Sources told SaharaReporters on Monday that Gbajabiamila was fingered as one of the beneficiaries of the largesse of corruption uncovered under Ahmed Kuru, the Chief Executive Officer of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.

President Bola Tinubu is currently under pressure over his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila’s alleged involvement in corruption.

Sources told SaharaReporters on Monday that Gbajabiamila was fingered as one of the beneficiaries of the largesse of corruption uncovered under Ahmed Kuru, the Chief Executive Officer of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.

The Special Investigator, Jim Obazee’s report, exposed how Gbajabiamila benefitted from Ahmed Kuru’s “largesse of Ikoyi properties from his days as Speaker of the House of Representatives,” according to top sources in the presidency.

One of the sources told SaharaReporters that Gbajabiamila in return had ensured Kuru remained as AMCON’s Chief Executive after about nine years.

Already, fresh information has emerged about how Godwin Emefiele and Ahmed Kuru, the AMCON CEO conspired in gross abuse of office to acquire banks of choice using public funds to fraudulently take over Polaris, Keystone and Unions Banks.

SaharaReporters obtained the Special Investigator’s report on the probe of Emefiele which uncovered the alarming sums of public funds which went into the fraudulent acquisition of the banks under Emefiele and AMCON under Kuru's leadership.

SaharaReporters on January 10 reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) dissolved the board and management of Titan Trust Bank, Union Bank, Polaris Bank and Keystone Bank.

This followed a report submitted to President Bola Tinubu by the Special Investigator on the Central Bank of Nigeria and Related Entities, Jim Obazee.

it was reported that the decision to dissolve the boards was taken after a meeting between the CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso, Obazee and the boards of the four banks including Titan Trust Bank’s investors who had earlier avoided meeting with the Special Investigator.

SaharaReporters reported in December 2023 that the office of the Special Investigator had insisted that the Chairman of Titan Trust Bank (TTB), Mr Tunde Lemo, Mr Cornelius Vink and Rahul Savara must appear before it over the acquisition of the Union Bank of Nigeria.

Meanwhile, on Monday, SaharaReporters learnt that Obazee’s investigation uncovered a scheme by Emefiele (CBN) and Ahmed Kuru (AMCON) that placed N20 billion investment in Heritage Bank sometime in 2017 upon which the bank granted a loan of N25 billion to the Sigma Golf Consortium of Emefiele, Kuru, Abu Funtua, Asega Alega with Umaru Modibbo (as front) to acquire Keystone Bank.

Investigations by the special investigator exposed how the N25 billion government fund was roundtripped from Heritage Bank to Access Bank and ended in GTBank, where it was purportedly transferred to AMCON/CBN as payment for the acquisition of Keystone Bank by the Riverbank Sigma Golf Consortium.

It was learnt that in an unusual and unpredictable turn of events, the Presidential and CBN directive to sack the Boards of Union, Keystone, and Polaris Banks, took the Riverbank Signa Golf Consortium by surprise.

Independent financial investigations revealed that Ahmed Kuru threw all others under the bus to save his neck by blackmailing all government officials who had benefitted from his generosity through the sharing of Ikoyi and Abuja properties.

A forensic observer noted that the special investigator's report that did not indict Kuru raised concerns over whether it was deliberate as a result of a bargain.

“President Bola Tinubu is under pressure from some political associates, whom Kuru has soiled their white robes including the Hon Femi Gbajabiamila (President’s Chief of Staff), who has benefitted from Ahmed Kuru’s largesse of Ikoyi properties from his days as Speaker of the House of Representatives,” a source in the Aso Rock said.

The source noted that “Gbaja had persistently blocked Ahmed Kuru’s removal as AMCON’s Chief Executive after about 9 years in office, over two terms of a democratically elected President.”

An independent investigator sharing an opinion indicated that “It is clear that the only organ of government that has resources for criminal and forensic investigation of economic and financial crimes is the EFCC. The Jim Obazee Special Investigating team has only managed to point to areas of infractions but has not succeeded in forensic tracing and following of the money. It can only be strategic that the government hand all the cases over to the EFCC, remove Ahmed Kuru from office and switch around a few Directors in the Central Bank who without doubt may be complicit with Godwin Emefiele in this criminal conduct.

“Otherwise, with those actors in positions, they will continue to obstruct the investigation. You can see the limitations of the Presidential Special Investigators in the CBN establishment. Otherwise, Yemi Cardoso (incumbent CBN Governor) will remain in an invisible walled hostage environment of Emefiele's network in the CBN, as Gbaja has surrounded the President with whispers of half-truths.”

Efforts to reach Gbajabiamila and Kuru failed as they did not answer their calls or reply to the text messages sent to their mobile line.


https://saharareporters.com/2024/01/23/exclusive-tinubu-under-pressure-chief-staff-gbajabiamila-indicted-corruption-probe-ex

Which kind of indictment is that one? Only a court of competent jurisdiction over the matter can adequately dispense the matter and appropriate sanctions

Nobody is under pressure, they know what to do if they find him guilty. The only person under pressure are the people reading the post thinking something will happen. Lol

Fashola is better suited for the position.

Yeyenatu....

All you read in the media are what you get to read because the real NEWS are Censored....

Corruption is a Major part of our Country...

Tinubu na drug baron

There is Nothing a Criminal Can Do to a Criminal, They Both Have Each Others Authentic Criminal Facts & Records.

It is a Criminal Enterprise & Association

All of them are all part of the leadership of the APC and the last administration, their hands are all in the thievery and looting under the last administration

The Current Chief of Staff is one of the Leaders in the National Assembly, part of the APC leadership. They are all part of the people who looted the nation dry under the last administration

Even if They Have All The Facts to Prosecute , They Will Appear Before Tinubu Judge / Justice, You Know The Rest

A drug baron has nothing to offer

I Confidently Say pNothing Will Happen

Vagabonds in power

Las las all Nigerian politicians are thieves. The only difference between an average Nigerian politician and an arm robber is that while the robbers use gun to rob the politicians use pen to rob

COMRADES
Which pressure tinubu is under? Himself and his cohorts are very corrupt

Even Amoda is extremely corrupt. Corruption cannot genuinely fight corruption

Fasola has to intention of working under Tinubu again. He knows Amoda is a dangerous crook

seunmsg:
Fashola is better suited for the position.

Nothing like under any pressure...
Nothing happened
And there is nothing Nigerians can do about it

A criminal can never persecute a fellow criminal

People like Betty Edu are just the sacrificial lamb used to decor to devert Nigerian attention from the reals criminals...

Antoeni:
Sources told SaharaReporters on Monday that Gbajabiamila was fingered as one of the beneficiaries of the largesse of corruption uncovered under Ahmed Kuru, the Chief Executive Officer of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.

President Bola Tinubu is currently under pressure over his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila’s alleged involvement in corruption.

Sources told SaharaReporters on Monday that Gbajabiamila was fingered as one of the beneficiaries of the largesse of corruption uncovered under Ahmed Kuru, the Chief Executive Officer of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.

The Special Investigator, Jim Obazee’s report, exposed how Gbajabiamila benefitted from Ahmed Kuru’s “largesse of Ikoyi properties from his days as Speaker of the House of Representatives,” according to top sources in the presidency.

One of the sources told SaharaReporters that Gbajabiamila in return had ensured Kuru remained as AMCON’s Chief Executive after about nine years.

Already, fresh information has emerged about how Godwin Emefiele and Ahmed Kuru, the AMCON CEO conspired in gross abuse of office to acquire banks of choice using public funds to fraudulently take over Polaris, Keystone and Unions Banks.

SaharaReporters obtained the Special Investigator’s report on the probe of Emefiele which uncovered the alarming sums of public funds which went into the fraudulent acquisition of the banks under Emefiele and AMCON under Kuru's leadership.

SaharaReporters on January 10 reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) dissolved the board and management of Titan Trust Bank, Union Bank, Polaris Bank and Keystone Bank.

This followed a report submitted to President Bola Tinubu by the Special Investigator on the Central Bank of Nigeria and Related Entities, Jim Obazee.

it was reported that the decision to dissolve the boards was taken after a meeting between the CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso, Obazee and the boards of the four banks including Titan Trust Bank’s investors who had earlier avoided meeting with the Special Investigator.

SaharaReporters reported in December 2023 that the office of the Special Investigator had insisted that the Chairman of Titan Trust Bank (TTB), Mr Tunde Lemo, Mr Cornelius Vink and Rahul Savara must appear before it over the acquisition of the Union Bank of Nigeria.

Meanwhile, on Monday, SaharaReporters learnt that Obazee’s investigation uncovered a scheme by Emefiele (CBN) and Ahmed Kuru (AMCON) that placed N20 billion investment in Heritage Bank sometime in 2017 upon which the bank granted a loan of N25 billion to the Sigma Golf Consortium of Emefiele, Kuru, Abu Funtua, Asega Alega with Umaru Modibbo (as front) to acquire Keystone Bank.

Investigations by the special investigator exposed how the N25 billion government fund was roundtripped from Heritage Bank to Access Bank and ended in GTBank, where it was purportedly transferred to AMCON/CBN as payment for the acquisition of Keystone Bank by the Riverbank Sigma Golf Consortium.

It was learnt that in an unusual and unpredictable turn of events, the Presidential and CBN directive to sack the Boards of Union, Keystone, and Polaris Banks, took the Riverbank Signa Golf Consortium by surprise.

Independent financial investigations revealed that Ahmed Kuru threw all others under the bus to save his neck by blackmailing all government officials who had benefitted from his generosity through the sharing of Ikoyi and Abuja properties.

A forensic observer noted that the special investigator's report that did not indict Kuru raised concerns over whether it was deliberate as a result of a bargain.

“President Bola Tinubu is under pressure from some political associates, whom Kuru has soiled their white robes including the Hon Femi Gbajabiamila (President’s Chief of Staff), who has benefitted from Ahmed Kuru’s largesse of Ikoyi properties from his days as Speaker of the House of Representatives,” a source in the Aso Rock said.

The source noted that “Gbaja had persistently blocked Ahmed Kuru’s removal as AMCON’s Chief Executive after about 9 years in office, over two terms of a democratically elected President.”

An independent investigator sharing an opinion indicated that “It is clear that the only organ of government that has resources for criminal and forensic investigation of economic and financial crimes is the EFCC. The Jim Obazee Special Investigating team has only managed to point to areas of infractions but has not succeeded in forensic tracing and following of the money. It can only be strategic that the government hand all the cases over to the EFCC, remove Ahmed Kuru from office and switch around a few Directors in the Central Bank who without doubt may be complicit with Godwin Emefiele in this criminal conduct.

“Otherwise, with those actors in positions, they will continue to obstruct the investigation. You can see the limitations of the Presidential Special Investigators in the CBN establishment. Otherwise, Yemi Cardoso (incumbent CBN Governor) will remain in an invisible walled hostage environment of Emefiele's network in the CBN, as Gbaja has surrounded the President with whispers of half-truths.”

Efforts to reach Gbajabiamila and Kuru failed as they did not answer their calls or reply to the text messages sent to their mobile line.


https://saharareporters.com/2024/01/23/exclusive-tinubu-under-pressure-chief-staff-gbajabiamila-indicted-corruption-probe-ex

The Special Investigator, Jim Obazee’s report, exposed how Gbajabiamila benefitted from Ahmed Kuru’s “largesse of Ikoyi properties from his days as Speaker of the House of Representatives,” according to top sources in the presidency.

One of the sources told SaharaReporters that Gbajabiamila in return had ensured Kuru remained as AMCON’s Chief Executive after about nine years.

Does Gbajabiamila have the power to retain somebody in a position
It doesn't add up.

kk

Antoeni:
Nobody is under pressure, they know what to do if they find him guilty. The only person under pressure are the people reading the post thinking something will happen. Lol

^^^

cenaman:
Tinubu na drug baron

So what can you do about it?

Emilokan Asiwaju Tinubu Jagaban can sack anybody without blinking an eye. He is just not interested in jailing anybody. He wants the looted money, not putting people in prison.

You people do not understand Tinubu. I will give you a brief reminder.

In 2015, Tinubu nominated a Christian for Buhari as Secretary to the Government of the Federation so that the guy can build political friendship across the North. When the first SGF used millions s to cut grasses and was sacked by Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Buhari's orders, Tinubu nominated another Christian from the same North East as the new SGF. Tinubu did this to place the Christians in a position to gather friends across the core North because Tinubu wanted to use SGF as his Vice President.

However, the two guys were not able to form political alliance across the core North. So, they were weak politically, therefore Tinubu tried Yakubu Dogara despite being in PDP, you will recall that Dogara was everywhere with Tinubu during the build up to the party Primary and after the Primary, but Dogara too was not big enough to gather votes across the core North, so Tinubu had to settle for the Kanuri Wonder Boy Shettima.

Now, coming to present day, you will recall that Tinubu recently appointed Muri Okunola the then Lagos State Head of Service as his (Tinubu) Private Secretary, that was Babatunde Raji Fashola's first position to Tinubu before he was moved to Chief of Staff when Tinubu was governor. So, Muri Okunola is learning the ropes of Chief of Staff. If Gbajabiamila becomes too stained, Tinubu will send him aboard as Ambassador and move Muri Okunola up as CoS.

Tinubu plans for decades ahead, not just few years ahead.

atiku4President:
Which kind of indictment is that one? Only a court of competent jurisdiction over the matter can adequately dispense the matter and appropriate sanctions

what is good for Better Edun is good for gbaja, so carry your nonsense Judiciary commot here, Judiciary needed to be disbanded in this country and restructure

Whatisurproblem:
what is good for Better Edun is good for gbaja, so carry your nonsense Judiciary commot here, Judiciary needed to be disbanded in this country and restructure

You can go and hug transformer. Supreme court must hear his case

He got properties for free (from people that literally got a whole bank for zero naira, zero kobo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV7n-DYFMww

From the Way Things Are Going, Tinubu Government Will Emerge As The Most Corrupt Government in History of Africa

Antoeni:
From the Way Things Are Going, Tinubu Government Will Emerge As The Most Corrupt Government in History of Africa

Clap for yourself, then go and continue wailing

Chai,, Who will Wike now cook soup for?