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EFCC sinks teeth deeper into Obanikoro, invites former ADC

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8 years ago

July 12, 2016

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In order to get more evidence to nail a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the EFCC, has summoned his former Aide-de-Camp, ADC, Lt. A.O Adewale, a Naval officer for questioning.

Lt. Adewale was alleged to have accompanied the former minister on one of the flights that ferried the alleged N1.3 billion for Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, for his election in 2014, to the Akure Airport from Lagos.

According to an EFCC source, Lt. Adewale is expected to report at the anti-graft agency’s headquarters on Wednesday for interrogation.

The source further said Lt. Adewale was invited last week but he asked to report Wednesdayafter getting clearance from the Navy.

The source said: “We are expecting him on Wednesday. Our team of investigators is on standby to interact with the naval officer who was the ADC to Obanikoro.

“We took time to invite him because investigation has not reached his own curve. Now, as a star witness to the movement and the modus operandi of the ex-minister, we need to hear from him.

“We are interested in his role in the movement of the cash to Fayose’s associate.”

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In the same vein, detained former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, is reportedly under pressure to give out the names of Senators and House of Representatives members who benefited from the N60bn budget padding during the 6th Assembly.

It would be recalled that detectives of the EFCC had stumbled on the a document on a strange allocation of N60bn to some Senators and House of Representatives members of the 6th Assembly while searching Omisore’s Abuja home.

A source in the EFCC, said Omisore, who was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation in the 6th Senate, has refused to name the beneficiaries.

Though on bed rest at the EFCC clinic in Abuja, the former Osun State deputy governor, is said to be in a stable condition and interacting freely with investigative officers.

The source said further: “Instead of giving the details of budget padding in the 6th National Assembly between 2007 and 2011, Omisore told our operatives that ‘I will help you with the list of those behind 2016 budget padding.’ We said we are only working on the document on budget padding which we retrieved from his residence in Abuja.

“This, however, does not prevent us from going ahead with the ongoing probe of the padding as seen from the evidence in the document. We will crack this dimension to his case.”

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