Jonathan, Abacha’s son in closed-door meeting

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday met behind closed-door with
Mohammed Abacha, son of a former Head of State, the late Gen. Sani
Abacha, on issues suspected to bother on the forthcoming primaries of
the Peoples Democratic Party.
Abacha is a governorship aspirant of the PDP in Kano State.
Governorship primaries of the party hold nationwide on Monday.
At the end of the meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the
aspirant told State House correspondents that he was confident that
the PDP would recover its stolen mandate from the All Progressives
Congress in the state during the 2015 general elections.
He said he was hopeful that he would clinch the party's ticket.
He said, "We are hopeful; I wouldn't want to say too much. I said it
before that it was a PDP state; it was a PDP ticket. It was taken or
converted or even stolen; whatever you want to call it, so be it. The
chances of the PDP are still bright."
It will be recalled that the Federal Government had in June withdrawn
the N446.3bn theft charges instituted against the younger Abacha.
The government had preferred the nine counts of stealing against him
in February 2014.
The prosecution accused Abacha of unlawfully receiving about N446.3bn
allegedly stolen from government's coffers between 1995 and 1998.
Government later asked Justice Mamman Kolo of the High Court of the
Federal Capital Territory, in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, to strike out the
charges on the grounds of "fresh facts" that just emerged concerning
the case.
The government's decision attracted criticisms from individuals and groups.
Those who flayed the action included prominent Lagos lawyers – Femi
Falana, Jiti Ogunye, Fred Agbaje and Femi Aborisade – as well as the
Chairman of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adeniran;
and his Civil Society Network Against Corruption counterpart, Mr.
Lanre Suraj.
While some of the lawyers argued that the government action had
serious negative implications for the country's anti-graft campaign,
Adeniran and Suraj said it had a political undertone.