NAIJ.com>>> Although former president, Goodluck Jonathan,
has dismissed a report which suggested that he received the sum of $200 million
as bribe from the Malabu oil deal, Nigerians are reacting furiously to the
allegation.
The report which was published by an American news website,
Buzzfeed, claimed Jonathan probably received as much as $200 million to approve
the controversial $1.3 billion sale of OPL 245 oil field. Reacting to the
accusation, the former president in a statement on Tuesday, April 11, by
Ikechukwu Eze, his media adviser, described the report as fake news.
The mind-boggling corruption in the Malabu oil
deal has been a source of many investigations The statement said: “The
allegations that former President Goodluck Jonathan received $200 million as
proceeds from the Malabu Oil deal which were published on a gossip news site,
Buzzfeed, and republished by a few other newspapers, is false in its entirety,
and is one more in the series of fake news sponsored by those threatened by Dr.
Jonathan’s continuously rising profile in the international community.
Read more: https://www.naij.com/1099066-goodluck-jonathan-abacha-nigerians-react-200-million-bribery-allegations.html
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