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Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17: 9:12pm On May 22, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Despite moving to APC, two ex-governors charged with money laundering


May 22, 2018

Abdulaziz Abdulaziz


Two former governors who last year decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are among a host of suspects to be tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

A former governor of Zamfara State, Mahmud Shinkafi, and that of Kebbi State, Sa’idu Dakingari, will be docked by the anti-corruption agency for breaching the country’s anti money laundering law.



Already, charges have been prepared and filed at federal high courts in the respective states, against the two former governors and their alleged accomplices.

Critics of the federal agency often accuse it of allegedly going after opposition politicians only.

However Messrs Shinkafi and Dakingari decamped to the APC last year, without citing any reasons for their action, in a wave of defections across the country.

Critics described such defections as a means of escaping corruption charges.

In March, the two former governors attended a meeting of the ruling party’s caucus, presided by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa.

PREMIUM TIMES reported Mr Shinkafi’s decamping to the APC, in November 2017, where he was received by the deputy governor of the state, Ibrahim Wakkala.

The former governor, after picking his membership card, promised to work for the development of the party not only at the state level but the country as a whole.

“My coming to APC is home coming for me, because I left it before and now I am back home to my brothers and sisters. Together we are going to work for the party to become stronger and the party to beat in the state,” he said.



On the eve of 2017, Mr Dakingari led some high profile PDP members in his state of Kebbi into the APC.

The defectors were received by the state governor, Abubakar Bagudu, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

Mahmud Shinkafi
The former governor, after picking his membership card, promised to work for the development of the party not only at the state level but the country as a whole.

“My coming to APC is home coming for me, because I left it before and now I am back home to my brothers and sisters. Together we are going to work for the party to become stronger and the party to beat in the state,” he said.

On the eve of 2017, Mr Dakingari led some high profile PDP members in his state of Kebbi into the APC.

The defectors were received by the state governor, Abubakar Bagudu, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that Mr Shinkafi will be docked before federal high court in Gusau, Zamfara state capital, on May 28, while the arraignment of Mr Dakingari is slated for June 20.

The Diezani ‘Poisoned Chalice’

The top politicians of the PDP stock are enmeshed in corruption investigations following discovery by investigators of how Nigeria’s former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, funnelled $115 million to fund the party’s campaign.

The money, stashed with Fidelity Bank, was shared to PDP campaign coordinators and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to ensure success of the PDP in the 2015 polls.



In a nationwide crackdown, EFCC arrested and detained many politicians across the federation who are believed to be party to collection and distribution of the slush funds.

Some INEC staff were also convicted for taking cuts in the N23 billion election bazaar.

On Monday, former Minister of Water Resources, Mukhtari Shagari, was arraigned along with four others for allegedly indulging in the funds.

Others charged along with Mr Shagari are Abdullahi Wali, Ibrahim Gidado, Nasiru Bafarawa and Ibrahim Milgoma.

They are accused of receiving N500 million from Mrs Alison-Madueke’s slush funds “without transacting through a financial institution and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 18(a) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act”.

Sweeping Trials
An insider at the EFCC told PREMIUM TIMES that the commission’s leadership had decided to prepare charges against all those involved.

Saidu Dakingari
However, careful not to lose the cases on account of lack of adequate evidence to convict the suspects, the EFCC has decided to go after what the official called “low hanging fruits”.

Instead of charging the suspects with stealing public funds or conspiracy to commit act of corruption, the commission has decided to go after the “more obvious” money laundering offences.

The suspects are therefore mainly charged with breach of anti-money laundering regulations of wiring large amounts of cash through financial institutions.

Others slated for trial in this wave of prosecution, are former Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, and another former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali, both from Kano state.

While Mr Wali is said to have confessed to collecting money from the slush funds, Mr Shekarau is said to have denied involvement. An aide who was also initially identified as the one who collected Mr Shekarau’s share has reportedly recanted.

Already, Mr Shekarau has alleged witch-hunt. In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by his spokesperson, Sule Sule, he said the EFCC was trying to prosecute him despite having no evidence.



Mr Shekarau served as education minister under the Goodluck Jonathan presidency and has indicated interest to run for president in 2019 under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“Since 2016, when the issue of election fund came up, Shekarau was invited by the EFCC to explain the amount given to him along with other stakeholders of the (PDP) party in Kano, but he denied ever receiving such amount and challenged EFCC to produce any one who has given him the money or any evidence to prove that he actually collected the money,” Mr Sule said in the statement.

In Jigawa, former junior minister of foreign affairs, Nurudeen Mohammed, and the governorship candidate of PDP in the state, Aminu Ringim, are also being prepared for arraignment.

As Jigawa state’s most senior representatives in the then government, Mr Mohammed reportedly collected the cash ‘contribution’ for the PDP campaign in the state, and handed the money over to Mr Ringim, who was the party’s candidate and close aide of then governor Sule Lamido.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/269345-exclusive-despite-moving-to-apc-two-ex-governors-charged-with-money-laundering.html

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17: 9:17pm On May 22, 2018
You can add Orji Uzor Kalu to the list..
If you do the crime, get ready to do the time...

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Firefire(m): 9:20pm On May 22, 2018
Smoke screen. Useless administration of rogues.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Achuwa1(m): 9:34pm On May 22, 2018
Arranger trial

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by midolian(m): 9:34pm On May 22, 2018
Firefire:
Smoke screen. Useless administration of rogues.
grin grin grin

Firefire, you have additional 4years of wailing to do grin

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Achuwa1(m): 9:34pm On May 22, 2018
Arrangee trial

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by SalamRushdie: 9:36pm On May 22, 2018
It's deji17 defending an evil govt again ...Dont be like Deji

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Dagaya(m): 9:39pm On May 22, 2018
Sacrificial lambs. Election time is here again. Someone has to pay the price.
The only way for buhari's administration propaganda about corruption to fly its if he starts it with one of his cabinet members.
only then will Nigerians look at it without prejudice.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Firefire(m): 9:40pm On May 22, 2018
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midolian:
grin grin grin

Firefire, you have additional 4years of wailing to do grin
[/s]

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17: 9:44pm On May 22, 2018
SalamRushdie:
It's deji17 defending an evil govt again ...Dont be like Deji

What are you trying to say?

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by chuksjuve(m): 9:54pm On May 22, 2018
Smoke screen

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by joe4christ(m): 10:58pm On May 22, 2018
I don't celebrate mediocrity!

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by iluvdonjazzy: 11:04pm On May 22, 2018
thank God they are all from the north

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Paperwhite(m): 11:06pm On May 22, 2018
How it's wished the APC corruption fight was non-selective in its entire ramifications.Nobody could have any moral ground to complain.
But nay,any corruption by an APC member is no corruption as they are the most holy set of infallible people. undecided

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by johnmartus(m): 11:14pm On May 22, 2018
This government have gone so far in bringing sanity to our country

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by naijaking1: 11:16pm On May 22, 2018
Firefire:
Smoke screen. Useless administration of rogues.

No be small one.
Yoh can also seen patterns of Buhari smoke screen everywhere:

Trump complaints murdering Nigerian Christians in cold blood, what happens the next day? Oh , a mosque is bombed to produce a smoke screen.

Now, Buhari while remaining corrupt himself seems to have fashioned out a good political slogan about fighting corruption.

99.9% of all his victims are political, tribal, or religious enemies, a token number of APC members who never liked Buhari in the first place, and he knows it, is being used as a smoke screen to show that he is fighting corruption evenly.

He's retarded and thinks we're too.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Achuwa1(m): 11:23pm On May 22, 2018
[[b]/b]martus(m): 11:14pm
This government have gone so far in bringing sanity to our country


How can a corrupt leader & president bring sanity into a system that he leads or heads

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17: 11:41pm On May 22, 2018
johnmartus:
This government have gone so far in bringing sanity to our country
But trust wailers to twist it again. What they are too ashamed to say is: Let all looters be. The closest they came at saying that is: Bring Back their corruption. If they have their ways, they just want Buhari to disapear with the anticorruption.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by GavelSlam: 12:10am On May 23, 2018
SalamRushdie:
It's deji17 defending an evil govt again ...Dont be like Deji

Just say you love corruption and you would defend any government official being tried for such.

Simple.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by CodeTemplar: 12:14am On May 23, 2018
We can see through the new attempt at swaying neutral mind by going after APC members halfheartedly. Sarrki A.K.A. Deji17 stop the desperate 2019 push.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by RZArecta2(m): 12:15am On May 23, 2018
Bùllshít

This is how it'll play out.

- There'll be no media trials for these guys, this is just a charade.

- Garba Shehu and other APC zombies won't mock them online.

- Case will be bungled in court by brain dead EFCC lawyers in the fashion of Festus Keyamo.

- Proceedings will either be adjourned indefinitely to test their loyalty till after elections or they'll be discharged and acquitted without a whimper from the EFCC after licking Buhari's anùs.

My submission which is always right cool

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by SalamRushdie: 12:17am On May 23, 2018
GavelSlam:


Just say you love corruption and you would defend any government official being tried for such.

Simple.

Ain't nobody more honest and more honourable than I am Gavel

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by GavelSlam: 12:25am On May 23, 2018
SalamRushdie:


Ain't nobody more honest and more honourable than I am Gavel

Every regular on this forum knows your reputation as a liar and supporter of iniquity.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by buhariguy(m): 12:37am On May 23, 2018
OK, the jobless lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra will say they are PDP decampee

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by deji17: 3:14am On May 23, 2018
CodeTemplar:
We can see through the new attempt at swaying neutral mind by going after APC members halfheartedly. Sarrki A.K.A. Deji17 stop the desperate 2019 push.
You have no idea. We underatand that your heart is already with the looters. Nobody will try to sway it. But you understand that you only represent yourself and probably other wailers like yourself who are few in numbers anyway. 5%?

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Nobody: 3:55am On May 23, 2018
You have the orji uzor, sylvia, obanikoro already on ground and just possibly easier to convict, but NO.... they decided to start another court process leading to the election...

You cant fool everyone, everytime...

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Mikeross62: 4:00am On May 23, 2018
These country is gradually turning to a one party state and a country of chop make I chop.in sane countries its either they are sentenced to death for corruption or laundering,here in Nigeria we are so sentimental that we allow things to happen and go without questioning.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by syberplus(m): 4:35am On May 23, 2018
Firefire:
Smoke screen. Useless administration of rogues.
chuksjuve:
Smoke screen
Dagaya:
Sacrificial lambs. Election time is here again. Someone has to pay the price.
The only way for buhari's administration propaganda about corruption to fly its if he starts it with one of his cabinet members.
only then will Nigerians look at it without prejudice.


I concur with you guys 100%. It's all a part of the play

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by Firefire(m): 4:45am On May 23, 2018
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buhariguy:
OK, the jobless lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra will say they are PDP decampee
[/s]

I can see that in recent time the terrorists supporters of Buhary can no longer construct a sentence without the word “Biafra” in it.

This is nothing but pain and agony of the Biafra struggle which will surely come through in distant future. You guys should continue in your agony.

In case you don’t know, I am no Biafra; Omo Oodua ni mi tokan’tokan.

Shame on the useless administration of rogues and Jobless followers.

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by vedaxcool(m): 6:08am On May 23, 2018
grin grin grin why is life so unfair to wailing zombies?

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Re: Shinkafi And Dakingari Charged With Money Laundering, Despite Moving To APC by HoluwarTohbar(f): 6:11am On May 23, 2018
deji17:
You can add Orji Uzor Kalu to the list..
If you do the crime, get ready to do the time...
Nothing will come out it. You know I know that you know.

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