Rev. Father Mathew Kukah, has denied that former President Goodluck Jonathan contacted the National Peace Committee for the 2015 general election to beg President Buhari on his behalf.<\/p>\n
\u200eThe media was recently awash with the news that the meeting, held \u200eThursday night between Buhari and Jonathan was initiated because the former president sought for understanding on alleged corrupt practices and mismanagement of funds under his administration.<\/p>\n
The report claimed that he was hearing about some of the graft allegations for the first time.\u200e<\/p>\n
Fielding questions from State House correspondents after a meeting with President Buhari, Kukah said: \u201c\u200eAnybody is free to come to our committee, but former President Jonathan never by telephone or another means talked to the committee. We went to see him, but that is after we had already seen members of the political parties, members of the civil society. We planned to see the Speaker because we couldn\u2019t see him yesterday (Monday).<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very planned series of interventions, essentially just to hear out everybody and I think the good news is that Nigerians are committed to a new nation, they are committed to ensuring that the gains and blessings God has given us come to fruition\u201d.<\/p>\n
On why the intervention has become necessary, the Cleric said: \u201c\u200eThis is not an intervention, it is a hearing out process. We just had an election; it was like a wedding. But now is the reality of government \u2013 now the marriage and people need to be encouraged. We need to reaffirm that this is our country and the only thing we can collectively be opposed to is injustice, inequity, corruption and in that regard we all had one single conversation.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200eThe President has also reaffirmed the need for this committee to continue, and the international community has very much welcomed the contributions of the committee. Essentially we are not policing, but when the need arises, we help to build confidence in the process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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