Former Head of State and chairman of the
2015 General elections Peace Committee, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar
yesterday said he had not been intervening to stop the probe of any
minister by the incoming government. He spoke yesterday after a meeting at the Presidential Villa.
President-elect Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
has declared his intention to investigate the activities of key
ministries after his inauguration. Minister of Petroleum, Mrs Diezani
Alison-Madueke, was reported to be lobbying the former Head of State to
intervene on her behalf.
Yesterday at the Villa, Gen. Abubakar
and the minister arrived few minutes apart at President Goodluck
Jonathan’s office at the Villa. Gen Abdulsalami told reporters who asked
him whether he attended a meeting with the minister of petroleum as
part of the alleged plan tom intervene on her behalf: “I think people
are just trying to be mischievous, I have been meeting with a lot of
people and a lot of ministers in the course of this transition. So there
is nothing strange in me meeting with anybody.
“I wonder if you go through the records
to see the number of meetings I have been engaged in, I don’t know why
the last one will be a subject of media chat. “This is not the first time I have been
meeting with her and a number of ministers, so I don’t see what the
whole hullabaloo is all about. People are just being mischievous.” On why he visited the President, he
said: “As the chairman of the peace committee, there is always
interaction between the incoming administration and President Jonathan
in order to ensure that the peace we have been able to get is
sustained.”
Asked if serving as intermediary between
Buhari and Jonathan was necessary, he said: “I’m not serving as an
intermediary. I told you I’m coming here as the chairman of peace
committee and naturally we have to interact, I go and see Gen. Buhari
and I also see the President all in an effort to make sure than that
this transition goes on smoothly and we maintain the peace.”
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