A socio-cultural group in Bayelsa State, Izon Ibe Youth Assembly, on
Sunday alleged that a former Special Assistant to ex-President
Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamowei Dudafa, has been fraternizing with the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari by releasing sensitive
documents to the government.
The organisation specially said the ex-Presidential Aide was
responsible for the document containing details of the recent probe of
$6.9 million mobile stage for public events.
Spokesman of IYA, Jones Opugu, in a statement in Yenagoa said Dudafa
was “a traitor and a disgrace to the Ijaw nation.”
Acct him, the reason was to be in the good book of the new
administration and possibly avoid invitation by the Department of
State Services (DSS) to account for his actions while in government.
The group said the allegations were “true and on good authority”
adding that it has resolved to expose the former presidential aide for
him to account for what it described as “the huge money in his
possession”.
The statement read in parts: “It is regrettable that in this season of
betrayal of our own son and former President Goodluck Jonathan, a very
close aide like Waripamowei Dudafa could be an associated traitor. We
have it on good authority and have subsequently found out to be true
that Dudafa was behind the latest probe where his former boss and
former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, were alleged to
have purchased three pieces of 40 feet mobile stages for mass public
speaking at $6.9 million.
“We are aware of how he is fraternizing with the Buhari administration
to release sensitive documents which will be used to further probe the
former president and the reason he is doing so is to escape the
invitation of the DSS to account for his own actions in government.
“As now a public knowledge, he is afraid of all the atrocities he
committed as a privileged aide by fraudulently collecting huge sums of
money from unsuspecting visitors to the Presidential Villa who were
desperate to see the former president but failed to deliver. Now he is
running from pillar to post, trying to play game with the new
government and resorted to releasing secret documents currently being
used to probe his former boss and we are also aware that more of such
documents are being made available to nail our own son and his former
boss.
“We see Dudafa’s action as treacherous and a monumental disgrace to
the Ijaw nation. In a bid to save his face, he is working closely with
the current occupants at the Villa to betray his former boss which is
regrettable. In any case, we have resolved to expose this man without
conscience for who he truly is, as we believe it is the right thing to
do for him to also be made to account for all the billions in his
possession.
“Our query for Dudafa is: How did he come about the 50 million dollars
in his possession? Why did he flee from the country? Why is he
fighting his former boss and the wife? Is it because he was told to
return their money in his possession and he refused? But no matter how
far he would probably go in his actions as a traitor, nemesis will
catch up with him.