FINALLY, OBANIKORO AND FAYOSE ARE IN TROUBLE

"New Details Reveal Obanikoro Accounts Received
Funding
For Ekitigate"

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) has
received more evidence linking former junior
Minister for
Defence Musiliu Obanikoro, who now is hiding
abroad, with
the infamous Ekitigate election scandal of June
2014 and the
related plot to rig the Osun State gubernatorial
election,
SaharaReporters has learned.
According to our source, the commission obtained
financial
transaction information and witness testimonies
connecting
Mr. Obanikoro with a group of companies which
received at
least N1.45 billion to rig the two governorship
elections last
year.
The N1.45 billion was allegedly funneled into the
accounts of
five companies, all of which were under the
control of Mr.
Obanikoro. The evidence of these transactions
emerged
from EFCC interrogations of ten suspects
connected with the
$2.1 billion arms scandal involving the Office of
the National
Security Adviser (ONSA), Sambo Dasuki.
It would be recalled that SaharaReporters
exclusively
published an audio recording by whistleblower
Captain Sagir
Koli last February revealing Mr. Obanikoro
presiding over a
meeting on the eve of the Ekiti election that was
called to
discuss how to ensure the victory of the
candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Ayo Fayose. In
addition to both
men at the meeting were the Osun State
governorship
candidate, Iyiola Omisore; the Minister for Police
Affairs,
Jelili Adesiyan; and Brigadier General Aliyu
Momoh of the
Nigerian Army.
Last month, the army announced a five-man
panel to
ascertain any malpractice by its officers during
the
gubernatorial contests. The chairman of the panel,
Major
General Adeniyi Oyebade, stated that his
committee would
tender a report within two weeks to the Chief of
Army Staff,
Tukur Buratai
In a report last week, The Nation newspaper said
it was told
by a source that massive amounts of money were
moved
from the Federal Government to an “ex-Minister”
to rig the
Ekiti and Osun State governor contests.
SaharaReporters has
confirmed that the former minister in reference is
Mr.
Obanikoro.
According to the source, who quoted by the
newspaper, “The
huge funds were paid into the accounts of the ex-
Minister
for elections in the two states,” and “some
military and
security personnel were to benefit from the slush
funds”
were shortchanged.
Mr. Obanikoro is currently thought to be hiding
out in the
United States. Sources speaking with a
SaharaReporters
correspondent disclosed that agents of the
Department of
State Security recently intercepted several calls
between a
panicky Mr. Obanikoro and the former Senate
President,
David Mark, in which the former Minister pleaded
for
assistance from Mr. Mark regarding his
forthcoming legal
problems.
The same sources said that Mr. Obanikoro fears
extradition
if he remains where he is hiding and is therefore
trying to
“eliminate” the prospects of legal proceedings
against him in
Nigeria.
One of the suspects interrogated by the EFCC is
an official of
the ONSA who confirmed that the funds were
transferred to
the five companies at the behest of a former
Accountant-
General.
According to reports and SaharaReporters’
investigations,
the companies controlled by Mr. Obanikoro which
received
the deposits included: Stellavera Dev Company
(N300m),
First Aralac Global Limited (N300m), First Aralac
Global
Limited (N100m), Damaris Mode (N300m),
Stellavera Dev
Company (N200m), and Whese Farms Ltd
(N250m).
The funds were used either to influence the
elections in Ekiti
and Osun States or simply laundered, or were
earmarked
for the 2015 presidential elections.
Efforts by Mr. Obanikoro to quash the EFCC’s
investigation
from the United States have reportedly failed so
far.

Would this saga see an end to the insults Nigeria's President Buhari receives from FAYOSE;who is not scared to talk at anyone not minding your political status and power although Obanikoro has been out of speculations for a long time been..

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