UPDATE: General Agwai sacked for refusing to use SURE-P Money for Jonathan

Fresh Details have emerged that General Martin Luther Agwai’s sack has more to do with disagreements about the usage of SURE-P funds to bribe people to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 presidential election against Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.

The connection of his sack to his attendance of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s birthday is not the real saga. 

SURE-P was allegedly set up to help fund President Jonathan’s campaign and the campaign of other PDP party interests. The structure of SURE-P is such that critical positions are held by people who have work secretly for Jonathan...

For instance, state coordinators for President Jonathan’s campaign in 2011 are also the current state coordinators for SURE-P, this is not a mere coincidence but a well-orchestrated attempt to give the Jonathan campaign an unfair advantage at the 2015 Polls.

Some of the coordinators are Alhaji Bode Oyedele, (Lagos); Mr. Joseph Ishekpa (Nasarawa); Alhaji Garba A. Kurfi.(Katsina): Alhaji Aliyu Mamman (Niger); Alhaji Adamu Yaro Gombe (Gombe); Hon Femi Akinyemi (Ekiti); Jarigbe Agbom Jarigbe (Cross River); Chief Abdullahi Ohioma (Kogi); Dare Adeleke (Oyo); Alhaji Al-Kasim Madoka (Kano) and Alhaji Kolo Bukar (Borno).

The Lagos State coordinator Alhajo Bode Oyedele is a known ally of Mr Bode George, a PDP Chieftain. All of these people were placed at SURE-P to help direct resources to President Jonathan’s campaign.

General Martin Agwai as SURE-P chairman got 41% of the funds from the reduction in subsidy. This amounted to N15bn Monthly, FG appointed state coordinators got the rest. 

Latest findings has indicated that Agwai was sacked because of his refusal to commit SURE-P funds to the president’s re-election ambition. You will recall that in the current budget, the money meant for the Ministry of Works has now been redirected to SURE-P.