LEADERSHIP Weekend : According to one of the sources,“Sanusi had been under investigation and once he knew that he was having a bad case as a result of the report of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria which indicted him severally, he began making unguarded utterances against the president, especially the alleged corruption in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which he failed to proof... His thinking was that doing that would help his case either to stop his imminent sack or to win him the public sympathy when the time is due for his removal.” On when the move to remove Sanusi started, the source said: “Left to the Economic Team of the Jonathan administration, Sanusi would have been thrown out of office since. Here is a man who does not know the etiquette of the office he was holding. Imagine him telling the president that he could not remove him from office without the two- thirds support of the Senate?” Another source in the Presidential Villa said Sanusi had been inciting disaffection against President Jonathan and his government with a view to stopping his second-term ambition as typified with his hair-raising allegation of unaccounted money against the NNPC. He said: “Sanusi has been flirting with the opposition and his allegations are be ing used to criticise the president. His donations were without the consent of the Presidency and he criticised government policies publicly.” LEADERSHIP Weekend learnt that the team set up by the government had already discovered that all of Sanusis donations were concentrated in a section of the country, especially in the opposition-controlled states, while most of the N190 billion worth of projects were concentrated in the north. This, sources said,0 failed the federal character test. It was also gathered that, based on the panels findings, Sanusi might be accused of empowering perceived enemies of the government through contract awards. A former minister has been fingered as one of the major beneficiaries of the contracts worth several billions of naira. In the “sack letter” signed by the secretary to the government of the federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, he said the Presidency had lost confidence in Sanusi due to his financial recklessness, waste and impunity and that he v iolated the Public Procurement Act ...
Posted on: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:12:03 +0000
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