Dasukigate $5.37m Confession: I Smell Rat, Obanikoro Compromised, Conniving With FG To Nail Me - Fayose

Premium Times - The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the voluntary return of ex-minister Musiliu Obanikoro to Nigeria as “dramatic and compromised,” following the latter’s alleged confessions to the anti-graft agency, EFCC.

Mr. Fayose said he will not be distracted by Mr. Obanikoro’s reported confessions that he transferred N2.3billion to the Ekiti leader from the Office of the National Security Adviser to fund his 2014 governorship election.

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The governor, in a statement on Wednesday signed by his Special Adviser on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said the report was a plot by the Federal Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to implicate him “at all cost.”

Mr. Obanikoro, who turned himself in to the EFCC on Monday, has been in EFCC custody since then facing interrogation on allegations of corruption and receipt of funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser without contract awards.

The former minister of state for defense arrived Nigeria on Monday after leaving the country in 2015 amid the corruption allegations. He was alleged to have facilitated the disbursement of the funds to Mr. Fayose in the build up to the 2014 election in Ekiti through Biodun Agbele, an associate of the governor.

A report by Punch Newspaper on Wednesday said Mr. Obanikoro had owned up to the EFCC on the transfers.

A source close to the former minister also confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Obanikoro was “cooperating” with the anti-graft commission and had written at least two statements to that effect.

But Mr. Fayose dismissed the report, saying it was the commission’s usual media trial.

“This project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and its collaborators can keep running from pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti and its people,” he said.

“We have gone past this stage of media trial, EFCC should rather keep its gun powder dry, when we get to the bridge, we will cross it. They said more than this in the 2006 poultry scam blackmail, despite that, I am the governor today.”

While noting that his reaction to the report was only “to fulfill all righteousness,” the governor said “those who arranged the dramatic and compromised return of Senator Obanikoro to Nigeria obviously did so in continuation of their project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost.”

He however, said he was not bothered because his election was legitimately funded.

“As far as I am concerned, I am busy here in Ekiti attending to the welfare and well-being of my people. I won’t be distracted,” the governor said.

He said the EFCC should also beam its searchlights on the funding of APC elections.

“Since we are now in the era in which financial assistance from Nigerians to fund elections is being criminalised, the international community, especially those funding EFCC must insist that the commission probes the funding of APC elections before further funds are released to the commission,” he said.

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2019: PDP, APC Jostle For Ribadu

A former renown anticorruption czar, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu may have turned to a new beautiful bride as the two leading Nigerian political party jostle to have him in their fold ahead of 2019 general election, report by Premium Times suggests

The All Progressives Congress (APC) of Adamawa State has joined the race of groups and individuals calling on a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, to return to the party. This is even as  the former presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria is under pressure from his present party, the PDP, to serve as national chairman to ” reorganise the PDP as it readies itself to reclaim power in 2019, Premium Times revealed

Mr. Ribadu is one of the founding leaders of the party, but left for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, shortly before the 2015 general elections.

Mr. Ribadu was the PDP candidate for governor in Adamawa State in 2015. He left the APC after the impeachment of former Governor Murtala Nyako by the State House of Assembly in 2014.

Sources close to the anti-corruption Czar said he was ” deeply disappointed by the inability of the APC leadership to save Mr Nyako from impeachment.”

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In a letter to Mr. Ribadu, signed by the acting secretary of the APC in Adamawa State, Saidu Naira, the ruling party said it was time for Mr. Ribadu to return to his “home party”.

The letter, dated, June, 22, 2016, reads in part:

“Given your track records and progressives nature, we strongly belief APC is where you belong to.

“We are also mindful of the efforts and contributions you made during the merger without which the merger would have been difficult.

“To this end we reaffirm our request for you to come home to APC and assist and contribute to the success of the APC government both at state and national level”.

Efforts to reach Mr. Ribadu or his spokesperson, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, were unsuccessful.

How Fayose's Ally Stole N59.6m MDG Fund As EFCC Makes Costly Mistake By ExposingThe Gov.'s BVN Number

The detectives probing financial recklessness of the lousy Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has made an expensive mistake by making public, the Bank verification Number of the governor, BVN, which is supposed to be personal and secret over discovery on how N1.299billion was laundered for the governor.

Fayose's BVN Number which was given as 22338867502 was quoted in revealing illicit transactions between him and Mr. Abiodun Agbele in the N1.299billion slush fun from Col. Sambo Dasuki to facilitate Ekiti guber election in 20114

A fresh report by The Nation Newspaper suggests that detectives have uncovered alleged diversion of over N59.6million meant for projects under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Ekiti State by Mr. Abiodun Agbele, an associate of Governor Ayodele Fayose.

Agbele, who is in detention, is believed to have been a front to launder N1.299billion for Fayose through his company, De-Privateer.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) believes the cash was part of the  N4.745billion paid ex-Minister Musiliu Obanikoro’s company, Sylva Mcnamara, by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) for the 2014 Ekiti governorship poll.

EFCC operatives were probing more clues on slush funds and payment of kickback by contractors  before uncovering alleged diversion of MDGs’ funds.

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According to EFCC investigators, the MDGs’ funds were transferred from a First Bank (MDGs-CGS Local Govt)  to BYKD Consult Limited, which is purportedly owned by Agbele.

The funds were transferred in four tranches as follows: February 18, 2015(N18, 159, 050; N15, 319,850; N11, 218, 500; and March 30, 2015—N15, 704, 325.

Upon receipt of the funds through his account 0059177132 in Diamond Bank, Bodija, Agbele allegedly diverted the cash to pay for choice vehicles from Affordable Motors, a leading car sales company.

A source said: “We traced the diversion of the funds. On February 19, 2015, about N40million was transferred to  the account of Affordable Motors.

“Also, on February 20, 2015, N15million was remitted to the same auto firm. We have the records.

“You can see how funds meant for projects designed for those at the grassroots were used to buy vehicles from an auto mart. This is why we have renewed the detention warrant on Agbele.

“We have asked Agbele to provide evidence of the contracts he did to have received funds from MDGs account in the state.

“We are going to invite all those connected with the disbursement of the fund including the coordinator of MDGs and civil servants in charge of the projects.

“We are conducting a comprehensive investigation on how funds were allocated to MDGs and local governmet areas and the disbursement process.”

Responding to a question, the source added: “We are suspecting that the governor might have used Agbele to launder MDGs’ funds. As soon as investigation is completed, we will make our findings public.

“Our findings so far have revealed the same pattern of how  the N1.299billion handed over to Agbele by Obanikoro was transferred to Fayose’s accounts.”

The N1, 219, 490,000 was not deposited in any account but it was kept in a vault in the bank. It took the bank officials about 10 days to count. The bankers refused to make entry until it was counted,

“Shortly after confirming the figure, Abiodun was used to coordinate the disbursement of the funds. On June 26, 2014, Agbele paid N137million into Ayodele Fayose’s account 10003126654 with Zenith Bank through Teller-0556814. Fayose’s BVN on the teller is 22338867502. On August 22, 2014, he paid N50million into the same account. By the records from the bank, Abiodun paid another N118, 760,000 into Fayose’s account on 27/8/14,” a document on the investigation stated.

“Based on the transfers, Fayose moved N300million to a Fixed Deposit Account No 9013074033 with Zenith Bank at 15, Olusola Abiona Street, Olorunda Estate, Alapere Ketu. He has the same BVN-22338867502.

“After that, Abiodun deposited another N100million from the N1, 219, 490,000 into Spotless Hotel Account run by Fayose and his wife, Helen Olayemi Fayose with Account No. 1010170969, Fayose’s BVN is 223338867502 and his wife’s BVN in the account is 22298990256.

“The governor and his wife are the two directors and signatories of Spotless Hotel account.”

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EFCC Exposes New Tactics By Ex-Governors Under Probe To Cover Up; You'll Be Shocked At Their Dirty Plot

 In a desperate move to cover up for their dirty deal tract, the majority of the former governors who are either currently undergoing investigations or had been arraigned by the anti-graft agency for alleged corruption have been discovered to be plotting to infiltrate the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by influencing the postings of some security operatives, who once worked with them during their tenure as governors, a fresh report by Punch Newspaper suggests

The former governors, it was gathered accordung to Punch Newspaper that, having failed to get the commission to either drop the cases against them or to frustrate the cases in courts, had come up with another strategy to make sure that they got hold of key aspects of the commission.

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It was learnt that the ex-states’ chief executive officers had started lobbying the police authorities and the Police Service Commission to post their former police aides to the EFCC as investigators.

The Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, was said to have been surprised to discover that a former Aide-De-Camp to an ex-governor from a North-Central, who is undergoing trial for alleged corruption, was working at a sensitive position in the commission.

The aide, a Superintendent of Police (name withheld), was posted to the commission and was made an investigator.

When Magu was said to have learnt of the officer’s past, and since his immediate boss was undergoing trial for alleged corruption, the chairman was said to have ordered that the affected officer be transferred to the Police for reassignment.

Though the operative was not queried for any misconduct, the commission was said to have been worried that the police officer could be used by his immediate boss to truncate the case against him.

A very reliable officer at the commission said, “The commission was surprised to know that such officer, who was just leaving such a position, would find his way to such a sensitive post.

“There’s no way your former boss, whom you have probably been loyal and still loyal to, could be undergoing trial for corruption and you will help in nailing him.

“That’s why we have to send the officer packing and we have no regret in doing that.”

Because of the discovery, it was gathered that the commission was planning an overhaul of its investigators by carrying out discreet investigations about their past.

“We are investigating them in order to make sure that our officers and investigators are above board and have nothing to do with those being prosecuted or investigated for now,” a source at the commission said.

One of our correspondents gathered on Monday that the anti-graft agency was working on the theory that since there were many former governors still being tried by the EFCC, many of the accused persons might have influenced the postings of their loyalists, especially security operatives, to the commission.

It was learnt that the agency, after detecting the SP planted by a former governor of one of the states in the North-Central, had begun discrete investigations into its operatives, with a view to uncovering some who might have been used to infiltrate the agency by suspected looters.

Chief Olu Falae Arrested, Begged EFCC, Admitted He 'Stole' N40m From Jonathan's Largess

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the EFCC has arrested and grilled former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, on his alleged role in the $15bn arms scam, Punch Newspaper published on Sunday

Falae was grilled by investigators at the commission’s office on Thursday.

According to our source, Falae, who was quizzed on Thursday by the anti-graft agency, had in February admitted to collecting N100m from a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, during the build-up to the 2015 presidential election.

The money was reportedly given to Falae to get his party, the SDP, to endorse the then President, Goodluck Jonathan, and campaign for him.

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However, the N100m was said to have emanated from the imprest account of the ONSA domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The money, which Falae got was said to be part of the N3.145bn transferred from the account of the ONSA to the bank account of Joint Trust Dimensions Limited, a company allegedly owned by the Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman.

On Anenih’s instruction, Usman was said to have transferred N100m into a UBA account titled Marecco Nigeria Limited with number 1000627022, which allegedly belongs to Falae.

Others who allegedly received part of the fund were a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode (N840m) and two former ministers, Achike Udenwa and Viola Onwuliri, who jointly received N350m in two tranches.

An investigator at the anti-graft agency told our correspondent that Falae was grilled for several hours and then allowed to go home on the condition that he would return in the next two weeks.

The source said Falae admitted to receiving the fund but maintained that he did not know that the money emanated from the ONSA.

However, investigators were said to have rattled the 78-year-old elder statesman with fresh facts.

A detective said, “Chief Falae came to our office based on an invitation. He told us the story of how he received N100m based on the instruction of Anenih. However, our investigations revealed that Falae only transferred N60m to his party, SDP.

“The remaining N40m was personally withdrawn by him, which means it was not used for campaign. When he was confronted, he started appealing to us that he did not want to be detained or taken to court, so we told him to go and bring the N40m first.

“He said we should give him some time, so we have given him two weeks to go and bring the money and then report back to us.”

Asked if the EFCC was willing to charge Falae having frozen his account, the detective said, “Chief Falae, is a former Permanent Secretary and Minister of Finance. There is no way he would not have known that the deal was shady.

“If he really wanted to use the money for campaign, why didn’t he ask that the N100m be paid into the account of the SDP? Also, why didn’t he question the source of the fund when it did not emanate from the account of the PDP? Why did he keep N40m to himself?

“We are not victimising any political party or investigating the source of campaign funds. All we are doing is tracing the billions of dollars stolen from the ONSA account. Once you return the money, you will have no problem.”

Falae, while admitting in February that he collected N100m, had said, “It is true that N100m was given to my party to endorse and work for (former President Goodluck Jonathan’s candidature in the 2015 election. We used the money for that purpose and we effectively campaigned for the PDP since we did not have presidential candidate in the election. The money was not for me.

“With all the money PDP has and having spent 16 years in power, how would I have known that the money was from the arms deal? No reference was made to the arms deal. So, they should not bring me into the arms issue.”

Falae, while speaking to one of our correspondents on Saturday confirmed that he was invited by the EFCC. The elder statesman said he told the anti-graft agency that he didn’t collect any money from Dasuki.

He said, “It is true that I was invited by the EFCC and during the interrogation I told them that I didn’t collect money from Dasuki; that the money given to my party through Chief Tony Anenih was not given to me personally but to my party, the SDP.

“I also told them that the money was mainly used for the election. I told them it was an inter-party arrangement between our party and the PDP and the money was spent on the election. I didn’t know where the PDP got their money from, it was not my business but the money given to us had been spent on the election.

“I explained to them exactly what I said in my interview in the newspapers.”

He, however, declined comment on whether or not he was asked to come back to the EFCC for further interrogation.

BREAKING: EFCC Names GEJ Female Minister Whose Housemaid Account Contains Stolen N2.5b

Agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have discovered the sum of N2.5 billion in a bank account opened in the name of a housemaid to former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, who is now a senator representing Anambra State in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Two senior EFCC sources told our correspondent that the bank account and its huge deposits had been opened and operated without the knowledge of the former minister’s housemaid. “Senator Oduah apparently opened the account with her housemaid’s name, image, and details without the housemaid knowing about it,” said one EFCC agent familiar with the scandal. 

Another EFCC source told SaharaReporters that Ms. Oduah had been going around to some top officials of the Muhammadu Buhari administration seeking their help to scuttle her impending trial. Last week, she asked for a meeting with EFCC chairman Ibrahim Magu, claiming she wanted to meet in her official capacity as a senator. 

The two EFCC sources who briefed our correspondent on the “housemaid” account disclosed that Ms. Oduah was the sole signatory to the account, adding that they were still connecting the dots to uncover how the ex-Aviation Minister managed to pull off such a money laundering operation. 

“As of last week, the account was still active and contained over N2.5 billion,” said one EFCC source. He added that he could not ascertain whether the EFCC chairman, who is currently traveling in Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj, had ordered the freezing of the account.

One of our EFCC sources revealed that the discovery of the “maid” account meant that the former minister must have stolen as much as N5.6 billion so far from the Aviation Ministry’s funds during her ministerial term.

SaharaReporters had revealed in earlier reports that EFCC investigators had so far determined that Ms. Oduah split N3.6 billion that she acquired illegally among eight companies. 

In August 2015, Ms. Oduah filed an application at a Federal High Court to stop the EFCC from investigating allegations that she bought two ostensibly bulletproof BMW cars at $1.6 million, or $800,000 apiece. A controversial judge, Justice Mohammed Yunusa, initially granted the order sought by Senator Oduah. However, in February 2016, after Justice Yunusa was transferred out of Lagos, another federal high court judge vacated the order, permitting the EFCC to carry on with its investigation. 

SaharaReporters had broken the report about the BMW scam during Ms. Oduah’s ministerial tenure. Several BMW dealers in Europe and North America told our reporters that what the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) paid for the two BMW cars far exceeded the price ranges for such bulletproof automobiles. 

Ms. Oduah is a close ally of embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki, who is the defendant in two criminal trials in Abuja pertaining to forgery and false declaration of assets.

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...Even Housemaid To GEJ's Powerful Female Minister Has N2.5b In Her Account - EFCC Reveals

More shocking revelations on how former President Goodluck Jonathan's administration was enmeshed in corruption and laundering of public funds have begun to unfold as a bank account with over N2.5billion opened in the name of a former female minister’s housemaid has been discovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The account was opened by the former influential minister in the name of the housemaid as part of the effort to cover her track, the EFCC investigation has revealed, The Nation Newspaper report.

Despite the account opened in the name of the housemaid, a preliminary investigation has shown that the former minister is the sole signatory to the account, report according to the Nation Newspaper suggests

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A highly placed EFCC source said yesterday that she would be brought to justice.

“Our findings indicated that the ex-female minister opened an account in the name of her housemaid and with her photograph. But the signature in the account is that of the ex-minister,” the source said.

“At the time we made the discovery, over N2.5billion was in the account. But the volume of transactions in the account has been huge.

“We are suspecting that the ex-minister did not put the housemaid in the picture of what she wanted to do with her passport photograph.

“We have established that the ex-minister has been drawing funds from the said account. We have retrieved records of all transactions by the ex-Minister. We will soon bring her to justice no matter how long it takes to follow due process.”

Fayose GOOFED, Aisha in Jefferson’s Bribery Scandal Not Buhari’s Wife – Lamorde, Ex-EFCC Boss

The embattled Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose may have goofed as a former ant-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission boss, Ibrahim Lamorde has said the Aisha Buhari mention in the bribery scandal involving a United States of America Congressman, Williams Jefferson, is not President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife.

The issue came to the fore again on Monday after the EFCC froze the private account of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, over investigation being conducted into the funding of the 2014 governorship campaign in Ekiti State.

Fayose had after leaving the bank accused the EFCC and President Buhari of witch hunting.

He said Buhari himself was not a saint and alluded to the Jefferson scandal.

He equally accused Buhari, in a statement issued later, of having an estate in Abuja.

The Aisha Buhari in the Jefferson scandal was said to have aided the transfer of $170,000 to Jefferson.

But Lamorde, in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, said as one of those involved in the case when he was in the EFCC, he could authoritatively confirm that the Aisha was not Buhari’s wife.

He told PREMIUM TIMES: “I can tell you authoritatively that the Aisha Buhari named in that case is not President Buhari’s wife.

“It is another Aisha Buhari entirely.

“I was the Director of Operations at the EFCC at the time so I know about the case very well.

“I can tell you that it is not her (President Buhari’s wife).

“That much we established.”

The Aisha Buhari was mentioned on Page 22 of the court document on the website of the United States Department of Justice on the issue.