Hajiya Najatu Mohammed is a well-known politician from Kano state.She is fearless and very outspoken. Aside from being a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC , Hajiya Naja as she is fondly called is also known to be a close political associate of President Muhammadu Buhari.
As Buhari settles in Nigeria’s president , Naja says there are already troubling signs from those seeking to subvert the rule of law .In this interview held Friday August 14, 2015 in Abuja , by Danlami Nmodu, the publisher/editor-in-chief of Newsdiaryonline, she expresses her fears that the forces that conspired against Buhari while he was military head of state are back seeking to scuttle the commendable anti-corruption moves of tHIhe President.
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Q:What do you make of the continuing meeting of this (Peace) Committee with President Buhari?
A:This Committee is a useless one. It’s a very corrupt one.Because let us first look at the reasons behind creating the so-called peace committee.Like they said the peace committee is supposed to inculcate or garner support for peaceful election
A:Don’t forget that the committee comprises respected citizens?
A:No they are not respected citizens.With due respect, they are not respected.Respected by whom?Respected by (the fact that ) they created themselves or were created by the former president?They are not respected because you have to take each and everyone of them and look at the interest that each and everyone of them represents and look at what they have done when they were in a position of power.
Q:Can you explain that?
A:Take the Sultan of Sokoto (Saad Abubakar ) for Instance,when Diezani was being investigated by the national Assembly under (ex Speaker Aminu) Tambuwal,where did she run to.She ran to the Sultan of Sokoto who is heading the Sokoto Emirate and Tambuwal is right under him.He called Tambuwal and cautioned him against it(investigating Diezani).Why did he do that?
Q:Are you saying this as a fact?
A:Yes, Iam saying this as a fact.Let him deny it and I will give you more information.That was what he did.Look at (Pastor Ayo) Oritsejafor, he was a member of the PDP that was in Jonathan’s support group.He was the one whose aircraft was caught smuggling Dollars into South Africa.And he had no business using his aircraft to smuggle arms or money into any,because like he said, his aircraft was supposed to have been hired.But it was not supposed to be hired in the first place, it’s a private jet.
Naja latest 1Q:If I may go back to the Sultan issue,why would Diezani go to the Sultan and what was Sultan’s response ?
A:Because of his influence in Sokoto generally.Only in Sokoto.It is only in Sokoto that he has influence.I don’t think ..he is the Sarkin Musulmi like they say.He is the Sultan of Sokoto-he is just like the Emir of Kano.The Emir of Kano has a lot of influence in Kano – of course for those who want to be influenced by him.You know, because this is a free world,this is a democracy.We follow whom we follow whom we want to follow.When we want, we allow ourselves to be influenced by whom we want to influence,but of course these are cultural (things).For cultural reasons, some people respect leaders even if they are corrupt leaders.I’m not one of them.And so many people are not like that because we owe no allegiance to anybody anymore.But we are obliged to be influenced by leaders that are upright and that have concerns for their followers
Q:So Diezani wanted the Sultan to stop the probe?
A:And he did.
Q:By the national assembly?
A:Yes.If you stifle,if you arm-twist Tambuwal, you arm-twist the whole national Assembly.At the end of the day,she did not only stop at that but she also went to court and stopped everything-the corruption in the courts of course.But going back to what the Committee is doing,you see ,Nigerians are sick and tired..
Q:No ma, you are trying to allege that the Sultan arm-twisted Tambuwal
A:Yes he did
Q;To stop probing Diezani
A:Yes and they did.There is no reason for her to go to the Sultan in the first place.She has no business going to kneel before the Sultan..And then Oritsejafor has over and over again accused Moslems of killing Christians.Was he helping the peace?And when Moslems were being massacred ,he never uttered a word.So what he was doing was to divide and to rule.So who cares about Oritsejafor and whose interest was he protecting.His personal interest and the interest of the president who had given him so much.That was president Jonathan.And then who is next.Who are those in the Committee.
