Corruption Demonizes Atiku - El-Rufai Tears Former VP To Shred As Both Fights Dirty Over 2019

The Punch Newspaper - Barely 24 hours after former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar absolved himself of complicity in the Halliburton scandal, Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has said that Atiku is being haunted by the demons of corruption.

 El-Rufai said Atiku was culpable in the Halliburton scandal that consumed American congressman, William Jefferson, who bagged a jail term in the United States of America.

In a statement he personally signed, el-Rufai, who dared Atiku to visit the United States of America if he was not culpable in the wiring of $40m to the US, implied that the former vice-president could not visit the US as a result of the scandal.

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The statement entitled, “Atiku haunted by his corrupt demons,” urged Atiku to come clean with the findings of the report of the United States’ Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations which detailed the wire transfers involving the $40m from offshore companies.

El-Rufai alleged that the offshore companies wired funds into accounts controlled by Atiku and one of his wives.

Accusing the former vice-president of being obsessed with the ambition of becoming the President of Nigeria, the governor said the chieftain of the Atiku was fond of spewing out lies in an attempt to “rejuvenate his image”.

He said Atiku’s vaunting ambition made him (Atiku) support a particular group during the leadership struggle within the National Assembly, stressing that the action was disrespect for the wish of President Muhammadu Buhari.

 El-Rufai said, “This statement is issued in response to the latest falsehoods emerging from Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. He has a record of spewing outright lies and innuendos against my person. As we struggle to build a law-abiding society and secure progressive outcomes for our people, we cannot allow the triumph on these shores of those who will have us move to a post-factual world.

 “Not even from a man as practised as Alhaji Atiku is in the dark arts of damaging other people through a campaign of lies from him and his media machine. Therefore, I am constrained to provide a response to the fake news and irresponsible revision of recent history by Alhaji Atiku.

“The report detailing the US Senate findings is online. Alhaji Atiku should tell a better tale of why he is avoiding the United States of America.

“I never had anything to do with the incorporation of Transcorp. Those that established that company like Festus Odimegwu, Tony Elumelu, Otunba Lawal Solarin and Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke are still around and alive. As such, I could not have, and did not offer Alhaji Atiku any shares in Transcorp. I declined the shares that were offered me. Having done that, how could I have offered anyone shares?”

In an interview Atiku granted to a quarterly magazine published by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Zero Tolerance, the former vice-president accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of scheming to make himself life president.

Atiku also said that the pioneer Chairman of the EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, had apologised to him for accusing him of corruption, stressing that Obasanjo and his aides decided to tag him as a corrupt person because he foiled the life presidency bid of Obasanjo.

He said, “Did he give any evidence or prove where I was corrupt? Again, this is the same el-Rufai whom I was instrumental in bringing into government and making him Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, and eventually a minister.

“So, where is the evidence of corruption? It’s just not fair for you to say somebody is corrupt without substantiation. This is the same el-Rufai who testified on TV that he worked with me as DG of BPE for four years and there was never a time I asked him or instructed him to do anything unethical in those years.

“So, how am I a corrupt person? This is the same el-Rufai and others who incorporated Transcorp during my time as Vice-President and offered me shares and I declined. I wrote them officially to say it was unethical of me to accept those offers. So, where is the corruption toga coming from?”

When contacted, the Director, Atiku Media Office, Paul Ibe, said he had seen Nasir el-Rufai’s statement and that the office was preparing a response.

“We are preparing a response,” he said.

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At Last, Buhari's Wife Sues Noisemaker Gov. Fayose Over Halliburton Scandal

More trouble has beclouded the whistleblower governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose as the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has sued him for alleging that she was one of those indicted for involvement in the Halliburton multi-million dollar scandal, Punch Newspaper reports this morning

Earlier, Aisha Buhari had on many occasions denied involvement in the scam with a threat to sue Fayose if he did not stop dragging her into a fraud she knew nothing about.

Bother Nuhu Ribadu and Ibrahim Lamorde, two former Chairmen of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, had also declared that Aisha was not one of the Nigerian mentioned in the scam or indicted for the scandal.

The EFCC investigated the scam during Lamorde’s tenure as the anti-graft boss.

But in spite of these, Fayose had insisted that the President’s wife was involved in the fraud in which Nigeria lost huge sums of money, alleging that the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war was selective and politically-motivated.

 The governor claimed that Aisha Buhari was named in a document that stated she was one of those indicted in the celebrated scandal.

However, a Nigerian online medium, Premium Times reported on Wednesday night that Mrs. Buhari had dragged Fayose to court for maligning her name.

Premium Times stated that it had exclusively obtained the court summons, dated July 20, 2016, that Aisha filed against the governor.

When our correspondent contacted Fayose’s lawyer, Mr. Mike Ozekhome (SAN), on Wednesday night to confirm whether his client had been served the summons or not, his telephone number had been switched off.

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Fayose's 'Revelation' On Buhari's Wife Halliburton Bribery Scandal: US Govt. Opens Up

Apparently in response to the outburst of lousy Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose stating that President Muhammadu Buhari's wife, Aisha Buhari was wanted in the US and was avoiding travelling to the country Over link to the scandalous Halliburton bribe, the United States government says it has no information on the alleged crimes committed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife.

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, had, last month, alleged that Mrs. Buhari was involved in the $185m Halliburton scandal.

While reacting to the freezing of his Zenith Bank accounts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Fayose claimed that the wife of the President was a wanted person in the US.

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He had said, “Even the President cannot claim to be an angel. The estate he built in Abuja is known to us. His wife was indicted in the Halliburton scandal. 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 serialise the judgment for people to see and read.”

Fayose repeated the claim in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi. He said Aisha refused to travel with the President to the US because of her involvement in the scandal

The acting Public Affairs Officer, US Consulate General, Lagos, Frank Sellin, said this in an email sent to our correspondent on Tuesday.

But the acting Public Affairs Officer, US Consulate General, Lagos, Frank Sellin, in an email sent to Punch Newspaper on Tuesday, exonerated Aisha Buhari in the bribery saga.

Sellin According to Punch Newspaper, Sellin said in the e-mail that  “Thank you for the inquiry.  We have no information to provide on this matter.”

Before now, a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Nuhu Ribadu had also exonerated the President's wife of any complexity in the Halliburton bribe saga.

Ribadu said; the Aisha Buhari mentioned in the bribery scandal of a former United States congressman, William Jefferson, was an impostor who was peddling influence with the name of President Muhammadu Buhari, a former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has told PREMIUM TIMES.

Mr. Ribadu narrated how the EFCC during his tenure, in conjunction with U.S. authorities, almost arrested the impostor.

“She is a different person and has lived in the U.S. for years. She is hardly in Nigeria. The EFCC was working with U.S. authorities on the investigations. One of my plans was to arrest her before I left the commission. Our suspicion then was that she was using the Buhari name for influence.

“The EFCC laid ambush to see if she would come into the country so she could be arrested. I didn’t know what happened to the plan to arrest her after I left,” he said.

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Fayose In Fresh Problem As Aisha Buhari Heads To Court Over Link To Halliburton Scandal

President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha Buhari, on Wednesday threatened to take legal action against Governor Ayodele Fayose if he fails to retract his allegations against her.

The wife of the President, in a warning letter dispatched through her legal representatives, said Fayose’s allegation

gave birth to the “very wild and unfounded” allegations in the media, that she was the Mrs. Buhari, allegedly mentioned as having transferred funds to a convicted former United States (U.S.) lawmaker, Williams Jefferson involved in the Halliburton scandal.

In the letter titled: “Demand for unqualified retraction of the false statement published by you in various media on the 20th of June, 2016, and subsequent dates regarding our client, Her Excellency, Mrs. Aisha Buhari the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR,” Aisha said she is giving Fayose five working days to retract the statement or face legal action.

Meanwhile, the passport of one Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari who leaves in the U.S. is being widely circulated on the internet as the person Fayose is mistaken to be the wife of the President.

The letter to Fayose reads in part: “Specifically, in the said statement credited to you and signed by your Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, you, inter alia, false stated as follows:

“”Even the president cannot claim to be an angel. The estate he built in Abuja is known to us. His wife was indicted over the Halliburton Scandal (sic). When that American, Jeferson, 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 serialise the judgement for people to see and read,” Ismaila Alasa and Mary Ekpene, who signed the letter on behalf of the law firm, said.

“Take notice that unless you and your agents meet our humble demands within 5 (five) working days of the receipt of this letter, we shall take all necessary steps within the contemplation of the law to seek redress for our client.”

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Aisha Buhari & Halliburton Bribery Scandal: Ribadu Reveals Top Secrets, More Facts

Premium Times - The Aisha Buhari mentioned in the bribery scandal of a former United States congressman, William Jefferson, was an impostor who was peddling influence with the name of President Muhammadu Buhari, a former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has told PREMIUM TIMES.

Mr. Ribadu narrated how the EFCC during his tenure, in conjunction with U.S. authorities, almost arrested the impostor.

“She is a different person and has lived in the U.S. for years. She is hardly in Nigeria. The EFCC was working with U.S. authorities on the investigations. One of my plans was to arrest her before I left the commission. Our suspicion then was that she was using the Buhari name for influence.

“The EFCC laid ambush to see if she would come into the country so she could be arrested. I didn’t know what happened to the plan to arrest her after I left,” he said.

Mr. Ribadu however said if Nigerian authorities were still interested in the case it was easy to establish her real identity.

He said this should not be a problem for investigators because she recently renewed her passport at the Nigeria embassy in Washington and that they should still have a file on her.

Mr. Ribadu’s successor at the EFCC , Ibrahim Lamorde, had earlier told this newspaper the President Buhari’s wife was not the person mentioned in the scandal as alleged by the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose.

Mr. Fayose had distributed a link to the U.S. Department of Justice Web site holding court documents where a certain 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, Mr. 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. 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.”

But Mr. Lamorde told PREMIUM TIMES that the Aisha Buhari in the Jefferson bribery scandal was not the President’s wife.

“I can tell you authoritatively that the Aisha Buhari named in that case is not President Buhari’s wife. It is another Aisha Buhari entirely,” Mr. Lamorde said.

“I was the director of operations at the EFCC at the time so I know about the case very well. I can tell you that it is not her (President Buhari’s wife). That much we established.”

FAYOSE An Unchained Mad Dog - Furious Aisha Buhari Blasts

Apparently in reaction to her  alleged false link to Williams Jefferson Halliburton bribery scandal by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has reportedly described Fayose as an unchained mad dog, who is only out to rubbish President Buhari’s efforts.

The President's wife reportedly vented her anger at the Ekiti State governor via her her verified twitter handle @aishambuhari. 

The tweet reportedly read; “Enough is enough. Fayose is an unchained mad dog. If Buhari is 73 years old, I Aisha am 45 years old, I have more than enough energy to face you.”

The presidency is yet to verify this tweet currently making the round on the social media.

However, checks by News Punch on the twitter handle Wednesday morning showed that the tweet is no longer there.

The last time she tweeted was on June 20.

Yesterday, the Presidency also reacted to Fayose's outburst, describing him as  Childishly Obsessed With Incurable Boorish Instincts