“I thought he was going to say the man has refunded millions of dollars he stole when he was in office,” said an angry reporter who covered the briefing.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, made the wild claim at a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday.
Okupe told astonished journalists, “In truth, Alamieyeisegha since he left prison has been working strenuously and silently to assist the President stabilize the amnesty in the Niger Delta region.
“Alamieseigha is a foremost leader of the Ijaw Nation, and his political and stabilizing influence in that region has impacted positively on the overall economy of the nation, bringing crude oil exports from the abysmally low level of 700,000bpd to over 2.4million bpd.”
Okupe, the attack dog who came to the presidency last year with serious ethical questions of his own, added that Alamieseigha, who is still wanted by British authorities, can be credited with ensuring that the blood running through Nigeria's economic artery is not cut off.
Seeking to find comfortable parallels on which to hang the issue of the discredited former governor and a president whose credibility continues to plunge, he likened Alamieseigha’s pardon to that of the late Obafemi Awolowo and that of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, stressing that they were once pardoned by the state. He forgot to say that none of those men stole from children and the poor who were under their charge.
Jonathan, through Okupe, insist that Alamieseigha has repented!
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