FORMER Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Demcoratic Party, PDP, Chief
Olabode George, has denied collecting N100 million from former Minister
of Finance (State), Mr Bashir Yuguda, saying it is another blatant
falsehood, stripped of any iota of truth.
George, who is also the Atona Oodua of Yorubaland, described the claim as “mischievous and deliberately fraudulent.”
The PDP leader, in a statement said: “My attention has been drawn to
another mischievous and deliberately fraudulent claim that I collected
N100 million from Bashir Yuguda, the former Minister of State for
Finance. This is another blatant falsehood, stripped of any iota of
truth. This is yet again a depraved continuation of lynch mob journalism
orchestrated by an online newspaper.”
In an effort to set the records straight, he said: “The salient fact
is that very early this year, long before the election period, the party
set up Contact and Mobilization Commttee for each zone to reconcile
various factions and ensure a firm unity of purpose within the zones
before the election. I was elected as the Chairman for the South-West
zone.
“The committee which was made up of 18 senior members of the party
with distinguished history of honour and exemplary leadership, met at
least 10 times in my office in Lagos. These people travelled all the way
from every corner of the South-West, with three members representing
each state. All of them are very much alive to testify to my assertions.
Sometime in the middle of these deliberations, Yuguda came to me and
said the party was reimbursing the 18 elders of the committee for their
transportation, accommodation and feeding allowance for the work that
was done.
“The committee later submitted the report of its deliberations to the
party and then wound up. For all these efforts Yuguda gave the
committee only $30,000. That was less than N6 million at that time.
Yuguda can never claim that he gave the Committee N100 million. That is
the figment of the imagination of rascally scribblers purporting to be
journalists. Again, facts are sacred.”
Monday, December 14, 2015
Nigeria: I didn’t collect N100m from Yuguda — Bode George
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