Former governor of Plateau state, Joshua Dariye has said that N100 million from the misappropriated N1.126 billion went into the campaign for the re-election of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Obasanjo was re-elected in 2003.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in 2007, had charged Dariye, who was governor from 1999 to 2007, over allegations of diverting N1.126 billion from the Plateau government’s ecological fund.
In 2018, a federal capital territory (FCT) high court, sentenced Dariye to 14 years imprisonment.
But a court of appeal in Abuja reduced the sentence to 10 years.
The supreme court also affirmed the conviction and the jail term of the appeal court in March 2021.
Speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight on Monday, Dariye gave a breakdown of how the money was spent
According to him, a larger part of the money went into the state government account, and only N80 million went to the ecological fund.
He said, “N800 million went to the Plateau state account, 100 million went to PDP south-west and another 100 million went to the Obasanjo campaign organisation, N80 million went to the ecological fund and then N66 million went to PDP Plateau state.
“What was missing was about N4 million which is the commission of turnover.”
