The spokesman of the commission, Rasheedat Okoduwa, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday
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The money was said to be part of the N23 billion allegedly disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, through the then Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman
The Lokoja training programme, which will be named after the former governor, is the third of the six that the former tennis prodigy promised to set up before the end of 2018
Bello was said to have registered in Abuja and also in Kogi State
The court in a unanimous judgement dismissed the appeal filed by Hon. James Faleke, the running mate to late Abubakar Audu, the initial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, and a former Governor of the State, Captain Idris Wada, who was also the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the election
In a reaction to the judgment of the Court of Appeal that dismissed the cases instituted against his emergence as the governor of the state by Wada and Faleke, Bello made the plea on Thursday in Lokoja in an interview with newsmen
The Tribunal had earlier in the week dismissed similar petitions against Bello
Bello, who made the accusation on Sunday in a statewide broadcast to commemorate Democracy Day, said the immediate past administration used fictitious beneficiaries to siphon the money
However, Justice Halima Muhammad, the tribunal Chairman, adjourned the petition when she saw that the figure in the document schedule was not tallying with the document before the tribunal
The Transport Officer of the Kogi State Government, Laraba Okedi, in a statement on Wednesday in Lokoja said the order also affected other categories of political appointees, including members of boards and agencies