Hamza Al-Mustapha, the Action Alliance’s presidential candidate, claims that despite pressure from some individuals, he has never taken or stolen any of the country’s riches but has instead preserved them.
On Tuesday’s episode of Political Paradigm on Channels Television, Hamza Al-Mustapha made the following claims: “I don’t have money, I have never stolen N10. I challenged two governments; I challenged Abdulsalam Abubakar’s government, and I challenged (Olusegun) Obasanjo’s government. They searched.
“I was ransacked by bigger international investigative agencies (and the) police. My eyes and thumbprint were taken all around the whole world and they saw nothing. But rather than tell the whole world my clean record, they kept it aside.”
Al-Mustapha served as the late General Sani Abacha’s chief security officer while he served as the military head of state from 1993 to 1998.
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He claims that those who accused him unjustly of murder, a coup attempt, drug trafficking, and money laundering did him a “disservice,” yet he has pardoned them.
He said that his opponents sought to kill him using legal and illicit ways because they wanted to inherit Abacha’s wealth after seizing control.
“I faced 14 judges in 15 years and that has been cleared and there is no iota of it,” he stated.
“Why did they want to kill me? It is simply because of what I know. I found myself in a situation where I refused to compromise Nigeria and that refusal has cost me,” the AA presidential candidate.
“I suffered from propaganda for a period of 15 years with torture trying to just give me a bad name, just for me not to survive.”
“In 2019, that was when we discovered that there were 18 attempts to kill me. As of 2013 when I came out, I was aware of 11 attempts,” he noted.
Al-Mustapha reflected on his 15-year journey and claimed that while it caused him psychological trauma, he has since recovered. “In 15 years, a serving military officer has been treated daily in chains around the hands, legs, and neck, like an animal. In total, I spent five years and two months in solitary confinement. In 15 years, my parents were only permitted to see me twice, he recalled.
