Fayose is being investigated by the EFCC for allegedly receiving the N1.219 billion through the Office of the National Security Adviser for his campaign in 2014, an amount said to be part of the N4.7 billion allegedly diverted from the ONSA under Colonel Sambo Dasuki
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The woman, according to the source, allegedly sneaked into Nigeria with the sole aim of “evacuating incriminating documents” from her home only to be whisked away by eagle-eyed security men who had been trailing her as she arrived the country from abroad where she was staying with her husband and children
The cash was transferred through an aircraft, HS125-800 5N-BMT, owned by Gyro Air Limited
The money, according to the anti-graft agency, was traced to Fayose’s accounts in Zenith Bank Plc
Aluko, who claimed that Fayose did not have up to N10 million in his personal account before contesting the governorship election in 2014, added that the governor’s primary election was sponsored by the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
The EFCC, which has frozen the bank accounts of the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, and the account of a company, belonging to the two sons of a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, said it had recovered evidence of the alleged illegal transactions from the banks
Obanikoro, in the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed on his behalf by his lawyer, Chief Ogwu Onoja (SAN), is also praying the court to restrain the EFCC whether by its officers, servants, privies, assigns or agents from arresting, detaining, harassing any of the applicants or any of their relatives pending the hearing and determination of the suit
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Obanikoro had on February 10, 2015 filed a suit before the court after the defendants allegedly published an audio recording of Obanikoro with other individuals purportedly plotting to rig the 2014 Ekiti State gubernatorial election
The embattled Secretary of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Temitope Aluko, has alleged that Senator…
Obanikoro had been allegedly involved in the controversial Ekiti State governorship election audio tape, which is now popularly called Ekitigate, and series of petitions have been submitted against him seeking his disqualification
Adeyeye said the party was becoming too irritating in its desperation for power
It could be recalled the Senate had twice deferred Obanikoro’s confirmation due to the insistence of the All Progressives Congress senators from Lagos State not to shift grounds on the issue
Obanikoro also challenged the APC for questioning his recent nomination as minister
Obanikoro’s name was among the seven that news television, African Independent Television, reported on Friday was sent to the Senate for confirmation by Jonathan
There had been controversy even before the commencement of the poll
The PDP Elders’ Council, Lagos State, headed by Chief Olabode George and Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, among others, said Obanikoro was not electable
In the suit initiated on their behalf by their lawyer, Wahab Kunle Shittu, Ogun, Saheed and Odusan are asking the court to halt Obanikoro’s governorship ambition until the following questions among others, were resolved
Maku had on Friday given the hint that all ministers with their eyes on 2015 would quit the cabinet latest by October 20
Shelle spoke against the backdrop of the party’s adoption of President Goodluck Jonathan as its sole candidate for the 2015 presidential poll
The Synagogue Church of All Nations had claimed that an unidentified aircraft had hovered above the building many times before it finally came down