The Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Services Ltd. and the Publisher of The
AUTHORITY newspapers, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, has advised the Federal
Government to consult some Nigerians who can halt the free fall of the Naira
which is affecting the nation’s economy.
He said that if the Federal Government consults him, he could restore the
nation’s currency to an exchange rate of N200 to one US Dollar within one
month – thereby arresting the slide in the Naira which is virtually crippling
the economy. The Naira currently exchanges at N385 to the US dollar.
Chief Ubah, who was speaking on a Channels Television politics programme,
did not say how he was going to bring the Naira down to an exchange rate of 200
per dollar – but said the government could seize everything he owns if he
failed to do this within one month, if given the mandate.
Chief Ubah also affirmed that he was not involved in any way whatsoever in
the $2.3 billion Dasukigate arms deal that involved the former National
Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki.
He said he was not involved in the politics of contracts and has never
done any government contracts, whether at the Federal, state or local
government levels.
“I am highly misunderstood, sometimes controversial. But I have never done
any government contracts. I did not collect any money from Government; I do
not have an oil block – and I have not asked for one.”
He said following the controversies trailing the ‘Dasukigate’, it has become
necessary for him to extricate him from allegations that himself and the
non-governmental organization, Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN),
were in anyway involved in the sharing of the arms deal money.
The arms deal is the albatross of the former National Security Adviser,
NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki and many others close to the administration of former
President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said the TAN, was not a political organisation, even though it campaigned
for the re-election of the former President, a development which he said was
based on its belief in promoting a better Nigeria and sustaining her unity.
“I did not know Dasuki. TAN never received money from Dasuki or the
People’s Democratic Party. We did what we did in the interest of the nation
and for posterity.”
“I’m a politician with a mind-set of making life worth living for the
people, when issues seem to be getting out of hand. So TAN has no hand in
whatever that has to do with the arms deal fund”.
Expressing disgust with what is being unravelled in the ‘Dasukigate’, Ubah
said that it was a disgrace in which everyone involved must be adequately
investigated and punished, to serve as deterrent to others.
He urged former President Jonathan to speak up on the arms deal scandal in
order to shed more light on what really happened over the arms deal.
He advised that owing to the gravity of the allegations and revelations
emerging from the probe of Dasukigate, it is high time Jonathan breaks his
silence and set the records straight.
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