Chief Tony Anenih, a former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), states that the N260 million transferred to him by the office of the former national security adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, was on the instruction of the former president Goodluck Jonathan.
According to TheSun, Anenih wrote to a letter to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), explaining the origin and the designation of the money.
He mentioned that the N260 million paid to him by the NSA’s office was a refund of part of the N440 million he used to execute assignments at the request by the former Nigeria’s president.
If confirmed, it means that Goodluck Jonathan was yet to pay an outstanding N180 million owed to Anenih.
A source at the EFCC also revealed that Anenih claimed that though the refund of N260 million was made through the office of the ex NSA, Dasuki, the chief did not give his account numbers to anyone. However, Anenih confirmed that he provided his account details to Jonathan on request for a refund of the money spent on the 2015 campaign.
The ex PDP chief noted he was not in a position to ask the PDP’s hopeful in the presidential race how he was going to source the fund, or through which office the refund was going to be made.
Chief Anenih further named some beneficiaries of his personal money:
N25 million – Alhaji Mukhtar Shagari, to the former deputy governor of Sokoto state;
N35 million – a delegation of local government leaders from Katsina state;
N63 million – a northern group led by elder statesman AlhajiTankoYakassai;
N100 million – Chief Olu Falae, the national chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP);
N100 million – Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, the leader of Accord Party.
In conclusion, Anenih wrote he knew nothing about the money related to arms contract deals. He informed the anti-graft agency that he had made “personal sacrifices” to ensure that the candidate of his party won by accepting to use his personal money to pick some campaign bills. The ex PDP chief regretted that he could not recover all the money spent till present.
The EFCC is currently probing the $2.1 billion arms contract scandal involving the ex-NSA boss, Dasuki. Some prominent politicians, PDP leaders and members of the immediate past administration were named as the beneficiaries of the money.
Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) is alleged to have shared the money meant for the purchase of arms to fight the Boko Haram insurgency to finance the campaign and boost the re-election chances of Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28, 2015, general election.
There are indications that four more prominent Nigerians are to be questioned by the anti-graft agency soon.
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