The former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, Sani
Abacha, Hamza Al-Mustapha, has challenged former president Olusegun
Obasanjo to an open debate. This is in reaction to Obasanjo’s letter to
President Goodluck Jonathan in which he alleged that he (Al-Mustapha)
was released from prison to help the president train snipers to
assassinate political opponents.
Al-Mustapha
bore his mind and challenged the ex-president to a public debate on the
allegations, while speaking to the Hausa Service of the Voice of
America, VOA, which was monitored in Abuja on Wednesday.
While
admitting that Obasanjo did not mention his name in the controversial
open letter, he said that he knew the former president’s assertions were
about him.
He expressed disappointment at the
former president’s approach: “If he has anything to say on me, he should
mention me directly or even challenge me and not make allusions.”
Al-Mustapha
vehemently denied the allegations supposedly made by Obasanjo, claiming
that training assassins to hunt the president’s political opponents
contradicts his known passion for supporting people from Northern
Nigeria especially within the military.
He
said: “I read Obasanjo’s letter and subsequent comments by Nigerians, I
would have responded immediately, but I was away in India receiving
treatment.
“Perhaps it is Obasanjo and his cronies that are planning what he was insinuating.”
Al-Mustapha
also said: “From 1974 to the present, a lot of things are buried with
all sorts of lies, but all would be revealed one day.
“I urge everyone to pray for Obasanjo to accept my challenge for a public debate so that the truth will come out,” he said.
Source: Channels
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