The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission is set to invite the immediate past Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu; and a former Minister of State
for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, over the car gifts they
allegedly received from oil baron, Jide Omokore.
Already, the EFCC has detained the
Deputy Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, since Tuesday for
allegedly receiving 23 exotic cars (worth N302m) from Omokore. However, a source within the PDP told
our correspondent that the vehicles distributed by Omokore to several
party leaders were far more than 23 as the vehicles were meant to be
distributed across the country. Omokore, who is an ally of former
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been in
detention for over a week. His firm was one of the companies that
allegedly received multi-billion dollar public assets without due
process by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2011.
His company, Atlantic Energy Limited, is accused of lifting crude oil, but only remitting a fraction of its worth to the government. According to detectives at the EFCC, the
funds used for the purchase of the vehicles were sourced from crude oil
receipts, which Omokore failed to remit. The vehicles were said to have been given to key PDP chiefs who played key roles in mobilisation in their respective states. The commission, it was learnt, has been unable to arrest Mu’azu as he has been out of the country for some months.
Source: http://www.punchng.com/efcc-to-invite-muazu-obanikoro-over-omokores-car-gifts/
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