Posted on: 03:24 Wed, 16 Dec 2015



A former Governor of Rivers State,
Dr. Peter Odili, on Tuesday said he
got N100million from the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) for the
contact and mobilization in the
South-South for 2015 elections.

The ex-governor said he did not
collect any money from a former
Minister of State for Finance, Amb.
Bashir Yuguda.

He also said he has never had any
dealing with a former National
Security Adviser, Mr. Sambo Dasuki.
Odili, who made the clarifications in
a statement in Abuja, said the
N100million was given to him at the
residence of the former National
Chairman of PDP, Alh. Adamu
Muazu.

He said: “My attention has been
drawn to some publications where a
former Minister of State (Finance),
Mr. Bashir Yuguda was quoted to
have said that he allegedly gave me
the sum of N100 million, out of the
money he purportedly collected from
the former National Security
Adviser. And I wish to state as
follows:

” I decided to personally sign this
rebuttal because over the years, I
had ignored various spurious and
patently false reports against me
because I Knew that at the fullness of
time, the truth would surely prevail.

” I would have similarly ignored this
recent falsehood attributed to Mr.
Yuguda but for the fact that the
uninformed are beginning to latch
on this long – held false and
tendentious narrative, hence my
decision to rebut this with all
vehemence.

” I categorically state with all sense
of responsibility that I have never
had any dealings, private or business
or official, with the former National
Security Adviser, so the issue of
allegedly collecting N100 million
from either the former NSA or Mr.
Yuguda does not arise.

“That as part of preparations
towards the 2015 elections, the PDP
set up contact and mobilisation
committees across the six geo –
political zones and I was appointed
the Chairman of the South – South
mobilisation committee.

” Consequent upon this, the party,
not the former NSA or Yuguda gave
the South -South Committee through
me, the sum of N100 million along
with other zonal Chairmen, in the
house of the National Chairman, Dr.
Adamu Muazu, for the assignment.”

The ex-governor said he wrote a
report to the leader of the party on
how the N100million was disbursed.
Odili said he has evidence of minutes
of all the meetings, signatures of all
the members and the report of the
zonal committee.

Source: TheNation