, if his hands are clean? How many more lives should be sacrificed before innocent Nigerians regain their peace? 


President Jonathan MUST REVEAL THE NAMES OF PEOPLE HE CLAIMED ARE BEHIND BOKO HARAM OR RESIGN GRACEFULLY TO SAVE LIVES.