Posted on: 01:49 Fri, 22 Jan 2016



A lawyer defending Sambo Dasuki in court
appears to have indicted former president,
Goodluck Jonathan, in the ongoing arms deal
probe in Nigeria.

Ahmed Raji, one of the lawyers of Sambo
Dasuki, the embattled former National Security
Adviser to Jonathan, stated that the arms deal
probe cannot be discussed without reference to
Jonathan.

“The national security adviser will normally carry
out the instructions of his president,” Ahmed
Raji told AFP.

“You cannot talk about this matter without
talking about President Jonathan,” he added.

It is unclear if President Muhammadu Buhari
will go after his predecessor, with many political
analysts claiming that Buhari will most likely not
to do so.

It would be recalled that when Buhari was voted
into power in 2015, he said in his acceptance
speech last April that: “President Jonathan has
nothing to fear from me,” adding that, “Let’s put
the past behind us, especially the recent past.”

But with the prosecution of Dasuki, a powerful
member of Jonathan’s administration, the
former head of state could yet be dragged into
the case.