***Igbo Mandate Congress Seeks FG Intervention
The Governorship aspirant of the Allied Peoples
Movement in Ebonyi State and former Personal Assistant to Second Republic
Senate President, Joseph Wayas, has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari
gave the family of the deceased and abandoned former Senate President $150,000dollars
for medical treatment in Canada.
This was contained in an information and
explanation obtained by the Leadership of Igbo Mandate Congress IMC in
Abakaliki on Wednesday. It has been reported in the media recently that the
corpse of the former Senate President was abandoned in London since his demise
two years ago. The family had claimed they had no money to convey the corpse of
the elder statesman to Nigeria for proper burial.
Igbo Mandate Congress and close political associates
and extended family members had sought clarifications from the former Personal
Assistant on the State of Affairs and circumstances surrounding the death of
Joseph Wayas.
In his revelation Rev Gold Paschal said that
Buhari gave the family $150,000 dollars to fly the elder statesman to Canada for
medical treatment but the money was handed to Jowie ie Joseph Junior who
arranged for the travels to UK instead of Canada as approved and agreed, and
since then, the former senate president was kept incommunicado from close associates
till his death.
According to Rev Nwaigwe, “ During the 70th
Birthday of My Oga, Joseph Wayas, He called His Chief of Staff, Paul Evey, and
instructed him to write my appointment letter as the Personal Assistant. Later
he sent me on many errands of confidentiality for him. Recall that Wayas took
me to so many political meetings during the tenure of Goodluck Jonathan, and
equally represented him in certain places.