Money Laundering: Obanikoro Tells Court N1.2bn Was Airlifted From Lagos for Fayose
A former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, told Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that N1.219 billion was airlifted to the former Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose. Obanikoro stated the reason for the airlifting of N1.219 billion in cash from drom Lagos was for the purpose of Fayose’s governorship election in the state and the inability of the defunct Diamond bank in Ekiti to disburse such an amount. This was disclosed in a lengthy post on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s X handle on Wednesday, November 30. The post reads: “When prosecution counsel, Wahab Shittu, SAN, asked him to shed light on the source of the said N1.219billion, Obanikoro replied that he did not know the source of the money and that he only got the information on the money from the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd). He explained that it was the former NSA that contacted him that the said money had been paid into the acc...