I don’t know the source of money paid into my account –Fani-Kayode

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has claimed he does not know the source of funds paid into his account.
Fani-Kayode was reacting to reports that he received N840 million in illegal funds shortly before the 2015 presidential election.

The former minister, who was the Director of Media and Publicity for the Jonathan/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organization, was named among six other chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who benefited from the sharing of N3.145 billion transferred from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to holding account in Zenith Bank before it was disbursed.

However, in his reaction, Fani-Kayode said the funds were paid into his account by Nenadi Usman, who was director of finance of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign.

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“The campaign asked me to open an account for my campaign directorate, which I did. They then paid the money in for the assignment I was given. I asked them where the money came from. They said it was from private contribution for the Jonathan campaign. I believed them, and I had no way of knowing exactly where the money came from.

“As far as I’m concerned, it was campaign funds, and the money was used for the purpose for which it was meant. And we accounted for it to the man who gave us a job to do, President Jonathan,” Fani-Kayode said.

It would be recalled that the media had been awash with reports that Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has discovered the disbursement of the said funds to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Chief Olu Falae, a former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Nenadi Usman, a former Imo State Governor, Achike Udenwa, a former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Viola Onwuliri and Mr. Okey Ezenwa.

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