Deshalb sind eigentlich alle froh, dass Nigeria - zumindest vorerst - weg ist. Und daher eignet sich dieser Umstand auch nicht zum bashen der Aktie. Vielleicht kannst du aus dieser "Bettwärmer-Story" auch noch eine Räuberpistole konstruieren?
Obasanjo's $1billion Dollars In London Bank?, Quelle: amanaonline
As the messy fight between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Abaubakar Atiku get messier, more revelationa of financial impropriety are beginning to surface. The Times of Nigeria can reveal exclusively that President Olusegun Obasanjo has over the years wired close to $1billion dollars to foreign accounts through his girlfriend, Lamide Adegbenro and other associates. The Times of Nigeria is currently in possession of a “Payment Credit Advice” document from a British bank, “NatWest Bank PLC” advising one Ms. Lamide Adegbenro of 15 Teresa close Nottinghill, Londo W2 4DA that the sum of $110,000 United States dollars has been wired into her account from Habib Bank Nigeria Limited on 474 Langtang Close, area 3, Garki Abuja.
The total amount of USD 109,987.47 was paid into Ms Lamide Adegbenro’s account number 140-00-08664641 after subtracting the commission fee from the original amount. The payment was authorized by Bodunde Adeyanju, the personal assistant to President Obasanjo who has been in the center of allegations and counter allegations between the President and his Vice over the operation of the MOFAS account.
The transfer, with reference number “031030CHBSES33CXXX164641” was dated October 31st 2004. A commission of $12.53 cents was paid for the transfer.
Our source, who is based in the United Kingdom, has promised to reveal documents detailing deposits of about $1B dollars deposited in United Kingdom by the President through his proxies.
“Over the next few days therefore, I will be releasing a number of documents for Nigerians to read and see the degree of decadence of Mr. President. It is the evidence that will demand a verdict.”
“Based on what is available, I have a rough calculation of about $1billion dollars that have been laundered? There is also Obasanjo’s purported resignation letter which was secured in London just in case the Third term issue goes haywire.”
“We will also talk about Alam, Nigeria and the British intelligence? Who is telling the truth?”
“What about Dariye? Did he not use his diplomatic passport to enter Nigeria?”
“I realise that in making these information available, I will be a marked man. That is the sacrifice that has to be paid anyway. Some people paid similar prices before us, and they have laid an example for us to follow in their footsteps. May God grant us the heart and strength as well as long life to see Nigeria become great again?”
“The question we have to ask ourselves, that is if we truly love Nigeria, is: Was Obasanjo using his PA and his girlfriend as well to launder money to London? The source concluded.
Claims by President Olusegun Obasanjo that he did not personally benefit from the PTDF deposit in Trans International Bank (TIB) as well as from campaign funds in the account of MOFAS shipping line, are not consistent with facts on ground.
Mrs. Oyo in her statement, said yesterday that, and we quote: "Concerning Mr. Bodunde Adeyanju, the Special Assistant to the President who was mentioned as a beneficiary of PTDF fund, Otunba Fasawe or any campaign fund on behalf of the President, we repeat that nothing can be further from the truth." This has necessitated the need for our campaign office to supply the missing facts to the Nigerian public.
The documents available to us, some of which we are attaching to this statement, show that the President, his family, businesses, native community and the PDP of which he has proclaimed himself a life leader, have benefited tremendously from money deposited in the accounts he is now dissociating himself from. The President's Personal Assistant, Mr. Bodunde Adeyanju made over 100 sorties to TIB Abuja (located at Tofa House in the Central Business District) between 1999 and 2004.
The truth of the matter, is that there is a "big linkage" between Chief Obasanjo and Otunba Fasawe contrary to the claims that the President has made. There are cheques worth over N100 millon issued to IBAD Nigeria Limited, a construction company solely owned by Obasanjo from Fasawe's MOFAS TIB accounts. There are also payments Fasawe directly made to the Obasanjo Africa Leadership Forum and to Obasanjo Campaign Organisation. (Please see attached documents).
Documentary evidence also reveals that the President even bought a brand new Peugeot 607 for woman friend, Ms. Lamide Adegbenro, from the MOFAS account. The President also bought a Prado Jeep for Mrs Ajoke Mohammed, wife of the late Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed.
The vehicles were supplied by R.T. Briscoe in December 2001. The company also supplied two Coaster buses for Obasanjo's Bells Comprehensive High School in Ota at about the same time. (see attached documents).
It is false and malicious to allege that funds from the PTDF deposit were used to fund the private projects of the Vice President. Otunba Oyewole Fasawe, a long time friend of Atiku donated only a building at ABTI Academy in Yola.
The N61m cheque in the name of Atiku Abubakar is a forgery. It was issued in someone else's name which the President's camp erased and then superimposed Atiku's name and re-photocopied. That cheque does not exist either in the bank or EFCC record. When EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu met the Vice President in the course of their investigation, he never showed these particular cheques. Even the EFCC Report that dripped of blood and hatred did not make any such claim. Where did the draft come from?
Instead of Atiku, it is the President who has personally benefited from both the PTDF accounts and campaign money sourced from a ministry under the direct supervision of Mr. President.
The purchase of two Coaster buses valued at N11million for Obasanjo's Bells Comprehensive School, Ota is proof that the President has personally benefited from Fasawe's MOFAS accounts at TIB and from the Marine Float account at Habib Bank. The TIB Abuja branch cheque was issued on December 20, 2001. An additional N1.95 million was also issued to R.T Briscoe on TIB Apapa branch on 7th December 2001.
Also, a TIB Abuja branch cheque of N4 million was issued to Ibogun-Olaogun Development Association on 26 th February 2004. Ibogun-Olaogun is Obasanjo's village. From 1999 until after the elections in 2003, the President through Bodunde Adeyanju collected over N3billion from MOFAS account at TIB Abuja branch.
The MOFAS account is a dedicated account run by Otunba Fasawe which was made available to the Presidency and the party is well aware of movements into and from the account.
Marine Float was a dormant account placed at the disposal of the campaign.
The N500 million Umar Pariya was said to have collected was for campaign activities and for the settling of debts arising from the election expenditures by the party. Cheques drawn on this account and paid to the party, post-2003 election are available and some attached here.
Congressman William Jefferson is not credible. He took $6.5M from a Nigerian businessman and refused to supply equipment. He only managed to refund $1.7M.
Jefferson also lied that he gave the Vice President $100,000 only for the money to be found in his refrigerator by the FBI, as revealed in the affidavit deposited before a judge to obtain a search warrant for his Capitol Hill office.
It is not true that the President decided to probe his deputy after he was tipped off by a Jefferson associate. The President wants to punish the Vice President for frustrating his third agenda. It is an act of vendetta.
The President has always been privy, to all transactions as evidence in the flow of cash from TIB MOFAS account to his family, friends, political party, community and businesses.
The Payments were made to the campaign.
As regards the refund of Dariye donation, Governor Joshua Dariya has confirmed paying N100m from ecological fund to the PDP. In the course of investigating Plateau State Accounts, Nuhu Ribadu stumbled on this payment, he brought it to the attention of the Vice President who was the chairman of the campaign, and the Vice President took it up with the President who accepted that they had no option but to return the money. The President paid N50million and insisted since it was a joint ticket, that the Vice President would have to pay the balance. Anyway, Oyo's new admission that Obasanjo refunded N50m of the Dariye donation contradicts earlier claim by the President and PDP that the donation did not exist.
It is sad and unfortunate that the President would claim to have assisted the Vice President with the money. The Vice President and Otunba Oyewole Fasawe are known to have contributed N200million in 1998 to pay off Obasanjo's debt to banks. Since then, the Vice President has provided various financial assistance to the President.
Concerning Bodunde Adeyanju, the claim that the money he collected could not be more that N5million is also false as shown in the copies of cheques hereby attached. Or did Remi Oyo mean Bodunde collected about N5billion which is more in the region of withdrawals by Bodunde from the MOFAS accounts on behalf of President Obasanjo.
We would like to reaffirm that the so-called EFCC and administrative panel reports are politically motivated. The Atiku probe is motivated by malice and bitterness over the President's life presidency project. The Vice President has no regrets over his principled stand. The Nigerian people know that what is playing out now is the politics of vendetta and small-mindedness.
Finally, we note the fact of Mrs Oyo's uncharitable presentation of the Vice President as a beggarly junior, who is having to be helped out from time to time by an ever generous boss. Let it be said here that the Vice President will remain grateful to the President for whatever favours he had done to him. But it is also important that we don't forget where we are coming from. When the late Alhaji Mahmud Attah raised the pertinent issue of the alleged bankruptcy of the then Chief Obasanjo as an obstacle to his Presidency in 1998, the Vice President in consort with some others did take up the challenge, and with the debt on his neck now paid, threats to the General in his bid for power was starved off.
As Fela Anikulapo Kuti said in one of the songs, if we don't know where we are coming from, we won't know where we are going.
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Cover Story : Who is Lamide Adegbenro?
Posted by admin on 2006/9/18 13:15:24 (461 reads)
Separated from her husband after four kids, Lamide Adegbenro has found happiness in th President’s arm
She is known in government circles as one of the women who warm the president’s bed. But before becoming a presidential consort, Lamide Adegbenro had been a public figure in her own right. Once married to Engr. Niyi Adegbenro, a former Commissioner for Agriculture in Ogun State, Lamide was a famous figure on the social scene in Ogun State. The mother of four is a native of Ilisan Remo, but married an Owu man. In 2001, said sources, the marriage developed strains. Despite the intervention of family members and friends, the strains did not heal.
A year later, things had degenerated, prompting divorce requests by both parties. In a bid to save the marriage, President Obasanjo, who is something of father figure to Adegbenro, was called to intervene. The President invited the couple with a view to settling the dispute. But then his intervention were futile as Adegbenro and Lamide played hardball. There was only one way to go: apart. They separated. While Adegbenro remained in Abeokuta, Obasanjo asked Lamide to relocate to Abuja.
The relocation marked a new chapter in Lamide’s relationship with the President, as it became a full-blown love affair. It is not clear whether the affair began in Abeokuta or Abuja, but it began all the same. Soon, it grew more intense, as Lamide secured the direct line to Obasanjo’s heart and loins. This is evidenced by the recent revelation that the President bought her a Peugeot 607 car from contentious MOFAS Shipping Line account ran by Otunba Samuel Oyewole Fasawe. Aside this, the car purchase also suggests that the President may not be as tight-fisted as widely believed. At least, not to women who keep him warm.
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