The former junior Minister of Defence, Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro has fingered Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose in the armsgate scandal, revealing shocking details.
Mr. Obanikoro, who is now singing in EFCC net, revealed that he gave Governor Fayose N2.23 billion out of the N4.745 billion he is being accused of.
He was accompanied by his lawyer, Mr James Onoja (SAN) when he appeared before EFCC investigators.
He said that he handed over $5,377,000 in cash and N1.3 billion to Fayose which was received by the governor’s associate, Mr Abiodun Agbele.
He also admitted that the N1.3 billion was flown to Akure airport in two chartered flights for delivery to Agbele.
Obanikoro was detained after he surrendered himself to the EFCC, haven flown down from faraway United State of America to do that.
The said sum was wired to a company named Sylva Mcnamara Limited believably linked to him by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).
He has, however, denied ownership of Sylva McNamara, the company that was used to transfer the funds to Governor Fayose.
The money in question was wired within a period of seven months in 2014, a feat Obanikoro revealed was transferred to Fayose out of the slush funds.
Defending why the money was remitted to Mcnamara, he said that it was to ward off of a plot by Boko Haram to attack Lagos.
He decided to open up when confronted with a petition from ONSA which was dated November 28, 2015 that was titled: “Payment to companies with no contract awards or approval.”
He said he discovered that Sylva Mcnamara was No. 78 on the list of firms being investigated having “collected the aggregate sum of N4,685,000,000 between April 4, 2014 and November 13, 2014.
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