Jonathan Holds Meeting With Abacha’s Son

Reports just coming in indicate that President
Goodluck Jonathan on Friday met behind closed-door
with Mohammed Abacha, a son of a former Head of
State, the late Gen. Sani Abacha.
Though the details of the meeting were not available as
at press time, Punch reports that the meeting was
suspected to bother on the forthcoming primaries of the
Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State.
Abacha is a governorship aspirant of the PDP in
Kano State and governorship primaries of the party
hold nationwide on Monday.
Speaking at the end of the meeting held at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja, the aspirant told State
House correspondents that he was confident that the
PDP would recover its stolen mandate from the All
Progressives Congress in the state during the 2015
general elections.

He said he was hopeful that he would clinch the party’s
ticket.
“We are hopeful; I wouldn’t want to say too much. I
said it before that it was a PDP state; it was a PDP
ticket. It was taken or converted or even stolen;
whatever you want to call it, so be it. The chances of
the PDP are still bright,” he said.
It will be recalled that the Federal Government had in
June withdrawn the N446.3bn theft charges instituted
against the younger Abacha.
The government had preferred the nine counts of
stealing against him in February 2014.

The prosecution accused Abacha of unlawfully receiving
about N446.3bn allegedly stolen from government’s
coffers between 1995 and 1998.
Government later asked Justice Mamman Kolo of the
High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, in
Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, to strike out the charges on the
grounds of “fresh facts” that just emerged concerning the
case.
The government’s decision attracted criticisms from
individuals and groups.
Those who flayed the action included prominent Lagos
lawyers – Femi Falana, Jiti Ogunye, Fred Agbaje
and Femi Aborisade – as well as the Chairman of the
Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo
Adeniran; and his Civil Society Network Against
Corruption counterpart, Mr. Lanre Suraj.
While some of the lawyers argued that the government
action had serious negative implications on the country’s
anti-graft campaign, Adeniran and Suraj said it had a
political undertone.