The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has called on its members, who collected money from the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), to return it immediately.
The party said it didn’t ask any of its members to collect money on its behalf during the last general elections.
In a swift rebuttal on Wednesday, authorities of the Federal High Court of Nigeria (FHCN), dissociated the court from media reports it granted bail to the tune of N250 million to the embattled immediate-past National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (reted) and others being tried in relation to the $2.1 billion arms deal scandal.
Acting Chief Registrar of the FHCN, Emmanuel Garko, stated that authorities of the Court could not have granted bail to any of those being tried in relation to the arms deal because none of them was charged before the court.
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has denied ever receiving any money from former President Jonathan, Colonel Dasuki or any other member of President Jonathan’s government.
Reacting to an online publication that he received N1.7 billion cash from President Goodluck Jonathan, Fani-Kayode said “ this is false. A few hours later they changed their story and said that I received 1.7 billion naira from the office of the former NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki. This is also false.
In his submission on the president’s stance on the continued detention of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) and Nnamdi Kanu, Professor Itse Sagay, SAN argued that the Federal Government was not in violation of the rule of law as any bail granted an accused is completely related to the offence which he is charged before the court.
Buhari had in his first presidential media chat at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja, adduced reasons why the Federal Government would not readily allow both Dasuki and Kanu to regain their freedom from detention.
Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and some leading lawyers in the country have disagreed with the Presidential Committee on anti-corruption led by Professor Itse Sagay over President Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence that the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu who are facing separate criminal charges, would not be released from custody, despite valid court orders that granted them bail.
In his submission on the president’s stance, Professor Sagay argued that the Federal Government was not in violation of the rule of law as any bail granted an accused is completely related to the offence which he is charged before the court.
The lawyer to the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has appealed to the Nigerian government to allow the rule of law prevail in his trial.
Speaking to Channels TV in Abuja on the re-arrest of his client by officials of the Department of State Service shortly after he was released from Kuje Prisons, Dasuki’s lawyer, Mr Ahmed Raji, said his client deserved to enjoy the bail granted him by different courts.
The Department of the State Security Service (DSS) has refused to allow former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) to go home on bail, even after perfecting the third bail granted by an Abuja high court.
The DSS in a dramatic fashion on Tuesday night, took custody of Dasuki shortly after perfecting the third bail granted him by Justice Peter Affem after two other courts had done the same.
by: Niran Adedokun
Recently, I had the privilege of the company of one of the most accomplished Nigerians I know. Now approaching 80, the man told a story, which I crave your indulgence to share.
According to him, decades back, he was in a position to influence the businesses of a lot of contractors. One particular Christmas season, a contractor gifted him with an item made of gold. He took this gift with all joy and went home on holiday. On the day that the company resumed early the next year, he went into the office of his European superior and they shared stories of their individual experiences while on vacation.
A former governor of old Anambra State, Jim Nwobodo, has denied media reports that he collected the sum of N500million from the former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmed Muazu.
Many chieftains of the former ruling party were fingered in the sharing of slush funds allegedly distributed by a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki and a former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda.
A former governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, has denied receiving N100 million from either the immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, or former Minister of State Finance, Bashir Yuguda.
Mr. Yuguda had reportedly confessed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to giving Mr. Odili N100 million for election campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The former minister allegedly claimed he got the money from Mr. Dasuki for onward transfer to Mr. Odili.
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