Presidential candidate of the Action Alliance, Hamza Al-Mustapha, says he has never stolen public funds.
Al-Mustapha was chief security officer to the late General Sani Abacha who was military Head of State between 1993 and 1998. Many years after his death, Abacha’s loots are still being repatriated to Nigeria from around the world.
“I don’t have money, I have never stolen N10. I challenged two governments; I challenged Abdulsalam Abubakar’s government, and I challenged (Olusegun) Obasanjo’s government. They searched,” Al-Mustapha said on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm aired on Tuesday.
“I was ransacked by bigger international investigative agencies (and the) police. My eyes and thumbprint were taken all around the whole world and they saw nothing. But rather than tell the whole world my clean record, they kept it aside.”
According to him, the persons who falsely accused him of murder, attempted coup, drug trafficking and money laundering allegations did a “disservice” but he has forgiven them.
“I faced 14 judges in 15 years and that has been cleared and there is no iota of it,” he stated.
Al-Mustapha said his detractors wanted to take his life through legal and illegal means because they wanted to take over Abacha’s money after taking over power.
“Why did they want to kill me? It is simply because of what I know. I found myself in a situation where I refused to compromise Nigeria and that refusal has cost me,” he said.
The presidential hopeful claimed that in 2019 he found out there were 18 attempts on his life.
