After about 36 hours in detention,
authorities of Benin Republic have released former leader of Niger Delta
People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahideen Asari Dokubo.
He was arrested on Tuesday in Cotonou, for an undisclosed offence.
Asari Dokubo, who was freed around 1am, it was gathered,
was immediately flown to Abuja.
However, amid reports that the presidency offered him one
of the planes in the presidential fleet to bring home the former warlord who is
believed to be close to President Goodluck Jonathan, the president yesterday
dismissed the claim.
Presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, in a statement,
described the claim as baseless and untrue.
He said: "There is no truth in the report that a
presidential jet was used to convey Asari Dokubo. Again, what we see here is
the attempt by people to just tell lies and try to package lies as the truth.
"I have read some reports in which they said
‘unconfirmed reports indicate…’ Nobody has been able to say anything
categorically and I think it is very sad that people, in an attempt to just
play politics with anything at all, will start packaging lies hoping that
gullible persons will believe them.
"An aircraft is not a ghost in the
air. The movement of any aircraft is properly documented and people will see
the aircraft if it lands anywhere, particularly the presidential aircraft.
"Nobody can come up with any evidence that any presidential jet was sent to Benin Republic. I can tell you that President Jonathan did not send any presidential jet to Benin Republic.
"Nobody can come up with any evidence that any presidential jet was sent to Benin Republic. I can tell you that President Jonathan did not send any presidential jet to Benin Republic.
"Has Asari Dokubo told anybody that he was brought to
Nigeria in a presidential jet? So what is this all about? Blackmail and
mischief obviously."
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