PPAngel:
If you don't know who the notorious lebanese Business mongul, Gilbert Chagoury is then I suggest you do a google searc on him and see this thread as well https://www.nairaland.com/2275928/how-tinubus-loot-ends-up which details Chagoury's solid network in the white house.

Tinubu owes Chagoury a lot! It will be safe to assume that chagoury is Tinubu's godfather.

That aside, Chagoury's role in blocking US assistance in combating boko haram through lobbying and funding of the Clinton foundation which saw then State Secretary Clinton vehmently refuse to designate Boko Haram as an FTO has began to come to light.

Chagoury is the link between a Buhari win and the White House. And just like in the old Abacha days, Chagoury is set to occupy a special place in the Buhari administration.

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

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PPAngel:
APC leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, may have commenced his deft moves as he recently  brought the very notorious  Chagoury brothers to meet with the president-elect in a closed door meeting.

It was not clear what was discussed but consider the fact the Chagoury brothers, who threw in some cash for the Buhari Campaign,  are big players of sundry shades, business deals would have featured prominently.

The Lebanon brothers played a prominent role in helping the Abacha family stash billions of stolen state cash in foreign banks.

Immediately after Abacha’s death, ex EFCC czar, Nuhu Ribadu, who unsuccessfully tried to indict and arrest Chagoury in 2004,  then a young police investigator, said he began looking into the dictator’s financial affairs.

“It wasn’t uncommon for Nigerian leaders to put money elsewhere,” Ribadu says. “But the magnitude was beyond anybody’s comprehension.”

The money — estimated at more than $4 billion — was stashed in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and the Isle of Jersey in the names of dozens of individuals and companies. Ribadu argues that it was Chagoury who vouched for Abacha’s sons at banks where the source of their assets might otherwise have been questioned.

Indeed, Chagoury’s Swiss attorney, Luc Argand, said his client served as a reference for Abacha’s sons at Credit Suisse.

The Nigerian government eventually requested help from law enforcement around the world in tracking the stolen assets.

In 2000, Chagoury was convicted in Geneva, Switzerland, of laundering money and aiding a criminal organization in connection with the billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria during the Abacha years.

Six  years after Gen. Sani Abacha’s death, Ribadu’s officers stood ready to take  Gilbert Chagoury down. Ribadu says that Chagoury made it possible for Abacha to steal billions of dollars and lined his own pockets in the process.

The prosecutor says he indicted Chagoury and ordered his arrest for relatively minor violations related to Chagoury’s businesses so that he could later bring additional charges for his activities in the Abacha era.

Private business tycoons are not left out of the visits, Forte Oil CEO, Femi Otedola, and Oando boss Adewale Tinubu also visited Buhari last week.

Both money men donated millions of dollars to the Buhari Campaign Organisation. Speculations have it that the name of the  Oando boss has been suggested to Buhari by  Asiwaju  as the next Petroleum Minister.

Although  Chagoury denies any involvement in the Halliburton bribery case, but his name surfaced in notes taken by one of the indictees, Chodan, who kept detailed records of so-called cultural meetings, where bribes were discussed.

One entry reads, “$250 … to IPCO via Chagoury.”
When I ask Chagoury about these records, he doesn’t dispute that the note refers to a sum of $250 million, but he argues that it refers to a contract, which, he says, was legitimately awarded to one of his companies, IPCO Nigeria Limited, for construction related to the liquefied natural gas plant.

Reports say  Buhari,  however refused to have audience with  the current Comptroller-General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde,  and NSCDC boss , Ade Abolurin, who visited his residence in Daura to “pay homage.”

Yankarireporters.com learnt that the customs boss,  immediately after informing the President-Elect of his mission was advised to go back to his duty post.

Dikko, shocked by Buhari’s response tried unsuccessfully to inform the retired General of the situation at all Nigeria’s borders, seaport and the airports, but the President-elect upbraided the 55 year-old that the ideal procedure is to wait until he has been sworn in as president, describing the visit as unhealthy, unethical and disloyalty to a government he is still serving.

The visit of the current Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Ade Abolurin, was reportedly more dramatic. He  arrived Daura with top officers of the corps, photographers and some members of

According to a member of the Buhari Campaign from Katsina, “The President-Elect was having his normal quiet time when the delegation arrived”.

The corps officers led by its commandant were left outside in the scorching sun for over an hour, before the commandant and two corps officers were allowed entry into the President-elect’s visitors room.

But shortly after an aide of Buhari, said that the retired General wants him out of his residence and will not be seeing him.


But Buhari had time for Gilbert Chagoury!

iammo1:



yamree focusing on tinubu, lets face it : your campaign of hate didnt stop urhobo man from beating shameless ekwearemadu blue black for the DSP slot.

Tinubu would be battered by you prickss no doubt but Yoruba always come out stroger

TylerDurden:
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Kola Abiola has told you how Tinubu, Soyinka, NADECO and some Yoruba obas betrayed his father.

The June 12 you are ascribing to Tinubu and currently celebrating came with Abiola been betrayed and sold by the same degenerate backstabbing criminals you worship as your leaders.
Fool

schoolboij:


The same Tinubu has done the best thing to the memory of Abiola. Abiola lost it immediately babangida annulled the election. Nothing anybody could have done to right the wrong. [b]Only a fool would expect abacha to just hand over power to Abiola. [/b]The best abacha could do was to release him from prison, which he did but Abiola refused. I don't blame abach for Abiola's woes. I only blame babangida and Abiola himself for not knowing when to quit. In political power play, it's every man for himself.

schoolboij:


The same Tinubu has done the best thing to the memory of Abiola. Abiola lost it immediately babangida annulled the election. Nothing anybody could have done to right the wrong. Only a fool would expect abacha to just hand over power to Abiola. The best abacha could do was to release him from prison, which he did but Abiola refused. I don't blame abach for Abiola's woes. I only blame babangida and Abiola himself for not knowing when to quit. In political power play, it's every man for himself.

TylerDurden:
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Now how did this crooked alliance between the thief Tinubu and smart Chagoury? The alliance was cemented way back when Abacha was searching for an afonja to be his vice during his transition to civilian President.

It was same Chagoury that recommended Tinubu!

PentiumPro:
Only on NL you can escape libel

TylerDurden:


[s]Truth is bitter


Awon afonjess gorilla biaches[/s]

helinues:
Tinubu this, Tinubu that..

Even on Sunday Holy day..

How you guys derived joy in wasting your energy to bring unbringable people down still wondering me.

My people are religious yet evil and wicked at the same time

WisdomFlakes:


Unfortunately a lot of people like the Op commenting on NL about this subject were probably not even around then. I was in my late teens during June 12 period, and recall vividly how Abiola encouraged the masses to support Abacha. I particularly remember a conversation I was having with a group of folks at a newspaper stand right after Abacha overthrew Shonekan where we were debating whether Abiola's open endorsement of Abacha was a wise one. We felt that since Abiola supported his takeover then maybe he wouldn't be so bad.

flames01:


Your post looks interesting and engaging until you exposed yourself with the bolded as a flaaaaathead with limited sense.

PentiumPro:


You never start. Use your energy for something more productive

TylerDurden:
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I just got admission into UNIBEN in 1994 when all this shit began

slowpoke

flames01:


What ever you say, tinubu is a thief and a selfish person, while you are an inconsequential pawn on his chess board

TylerDurden:


[s]Like how you dey born omo ale bastards up and down from that your stench trench


Abeg, face your baby mammy business[/s]

TylerDurden:


Afonja, I am no Osu but a proud Niger Deltan

MagicBishop

WisdomFlakes:


You have allowed your hatred for Tinubu to tamper with you reasoning that is why all your conspiracy theories are borne out of bitterness and hatred. Go and get a life.

TylerDurden:


Afonja, I am no Osu but a proud Niger Deltan

MagicBishop

PentiumPro:


At 44, sense is getting farther away from you bishopjuice. You are finished

TylerDurden:


Yes. Tinubu is influential and rich today because morons like you who have no morality and sense of justice elevated a crooked drug addict cum ritualist bastard as your leader.

In every sense, you deserve Tinubu just as the bokos in the north adore their Khalifa.

But what you must come to realise is that not everybody or national in Nigeria will accept that bastard kleptomaniac as their leader.

Kappish

TylerDurden:


Correction, I just turned 40.

Enter Uni at 15 unlike you wey write jamb 5 times