Barely 24 hours to the inauguration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as the new governor of Ogun State, out-going governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel Friday night travelled to London, fuelling speculation that he may have fled to avert arrest for alleged corruption.
Daniel left aboard a British Airways flight to London. A British Airways official confirmed to THISDAY that Daniel was aboard the flight to the United Kingdom last night.

The trip, coming less than 24 hours to the swearing in of his successor is rather curious, given the controversy that has been trailing his administration, particularly as regard alleged corruption.
Daniel left when he still enjoys immunity from arrest as an incumbent governor. He loses the immunity by May 29 when his tenure expires.

A few days ago, he admitted that he left behind a debt of N49 billion.
In a move targeted at Daniel, some of the top officials that worked with him particularly the Director-General of the Bureau of Lands & Survey, Gbenga Ogunnoiki, had been under investigation for some time now by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Although EFCC officials declined comments Friday night on Daniel’s curious trip, they, however, admitted they had been discreetly investigating Daniel.
Daniel had lamented that despite his efforts at taking the state to a greater height, he was constrained to leave behind N49, 232,597,163.67 debts.

He stated this while receiving a compendium of financial statements of the state from 2003 to 2010 as well as the government’s cash flow from January to March 31, 2011, from the state Accountant-General (AG), Mr. Seye Senfuye.
The ceremony was a valedictory State Executive Council (SEC) meeting held at the Governor’s Office, Abeokuta Friday.
According to him, his administration had done what was expected of it in terms of infrastructural and human capital development.
The financial statements showed that the state government owed N49, 232,597,163.67 as at March 31, 2011, including cash-based liabilities of N26, 453,260,717.13 and contingent liabilities at N22, 779,336,446.54.
Daniel, who said his administration had done its best, lamented that his efforts were thwarted by what he described as insensitivity and un-cooperative attitude of some members of the state House of Assembly. The Assembly members, according to Daniel, failed to approve his moves to access bond from the capital market.

Daniel commended the AG and his team for working tirelessly to publish the state’s statements of accounts and challenged them to distribute the public document to all agencies and parastatals including EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and several others

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Who told u nd your people dt he is runing away eh?hw do u even think they can't reach he or do u think he won't come back or is london nw too far?he ll be found cos he is nt planning to hide.if man can't find him God can cos there is no place for d wicked.

He went to ask IBORI some questions?

Despite leaving N49bln debt with nothing to show for it, this fool had wanted to raise another N100 bond in addition.