Former Governors, Akpabio, Yari With Multi-Billion Naira Corruption Cases Meet Buhari Over Senate Presidency Ambition
As a minimum two broken-down governors who’re indicted in a single corruption case or the totally different, Godswill Akpabio and Abdulaziz Yari like visited President Muhammadu Buhari to canvass pork up for his or her senate presidency ambition.
Akpabio, who is the Senator-Elect for the Ikot-Ekpene Senatorial District said on Monday after meeting with Buhari at his reliable situation on the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, that he had knowledgeable him (Buhari) of his blueprint to be President of the 10th Senate.
SaharaReporters honest recently completely revealed a fable about how Senator Akpabio refused to honour an invite by the Economic and Monetary Crimes Commission on the excuse of unwell health.
Closing Friday, SaharaReporters moreover reported that the EFCC had re-invited Akpabio, broken-down Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, over allegations of abuse of region of enterprise and misappropriation of billions of Naira.
Talking after Buhari, he said, “I intend to carry a total lot of reforms into the Senate, within the style and manner we enact alternate, to again the following administration to prevail. We would be very thorough in doing all the pieces; we’ll result in loyalty to the Structure, we’ll result in loyalty to Nigerians.
“With the restiveness that we are seeing across the nation, we’ll enact our ultimate to originate factual guidelines and to again the administration to result in insurance policies that can empower the youths of the nation.”
The meeting become once held totally just a few hours after one other Senate presidential aspirant, Abdulaziz Yari, visited Buhari and entreated the governing All Progressives Congress to permit the North to assemble the following Senate helmsman having contributed immense votes to President-elect Bola Tinubu’s victory.
Meanwhile, SaharaReporters honest recently revealed how the Economic and Monetary Crimes Commision (EFCC) said the broken-down Zamfara Notify Governor, Yari, and others pilfered about N84.7billion of $2.2 billion supposed for the states.
Per Hayatu Ahmed, Chief Superintendent of the EFCC, on how Yari and others illegally shared N84.7billion, the EFCC reliable said, “We stumbled on out that there become once an agitation by 9 oil producing states on the depletion of the extra indecent yarn with out the charge of their 13 per cent derivation fund.
“This agitation become once tabled earlier than the post-mortem sub-committee of the Federal Fable Allocation Committee, FAAC. It become once additional revealed that the post-mortem sub-committee got right here up with a resolve of about $2.2billion as what become once due to those 9 states.
“This amount become once to be deducted over a 16 months duration, on a quarterly basis. 11.5 per cent of this resolve, which is same to N84.7 billion, become once build aside aside for the charge of some public officials to facilitate this charge.
“The 4th community, known as Yari community, acquired N17.15 billion. The entirety of the sum become once transferred to the yarn of Finex Skilled Products and services on the instruction of the representative of this community, Abdulaziz Yari, the broken-down governor of Zamfara Notify.”
