The Amalgamation for Greater Nigeria has urged the court which freed Major Hamza Al-Mustapha of murder charges to arrest former President Olusegun Obasanjo for contempt because of his claim in a letter to President Jonathan that the verdict was influenced.
The group said: “We urge the Court of Appeal to arrest and charge Obasanjo for contempt in describing its judgment as being influenced. Government should also open investigations into the deadly massacres of hundreds of innocent civilians in Odi and Zaki Biam on Obasanjo’s directives.”
In a statement weekend, the group equally urged President Goodluck Jonathan not to dismiss the allegations in the December 2 letter but set up a high-powered investigation panel and involve the international community to investigate Obasanjo whom they believe is up to some grievous mischief.
A press statement issued in Abuja by Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, the group’s national director, media and public relations said: “Instead of dismissing the contents of the letter, the Presidency should investigate the issues raised particularly, the allegation that the Federal Government is training a strike force to carry out terrorist attacks on political opponents ahead 2015 elections.”
The group condemned Obasanjo as the mastermind and initiator of all the atrocities he accused Jonathan of, including condoning corruption, ethnic politics, insincerity and disrespect for gentleman agreements in all dealings.
The AGN also advised Major Hamza Al-Mustapha to challenge Obasanjo to provide proof of his claims that President Jonathan influenced the final outcome of his fourteen-year-long trial as well as solid evidence that that he is being used to run an assassination squad to target Jonathan’s opponents.
The group lamented that for an Army General and one who ruled Nigeria for about 10 years on two separate occasions to deliberately create the impression that the respected Court of Appeal that gave the Al-Mustapha verdict was unduly influenced by President Jonathan, is disturbing, worrisome and outright contemptuous.
“It is unfortunate for Obasanjo whose only qualification as member of the National Council of State is the expectation for him to uphold and safeguard the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at all times to now deliberately insult the nation’s judiciary which is a major constitutional institution,” the group said.
AGN insisted that the allegation that Al-Mustapha is being used by Jonathan to run an assassination squad is merely an expression of
Obasanjo’s warped idea of executive power as demonstrated by the yet unsolved cases of the assassinations of Bola Ige, Harry Marshal, Chuba Okadigbo under his administration.
The group urged the security agencies to investigate Obasanjo’s claims as his antecedents have proved him a very dangerous element in the society that is not safe to be free.
AGN warned that since Obasanjo has failed to eschew the deep-seated animosity he harbours against the late General Sani Abacha which he is translating unto Al-Mustapha, they will sponsor a public debate for the Major and Obasanjo on the unresolved issues of the unexplained deaths of General Abacha, Chief M.K.O. Abiola and of course the assassination of General Murtala Mohamme