$2.1bn arms scandal: Maku vows to explode soon

A former Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr. Labaran Maku, said he would tell his “views about everything that is going on” on the $2.1bn arms deal scandal involving the ex-National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo
Dasuki (retd).

Maku, who is the General Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, also faulted the planned N17bn airport project by Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, describing it as an avenue to steal and warned commercial banks not to give N26bn loan to the governor.

According to him, if the governor insists on an airport, what Nasarawa State’s people need now is an airstrip, “and not an airport of N17bn.”

Speaking with journalists at the national secretariat of APGA in Abuja, the ex-Minister said, “I don’t want to comment on this administration now because I was in the previous government as Minister of Information and our voice was all over the nation. Decency requires that I keep quiet and let Nigerians hear other voices. That doesn’t mean I will not say anything, but it is virtually too early for me as a former Minister of Information to begin to talk about what is going on at the moment.

“So it is not correct; when you have spoken so long and people have heard your voice, you also withdraw and hear others. I have my views about everything that is going on now. When the time is due, when I have respected public decency, waited and have heard some other Nigerians, I will make my views known. “But for now, it is too early for me to say anything. The processes that are going on are in the full glare of Nigerians and what I will say is that the media should be very careful. That’s my advice and I will not say anything else.”

Maku said he had gone to the Supreme Court to appeal against the verdict of the Makurdi Division of the Court of Appeal. He insisted that Al Makura didn’t win the election, but sitting on APGA seat because of electoral crimes that were committed against him over ethno-religious reasons.

He said, “What happened in Nasarawa State between April 11 and 13, 2015 was worse than June 12, 1993 presidential election. The situation is now worse that even admission into Nasarawa State University was conducted on ethno-religious grounds. Ironically, this is a state where Muslims, Christians and traditional worshippers are equal in number.”


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