Governor Ayodele Fayose has spoken out again regarding Aisha Buhari’s role in a bribery scandal

– The Ekiti state governor distributed a link to US Justice department showing evidence of funds transfered by Aisha Buhari

– Fayose claims that Buhari is as corrupt as those he is witch-hunting

Fayose relived the controversy on Monday, June 20,  stressing the role played by Buhari’s wife, in the messy bribery scandal involving Williams Jefferson, a US Congressman.

Governor Fayose says President Buhari is a corrupt man.

The Ekiti state governor distributed a link to the US Department of Justice’s website holding court documents where Aisha Buhari was alleged to have transferred suspicious funds to a convicted former American congressman, Williams Jefferson.

In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said President Buhari was far from being a clean man.

“Even the President cannot claim to be an angel,” the governor said, in reaction to the freezing of his Zenith Bank account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

“The estate he built in Abuja is known to us. His wife was indicted over the Halliburton Scandal (sic). When that American, Jefferson, was being sentenced, the President’s wife was mentioned as having wired $170,000 to Jefferson. Her name was on page 25 of the sentencing of Jefferson. We can serialize the judgment for people to see and read.”

The governor’s Special Assistant on New Media, Lere Olayinka, later circulated links to and copies of the court document detailing Mrs Buhari’s mention in the scandal.

The documents showed that in some of the exhibits tendered in convicting Mr. Jefferson of bribery, Mrs. Buhari was mentioned as transferring $170,000 to the American politician using a firm as proxy.



“Government Exhibits 36-87 (6/26/02 $170,000 wire transfer from account in Nigeria in the name of Aisha Buhari to an account in the name of The ANJ Group, LLC, identifying “William Jefferson” as Beneficiary),” the US Government Sentencing Memorandum said on page 22.

Aisha Buhari could not be reached for comments. And Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, declined comments, saying he would need to check the documents himself before issuing an official statement.

Fayose’s comment sparked a recollection of how Mr Jefferson, between 2000 and 2005, used his position as member of the U.S. House of Representatives to offer illegal services to private companies for cash rewards.

Premium Times reports that Jefferson and his family, according to US authorities, received about $367,500 through through his firm, ANJ Group, for services rendered to iGate, an American broadband technology provider.

An indigenous firm, Netlink Digital Television, had signed a joint venture with iGate to set up digital satellite TV and broadband Internet services in the country. NDTV was owned by Oyewole Fasawe, a PDP chieftain at the time.

Mr. Jefferson was contracted to help promote iGate and NDTV partnership in Nigeria.

Following a lengthy trial, Mr. Jefferson was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Although Mr. Fasawe was arrested in 2005 by the EFCC, he was never convicted.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar were also said to be a person of interest in the allegations.

A final report released by the EFCC on June 22, 2006 about the bribery scandal also contained Mrs. Buhari’s Citizens Bank account statements and how she transferred funds to Mr. Jefferson.

A 2007 New York Times’ article detailed how Mrs. Buhari told an acquaintance in Washington that she was a daughter of a former Nigerian head of state and a friend of Mr. Jefferson.

“As the pair struck up a conversation and subsequently became friends, Mr. Assiba, then a security guard, said she told him that her father was the former military ruler of Nigeria, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and that her American friends included politicians like Mr. Jefferson of Louisiana.”

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Let the games begin. May the best politician win.

Iffa hear

Watching

Mr presido, I hope it's not true... Cos if it is you have being caught in ur craftiness. I always wondered why he won't probe the Halliburton case and why obj is always strolling to aso rock. "Nobody is truly innocent" (Mr Kim prison break)

This allegations heavy oh, BuBu come defend ur self and family.

It's not a secret, it's an open fact that Aisha Buhari is deeply enmeshed in the muddy Halliburton scandal and that's why Buhari couldn't go ahead with the investigation so why are these bloggers acting like they just revealed a new secret ? Smh

Whoever lies on oat to a court and forges result is a very corrupt man. Whoever refuses to produce same result instead hires 20 SANs to defend him and shield him from obeying the court request is very dishonest. Every other corrupt act man commits start from dishonesty, which is buhari's second nature.

more scenes from dis 4 years drama. actor n bose. *watching in 5D*

I like this already. If fayose is lying, by all means sue him, but if it's true she did that, then it's time she face the consequences.

Imagine reading on the news "Even the President's wife not spared in the anti-corruption war?". Lol....

RZArecta:
It's not a secret, it's an open fact that Aisha Buhari is deeply enmeshed in the muddy Halliburton scandal and that's why Buhari couldn't go ahead with the investigation so why are these bloggers acting like they just revealed a new secret ? Smh

Is it not a secret? If to you it's not to us it is, thought you guys say he is incorruptable. Shm for you, look at how u down played it, it seems they Apc and BuBu is drinking fura da nono on ur head, Zombies everywhere

we are watching with keen interest ooo

Every Nigeria is thief

hopeforcharles:

[s]Is it not a secret? If to you it's not to us it is, thought you guys say he is incorruptable. Shm for you, look at how u down played it, it seems they Apc and BuBu is drinking fura da nono on ur head, Zombies everywhere [/s]

read what I wrote again..... Slowly

Buhari is deliberately blind to the truth. A man who claims to fight corruption but can not see corruption fighting him from a close range. Dullard!

This is a hit back, yoou freeze my account, i open my mouth!

RZArecta:
read what I wrote again..... Slowly

Open fact to who? And here it is trending, dont You See. By the way that BuBu pic on ur dp is the funniest thing I have seen this morning,

I think it's not Aisha Buhari his wife but Aisha Buhari his second daughter.

See how fools comment without reasoning? Where is the source of that info? U r all like Fayose. If all PMB can achieve is to set precedence for anti corruption, then he has achieved a great deal. Rulership cannot be devoid of shortcomings, as it's impossible to rule without failure to an extent. The world is a stage and we can all only play our part,His administration can't bring the whole "CHANGE". And in the end,
Fayose and you wailers will be on the wrong side of history. We need good roads not Biafra, We want social justice. not Pardon for Looters, we need Security not avengers. If things go on like this, we might end up like the Boko haram ravaged North.

I've always maintained that Buhari is as corrupt as every other politician in this country, there's no saint in politics! But nauseating is the hypocrisy of this man, a man who is the very product of staring corruption! SMH