Presidency says Buhari will grant Jonathan audience over arms deal scandal

President Muhammadu Buhari will be willing to meet former President Goodluck Jonathan over the multi-million dollars arms deal, the presidency has revealed. According to the President's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the opportunity is in other to get clarifications on the arms procurement scandal.
Adesina further said that President Buhari believes in decency and civility, hence, a former president should have access to a sitting president irrespective of their political party differences.

“Yes, President Buhari will always grant audience to former President Jonathan, if there is any request for such. A rebuff does not come into the picture at all,” Adesina told Punch Newspaper.

Speaking further, he said, 'A former President should always have access to a sitting one. It would be uncouth and indecent to shut out a former occupant of such lofty office. If some people did it to their predecessors in the past, it is not this President who believes in decency and civility.'

Following revelations from the finding of the committee probing arms deal, the EFCC has ordered 18 military chiefs to appear before it on Monday, January 18, 2015.

It was learnt that the commission had sent invitations to some of the Generals and the companies, whose names featured in the report submitted to the President.

Buhari had on Friday directed the EFCC to carry out further investigation into the alleged misconduct established against some retired and serving officers of the Nigerian Air Force and Nigerian Army.

In its first interim report, the Committee on Audit of Defence Equipment established that the sum N643bn and $2.1bn interventions were received for procurements by DHQ and the services between 2007 and 2015.