Of course, a man who brought into fruition such media conglomerate as AIT, Ray Power Radio and others, could never be said to be dowdy.
But his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) yesterday and what has been coming out of his mouth portrayed him in a different light.
The first surprise was his open admittance before the whole world that he actually collected the sum of N2.1 Billion from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki for publicity in various national and international media for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) campaigns. This is the most crude form of appearing in public under the circumstance.
Dokpesi, by this confession, has raised a lot of questions and opened a can of putrid worms.
Why would Dasuki disburse such fund to him when he (Dasuki) was not a member of the PDP campaign organization? Which of course, confirmed the allegation by the mainstream PDP shortly after the elections that the fund for the campaign was not chanelled through it.
Why was it that it was Dokpesi that had the privilege of being given such huge sum of money for publicity when there were Chief Olisa Metuh, who was and still is the PDP chief megaphone; Femi Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesman for the Presidential campaign council and other sundry PDP officers all over the place? Was it a case of monkey-de-work-and-baboon-de-chop?
When did NSA office became a centre for the financial disbursement for any national programme, much less the party campaign programmes? What kind of wickedness could Nigerians perpetrate against the poor Nigerians by simply sharing the money meant to be used tp purchase arms and ammunition for the soldiers to adequately save them from the antics of Boko Haram?
It is unfortunate that Dokpesi accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being behind his travails, saying that he is being detained “for stupid reason.”
Which is stupid: the person who cornered whooping 2.1 Billion meant to purchase arms for our soldiers fighting Boko Haram, or his own admittance to the fact for which he is being charged?
As a matter of fact, by admitting that he got such huge amount of money from Dasuki, who is already in the EFCC custody, Dokpesi has technically knocked Dasuki out. It is now clear, through the garrulous Dokpesi that Dasuki actually diverted over Two Billion Dollars meant to purchase arms, and shared it amongst those who were loyal to PDP in general and former President Jonathan in particular.
Dokpesi has been acting and talking too much since his arrest so much that, he has only been portraying his true colour: of greediness, self-centredness, arrogance and, above all emptiness.
He was kind to remind us, in one of his loud noises in his AIT, that Nigeria belongs to all of us. Of course, no one would deny that fact. It is the fact that Nigeria belongs to all of us that he is being asked to account for the N2.1 Billion that is meant for all Nigerians, and which he alone cornered. [myad]
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