Earlier there had been a preview of an explosive interview with Muhammad Sanusi, Emir of Kano where he talked about how no one who touched Diezani Madueke survived, his relationship with Former President Goodluck Jonathan amongst other things.
Now the full interview with Forbes TV has been published Sanusi had written a letter to Jonathan in 2013, informing him that billions of dollars were being diverted from the accounts of NNPC.
Sanusi had written a letter to Jonathan in 2013, informing him that billions of dollars were being diverted from the accounts of NNPC and were missing, to the tune of almost $50bn.
He said that Minister of Transport Rotimi Amaechi had leaked this letter and that he’d even been threatened with jail by the former President when the latter got wind of the leak.
“In the middle of all these, the president called me and said I should see him at 3pm. I turned up at 3pm and the entire place had been swept.
“There was no one apart from security services. Eerie silence. I got to his office, it was just me and him. It was as if everybody had been asked to go. And so he says to me, he’s calling me because he is surprised that letter I wrote to him got to Obasanjo. I said I’m surprised too. He said he’s calling me because he thinks I know who gave Obasanjo the letter and I said no I don’t. He said the letter must have been leaked from the Central Bank and I said no, the letter was in different places.
“It was in the villa, it was in petroleum, it was in finance, it was in CBN. Either way, Obasanjo has been president so he lived in this villa for 8 years and he is more likely to have sources in this villa than inside the Central bank. He said he is convinced that the letter went from the central bank to Obasanjo, and I had 24 hours to find who leaked the letter or sack somebody; the director who prepared the letter or my secretary and if I did not sack them, that was proof that I leaked the letter and therefore, I should resign. I said to him that I’m surprised that I’m being asked to resign for raising an alarm over missing funds and the minister in charge of the portfolio is not being asked to resign.
“From then I knew I had signed my equivalent for death warrant. But I basically said I was not resigning. I said I had no intention of resigning. He got very angry once I mentioned the minister and said whether you like it or not, you’re going to leave that office, I cannot continue to work with you, either you or I will leave government.”
You can watch the full interview below.