THE GUY SPONSORING JONATHAN

Mr. Eze is a well-known Nigerian businessman, a
close friend of the president, and a major financier
of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as
Sahara Reports informs.
Some military sources also inform the contract
has saddled the Nigerian military with helicopters
that have limited or no combat utility.
The documents given below reveal that Mr. Eze,
the chief executive of Triax, received the gigantic
sum of $466.5 million in order to militarize six
Puma helicopters with the aid of an Israeli
company named Elbit Systems. This meant that
each of such helicopters costs around $78
million.
“For the price of each helicopter provided by
Engineer Arthur Eze, the Air Force could have
acquired seven top grade military helicopters,”
said one of Sahara Reporters sources.
One of the same edition’s sources have even
accused President Jonathan and Mr. Eze of using
the refusal of the US to sell Cobra attack
helicopters to Nigeria as an reason to engage in a
large-scale squandering of funds involving the
Federal Government and Mr. Eze’s company, the
Triax Company Nigeria Limited.
“In the US, a brand new AH Cobra attack
helicopter costs around $12 million each,” said a
source at the NAF. It is also added: “That means
that, with $400 million, Nigeria could have
purchased up to 40 brand new helicopters.”
According to the source, the Cobra attack
helicopter is one of the best US-made helicopters.
“It is highly effective in the battlefield. It would
have given us big battlefield advantage over Boko
Haram,” he said.
In an additional proposal, Mr. Eze’s company
sought to purchase 4,000 57mm S5 rockets, 400
80mm S8 rockets, 500 general-purpose bombs,
and 20,000 units of unguided rockets.
To be mentioned, Mr. Eze is one of the biggest
personal financiers of Mr. Jonathan’s re-election.
The businessman, who also controls huge
interests in oil fields both in Nigeria and other
West African countries, has been investing
millions of dollars into Mr. Jonathan’s campaign,
said an insider PDP source
During the brutal dictatorship led by the late
General Sani Abacha, Mr. Eze became one of the
confidantes of the general and his wife. He
received a huge windfall when Mr. Abacha handed
him the $120 million contract for rural electricity
and water projects in the southeastern states.
Even though the contract sum was borrowed from
the African Development Bank, Mr. Eze pocketed
the money without doing any of the projects, a
scandal that led to the firing of the bank’s chief
executive.