More revelations are
still coming out on the
arms deal probe – The 2015 elections funds
of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) were allegedly
sourced from the then
Office of the National
Security Adviser (ONSA) – A former Secretary to
the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Chief Olu
Falae has tendered a
weighty evidence In order to clear his name in
the ongoing corruption-related
charges against him, Chief Olu
Falae has submitted to the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) an email correspondence between him
and a former chairman of the
PDP Board of Trustees, Chief
Tony Anenih. Falae Chief Olu Falae is battling to
clear his name of corruption-
charges Chief Falae tendered the email
as an evidence in the probe
linking him to N100m election
funds as the EFCC close in on
him. In the said email, Chief Anenih
mentioned that he was acting
on the instruction of former
President Goodluck Jonathan to
disburse the funds. A source at the EFCC told The
Punch that in the email dated
March 2015, Anenih informed
Falae that N100m had been
approved by Jonathan and
would be handed over to him (Falae). Chief Tony Anenih has been
mentioned severally in the
arms deal case Chief Tony Anenih has been
mentioned severally in the arms
deal case “In the email, Anenih told Chief
Falae, who is the chairman of
the SDP that N100m had been
approved by President Jonathan
as part of the agreement
between the PDP and the SDP ahead of the presidential
election. “He further urged Falae to
provide an account which the
money would be paid into,” the
source said. READ ALSO: EFCC boss spits fire, says commission fears
nobody except God The N100m, which was said to
have emanated from the
imprest account of the ONSA in
the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN). It was paid into the account of
Marreco Limited, a company
where Falae is chairman. The
fund was credited into the
company’s United Bank for
Africa Plc account, 1000627022, on March 25, 2015. Kudin makamai Former national security
adviser, Sambo Dasuki is still
under detention trying to clear
his name Spokesman for Falae, Mr Alfa
Mohammed confirmed that Falae
had submitted all
correspondence between Falae
and the PDP. “We had a letter of agreement
between the PDP and the SDP
regarding cooperation between
the two parties for the
election. “There was an email from
Anenih stating that Mr.
President (Jonathan) told him to
transfer the money to that
effect. “We have submitted everything
to the EFCC, but the EFCC has
not deemed it fit to invite
Anenih which shows that it is
people within the All
Progressives Congress that are just trying to rubbish the image
of Chief Falae, who has served
meritoriously as a permanent
secretary, a SGF and a finance
minister,” Mohammed said. Former President Goodluck
Jonathan has largely
remained quiet on all the
allegations against his
government Former President Goodluck
Jonathan has largely remained
quiet on all the allegations
against his government Mohammed went on to say the
PDP still owed the SDP about
N70m and it was unrealistic of
the EFCC to ask Falae to return
the N100m, adding that Falae
could not have known at that time that the money emanated
from the ONSA and thus could
not be declared guilty. Attempts to reach Mr
Ikechukwu Eze, spokesman for
ex-President Goodluck Jonathan
and Chief Anenih’s spokesman,
Mr Ojeifo Sufuyan to get their
reaction on the issue were not successful. READ ALSO: SEE what EFCC underground cells in Abuja look
like, how detainees are treated
(photos, video) In an interview earlier in the
year, Chief Falae had insisted he
had no dealing with Dasuki,
adding that he gave the PDP
six conditions before accepting
the party’s proposal and the N100 million. His words: “I never had any
dealings whatsoever with the
former National Security
Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki.
No relationship at all! “What I know was that Chief
Tony Anenih, chairman Board of
Trustee of the PDP approached
me before the last election
(presidential election of
Saturday, March 28, 2015) to seek the cooperation of my
party, the Social Democratic
Party (SDP) with his own party
in re-electing the former
president (Dr Goodluck
Jonathan) in what they could call an Inter-Party Cooperation
Agreement. And I gave him 6
conditions before we could
accede to that request.” Chief Falae told members of the
SPD National Executive Council in
Abuja that he was ashamed to be linked with the $2.1billion
arms scandal. He told the party stalwarts
that he would open up on the
contentious N100 million that he
collected from Chief Tony
Anenih, and “silence the
blackmailers.” Around the same period, Falae was reportedly booed by the
congregation at his local church -St. David’s Cathedral, Ijomu
street in Akure during a Sunday
service, after his name was
mentioned as one of the
beneficiaries of the deal. Source http://davesblog.over-blog.com/2016/08/arms-deal-probe-falae-provides-evidence-of-received-funds-indicting-jonathan.html