I’m not working for Jonathan, says Al-Mustapha

By Samuel Aruwan
Kaduna

Former chief security officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, could not control his emotions yesterday when he said there “is hopelessness in northern Nigeria and there is need for urgent intervention to save the region.”
He also denied that he was working for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, adding that instead he was working assiduously for peace and stability of the country.

Al-Mustapha stressed that he was neither a member nor sympathiser of any political party and had not attend any political rally for anyone except devoting his time and energy to peace.
Speaking in Kaduna shortly  after his case with a Kaduna-based Islamic cleric was postponed, he said: “Nigerians must live in peace, Nigerians must be protected. Nigerians must have all opportunities it takes for a people to survive, stand and grow as Nigerians. Let there be unity, peace and progress. That is what I stand for.”

Continuing, he said: “Certainly, I am not working for Jonathan. If I were to be, I would have joined any of the political parties, I am not a card carrying member of political parties. I have not made any political declarations anywhere. I have not gone to any campaign. Media is watching me crisscrossing the country and working for peace.

“Look at this Northern Nigeria first, where the disaffection is being spread (sic), there is poverty all over, and those who believe they have resources of the people at hand and to be supportive are the ones taking money and pushing people to another direction. A diversionary, that is not what we want, we want peace in Nigeria and no more.”