Alhaji Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo has described the claim by The All Progressives Congress (APC) that he was one of the Nigerians arrested by South African authorities with $9.3 million dollars as an outright lie.
In a telephone conversation with journalists, Asari-Dokubo said he was in Saudi Arabia on holy pilgrimage when the incident occurred in South Africa.
In a statement signed by its national publicity secretary, Lai Muhammed, the APC had claimed that Asari-Dokubo was in South Africa to purchase arms when he was arrested with another Nigerian and an Israeli.
“Nigerians will therefore like to know on whose behalf Asari Dokubo was purchasing arms. This is very crucial because Asari Dokubo has been threatening that Nigeria will not know peace if his benefactor, President Jonathan, is not re-elected. Therefore, Nigerians will like to know whether he has started stockpiling arms to make his threat a reality, since elections are due in a few months’ time.
“If these arms are meant to fight insurgency, as the government has claimed, what is Asari Dokubo’s business purchasing arms for the Nigerian military, if indeed they were for the military? Does it not occur to the Nigerian government that this man who once took arms against the state may not have jettisoned his sinister plan against the same state?,” Lai Mohammed said.
But Asari-Dokubo told journalist that he had not been to South Africa since 2002. He added that he had no South African visa, hence, he could not have entered the country.
He said, “Can you enter any country without a visa? No person can enter any country without a visa. Presently, I am in Saudi Arabia performing my Hajj as the Amirul Hajj of Bayelsa State and this can be confirmed. I flew Flynass from Kaduna on September 27. So, it is really a shame that Lai Mohammed who has defiled the name of Allah has become a pathological and award-winning liar.
“Nobody enters any country without a visa and I have not been to South Africa since 2002. I flew Arik airline from Lagos on the September 27 and went to Kaduna where I flew Flynass airline and came to Saudi Arabia.”
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