Chief Olabode George, denied
ever receiving N100 million from former Minister of Finance (State), Mr Bashir
Yuguda.
The Ex-Deputy National
Chairman of Peoples Demcoratic Party, PDP Olabode 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.”
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