NGF accuses Malami of abandoning its role over $418m
NGF accuses Malami of abandoning its role over $418m
NGF accuses Malami of abandoning its role over $418m
The Nigerian Governors Forum on Sunday picked holes in the claim by a former member of the House of Representatives and consultant of Paris Club, Ned Nwoko, that he paid some money to facilitate governance in some states, including conducting elections in Ekiti and Ondo States.
The forum said it was a “desperate, spurious and futile advocacy” allegedly mounted and coordinated by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to justify the plundering of $418.9m from the public treasury of the states and local governments.
The NGF, in a statement by its Director (Media and Public Affairs),
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Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, said contrary to the claims by Nwoko, the Delta North candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 election, it had never received $100 million.
According to him, the salient facts on the fraud associated with the Paris Club refunds can never be changed by Malami or any of the consultants.
Bello-Barkindo said the facts would always remain whether the claims of the consultants were lawful and whether any judgment which is a subject of a pending appeal can be enforced or executed as the consultants now attempt to do.
He said, “The NGF, hereby, states unequivocally that it has not at any time been involved in or been in receipt of $100m or any other funds from Ned Nwoko to finance elections in any state.
NGF accuses Malami of abandoning its role over $418m
