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Katsina Visit: Alake Gets Governor Lawal’s $5m to broker meeting with President Tinubu, Issue Mining Licenses


New information suggests that Zamfara Governor Dauda Lawal gave Mining Minister Dele Alake $5 million. This payment was allegedly for arranging a meeting between the governor and President Bola Tinubu during the president’s visit to Katsina.

The President is on a two-day visit to Katsina, during which he will assess the security situation in the state, commission key projects, and attend an event organized by the Katsina state governor, Dikko Umar Radda.

Alake allegedly received the funds from Governor Lawal to facilitate a meeting with President Tinubu for the Zamafara State Governor to discuss his defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC), which recently received several high-profile defectors from other political parties.

A credible source in the Government House, Gusau, revealed that “the $5 million payout also covers 15 mining licences that the Minister negotiated with His Excellency (Lawal) during his last visit to the northwest geo-political zone.”

The source said both men have remained closely in touch and that Alake has repeatedly acted to convince Governor Lawal that he can be trusted. He held a press conference in March this year to defend the lifting of the ban on mining in Zamfara state, claiming that this was because the security situation in the bandits-plagued state had improved.

“We have developed a standard operating procedure for mining in Zamfara, given the unique challenges the state faced previously. This SOP serves as a code for anyone looking to explore or operate in the region,” Alake had stated during the press briefing, which the source now said was held as proof that the Minister will fulfil the deal to hand the 15 mining licences to Governor Lawal.

Another source in the Presidency, who does not want to be named because he is not a designated spokesperson, disclosed that Alake has been frantically pressuring President Tinubu’s close aides to schedule Governor Lawal for a private meeting with the President in Katsina State.

“He has been pressuring them that there is a need to sustain ‘Hurricane Tinubu’ and that he has the Zamfara State Governor on board to cross over to the APC, but that it was important for Governor Dauda (Lawal) to use the Katsina visit as an opportunity to meet the President and finalise plans for his crossing.

“What I don’t know is whether the Minister, Mr. Alake, can pull the meeting off, especially since it became strategically imperative that the gale of defections is better managed after the outcry from the civil society following the defections in Delta state,” he said.


https://corruptionreporter.com/2025/05/02/katsina-visit-alake-gets-governor-lawals-5m-to-broker-meeting-with-president-tinubu-issue-mining-licenses/

Wonderful. One has to pay in dollars to the cabal around the president just to have them broker a meeting with him... classic example of how drug cartels operate.

Difficult to believe. Every Nigerian Governor has direct and even private access to the President. No need for a seating Governor to pay that much to ordinary minister for access to the President. Even Fubara that was suspended has private access to meet the president in London without powerful Minister wike's knowledge l

This media needs to be closed permanently

sholatech:
Difficult to believe. Every Nigerian Governor has direct and even private access to the President. No need for a seating Governor to pay that much to ordinary minister for access to the President. Even Fubara that was suspended has private access to meet the president in London without powerful Minister wike's knowledge l

You see that the writer of the senseless report needs to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned?

You guys can lie......
A sitting governor paying an ordinary inconsequential minister to schedule a meeting with the president?

Haba! Make una fear God small now

You will just put yourself in problems all in the name of politics... even if you don't love yourself consider your children, wife and your parents.

Let put our hope in Christ Jesus because it is only through his death and resurrection that an individual is saved from the coming wrath of God upon sinners. Please don't be caught unaware.
The coming of Christ Jesus is nearer than ever.
Jesus Christ is alive. He stands at the door of your heart knocking to come in.

You think Alake is a joke to you? Not every minister have that level. And not all governors could meet the president easily especially those against their policies. Remember Benue state and Rivers state during Buhari.

JibrinAm:
You guys can lie......
A sitting governor paying an ordinary inconsequential minister to schedule a meeting with the president?

Haba! Make una fear God small now

JibrinAm:
You guys can lie......
A sitting governor paying an ordinary inconsequential minister to schedule a meeting with the president?

Haba! Make una fear God small now

Whether the story is true or false, there is nothing ordinary or inconsequential about a serving minister. The position commands honour and respect.

Hehehe 😂 $5,000,000.00 of our common wealth just to see the presidents ugly face

Nigerians, una mumu never do?

BondRiv:
Whether the story is true or false, there is nothing ordinary or inconsequential about a serving minister. The position commands honour and respect.

So the five million dollar bribe (over N7.5 Billion) to look at oga mandate stealers face is inconsequential to you? 🤡 It's the 'ORDINARY MINISTER' title that is your own headache

Typical APC e-rodent reasoning faculty

SeeWahala:
So the five million dollar bribe (over N7.5 Billion) to look at oga mandate stealers face is inconsequential to you? 🤡 It's the 'ORDINARY MINISTER' title that is your own headache

Typical APC e-rodent reasoning faculty

It is always the uncouth loudmouths trying to be sanctimonious. You have briefly escaped from the psychiatric ward where you were receiving treatment to start calling names and reaching hasty conclusions on allegations. I am at liberty to decide how I want to engage, be it the topic or correcting some erroneous comments on it. Obviously, any reasonable person like me, who means well for this country is against corruption. It is not something that needs to be sung at every interval. I don't have to prove anything to hypocritical and unpatriotic elements.

If you believe this, just get to know your logical reasoning is in shambles

Anything is possible in Nigeria.
Most nigeria politicians are corrupt