Nigerian Author and former aide to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri has reacted to the verdict by a British court ordering an Irish firm, Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (Messrs P&ID) to seize 20 per cent in assets, of Nigeria’s foreign reserves, amounting to $9bn (£7.4bn), over failed Gas project dating back 2010. Reno reacting to the judgment and claims by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration blaming previous Government for the failed Gas project, released a statement saying former President Goodluck Jonathan’s hands are clean.
Reno Omokri who has been a constant critic of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and the ruling party of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his statement, said President Muhammadu Buhari and his propagandists are in overdrive mode trying to make a case against former President Goodluck Jonathan on the Messrs P&ID verdict, saying neither former President Goodluck Jonathan nor his administration is responsible for the $9 billion judgment against Nigeria in the United Kingdom.
Reno stating his facts about the case said the former President Goodluck Jonathan was still the Vice President when the deal was signed, and knows nothing about it, due to how he was treated by the then cabals in the late President Yar’adua’s administration.
See his full statement:
The Truth About P & ID and the $9 Billion UK Judgment Debt Against Nigeria. Jonathan’s Hands Are Clean General
President Muhammadu Buhari and his propagandists are in overdrive mode trying to make a case against former President Goodluck Jonathan on the Messrs P&ID verdict
Neither former President Goodluck Jonathan nor his administration are responsible for the $9 billion judgment against Nigeria in the United Kingdom in a case brought against the nation by Messrs P & ID. And as usual, I will present the facts.
Messrs P&ID claimed to enter a gas supply and processing agreement with Nigeria’s Ministry of Petroleum Resources in January 2010. At that time, former President Jonathan was not in power. He has absolutely NOTHING to do with that contract the PID transaction was sealed in January of 2010.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan was not President in January 2010. At that time, he was completely shut out of power by an unelected cabal that ran Nigeria during the period of the ill health of the late President Yar’adua
The cabal not only excluded Goodluck Jonathan from government, but went beyond that to take documents, including budgets and contracts, to Saudi Arabia, and claimed that the then ailing President Umaru Yar’adua signed them on his sickbed.
Nigerians may recall that the cabal announced on December 28, 2009, that Yar’adua signed a supplementary budget and other documents from his sickbed in Saudi Arabia, without the foreknowledge or acquiescence of then Vice President Goodluck Jonathan
or the Federal Cabinet
In fact, a week later, the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) came out with an exposé alleging that the signatures on the documents were forged and Femi Falana (SAN) took up the case in court.
The man who packaged and arranged the signing of the contract with P & ID was a member of the cabal and Yar’adua’s minister for petroleum, the late Rilwanu Lukman.
The same cabal has resurrected and has now coalesced around President Muhammadu Buhari with some made either ministers, or formal and informal advisers. As a matter of fact, the main man behind that cabal is now one of the closest persons to General Buhari.
Nigerians may want to note that while this controversial contract was signed in January of 2010, former President Jonathan only became acting President on February 9, 2010.
So, if the Buhari administration is looking for someone to blame for this judgment against Nigeria, it should look at its own cabal.
In General Muhammadu Buhari’s Nigeria, people no longer go to the market to haggle over the price of goods. Now, Nigerians haggle with kidnappers.
Sadly, we are now used to headlines like this: Kidnappers Reduce Ransom on Pastor from 100 to 50 Million. Who will save us from Buhari?
Life in Nigeria under Buhari is SHORT, BRUTISH and filled with ANXIETIES.
Do you know that foreign company take out kidnap insurance before sending their staff to Nigeria? Herdsmen treat Nigeria like a conquered territory. What a life! Who will save us from Buhari?