At least Baba is admitting he collected money, unlike some people who enjoy to be stubborn.
A former Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief
Tony Anenih, has given an insight into the controversial N260 million he
received from the embattled former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel
Sambo Dasuko (retd), during the Jonathan administration.
Sunday Vanguard learnt, at the weekend, that Anenih shed light on the
money in a letter to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The money is the subject of a probe by the EFCC as part of the investigation
into the $2.1 billion arms money Dasuki allegedly disbursed for purposes other
than security.
A source at that anti-graft agency quoted the former BoT Chairman of the
PDP as saying, in the letter, that the
N260 million was a refund of the N400 million he disbursed, on the instruction
of Jonathan to elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai; the National Chairman of
the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae; and the leader of the
Accord Party, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, among others, for ‘special political
assignments’ ahead of the 2015 polls.
The source added that Anenih claimed that he merely, on request, gave
the former President his bank account details into which the refund should be
made, and that he was not in the position to ask Jonathan how he was going to
source money for the refund or through which office it would be made.
Falae and Ladoja have confirmed receiving N100 million each from the PDP leader while Yakassai took N63
million.
According to the EFCC source, Anenih explained that the N263 million he
gave to the three men was N3 million in
excess of the N260 million paid him, while he had outstanding balance of N180
million to collect from the former President.
“The PDP leader made it clear in the letter to the EFCC that he was not
a beneficiary of the money and that he was only acting on the instruction of
Jonathan to disburse it”, the source
stated.
Other disbursements Anenih made on Jonathan’s instruction to bring the
total to N400 million, according to the letter, include N25 million to a former
deputy governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Muktari Shagari, and N35 million to a
delegation of local government leaders from Katsina State.
Besides, Anenih was said to have indicated in the letter that, on the
instruction of the former President, the BoT of the PDP then, under his chair,
embarked on a nationwide reconciliation tour and that the money he spent on
hiring private jet during the tour, among other responses, was also not
refunded to him.
The PDP leader pointed out that, in spite of his commitment to
stabilising the party and its leadership and to ensure post-election peace, he
was pressurized to resign as BoT chair on
trumped-up charges of anti-party
activities and alleged overbearing influence.
-vanguard
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