Ahmadu Alli, Nenadi stuck in N70m campaign mess

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied authorising its former National Chairman, Dr. Ahmadu Alli and a former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Nenadi Usman to carry out any transactions on its behalf.

The party stated this in a statement of defence it filed in a suit against it by a firm, Silon Concepts Limited, seeking an order compelling it to pay N70 million for the services it rendered during the 2015 presidential campaign.

The plaintiff had sued the PDP, Alli and Usman over their refusal to pay for the said services. Alli was the director-general of the 2015 PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, while Usman, a former senator in the 7th National Assembly, served as the Director of Finance of the campaign organisation.

But a mild drama played out at the continued hearing of the matter before an Abuja High Court in Kuje, yesterday when the PDP, in its statement of defence affirmed the membership of Alli and Usman, but denied authorising them to carry out the transaction before and after the presidential election.

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The statement of defence, dated June 18, 2015 and filed by counsel to the party, Kwon Victor, apart from denying authorising Alli and Usman to carry out the transaction, also disclaimed the Jointrust Dimension Nig. Ltd’s Zenith Bank Plc account number 1010740698 for which billions of naira went through and of which Senator Usman is the sole signatory.

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