FAYOSE EXPOSES PRESIDENT BUHARI’S WIFE’S ALLEGED ROLE IN JEFFERSON BRIBERY SCANDAL - EazyFeeds

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Tuesday 21 June 2016

FAYOSE EXPOSES PRESIDENT BUHARI’S WIFE’S ALLEGED ROLE IN JEFFERSON BRIBERY SCANDAL

The EKITI STATE GOVERNOR, AYODELE FAYOSE, on Monday indicted the wife of the president Mrs. Aisha BUHARI , in the messy bribery scandal involving U.S. Congressman, Williams Jefferson.  Mr. Fayose distributed a link to the U.S. Department of Justice Web site holding court documents where Mrs. AISHA Buhari was alleged to have transferred suspicious funds to a convicted former American congressman, Williams Jefferson.


In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Mr. Fayose said President Buhari is the most corrupt president in Africa. “Even the President cannot claim to be an angel,” the governor reveals that president Buhari owns a multi billion Naira estate situated at Abuja. Fayose authoritatively stated that the wife of the president was indicted over the Halliburton Scandal (sic). When that American, Jefferson, was being sentenced, the President’s wife was mentioned as having wired $170,000 to Jefferson. Her name was on page 25 of the sentencing of Jefferson. We can serialize the judgment for people to see and read.”

The governor’s Special Assistant on New Media, Lere Olayinka, later circulated links to and copies of the court document detailing Mrs Buhari’s mention in the scandal. The revealed documents showed that in some of the exhibits tendered in convicting Mr. Jefferson of bribery, Mrs. Buhari was mentioned as transferring $170,000 to the American politician using a firm as proxy. “Government Exhibits 36-87 (6/26/02 $170,000 wire transfer from account in Nigeria in the name of Aisha Buhari to an account in the name of The ANJ Group, LLC, identifying “William Jefferson” as Beneficiary),” the U.S. Government Sentencing Memorandum said on page 22. We tried to reach Mrs. Buhari for comments but call and sms sent to her mobile phone was not returned at press time. Also Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, declined comments as well, saying he would need to check the documents himself before issuing an official statement.

Mr. Fayose’s Revelation stated how Mr. Jefferson, between 2000 and 2005, used his position as member of the U.S. House of Representatives to offer illegal services to private companies for cash rewards. Mr. Jefferson and his family, according to U.S. authorities, received about $367,500 through his firm, ANJ Group, for services rendered to iGate, an American broadband technology provider. An indigenous firm, Netlink Digital Television, had signed a joint venture with iGate to set up digital satellite TV and broadband Internet services in the country. NDTV was owned by Oyewole Fasawe, a PDP chieftain at the time.  Mr. Jefferson was contracted to help promote iGate and NDTV partnership in Nigeria. Following a lengthy trial, Mr. Jefferson was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Although Mr. Fasawe was arrested in 2005 by the EFCC, he was never convicted. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar were also said to be a person of interest in the allegations.
       
A final report released by the EFCC on June 22, 2006 about the bribery scandal also contained Mrs. Buhari’s Citizens Bank account statements and how she transferred funds to Mr. Jefferson.  A 2007 New York Times’ article detailed how Mrs. Buhari told an acquaintance in Washington that she was a daughter of a former Nigerian head of state and a friend of Mr. Jefferson. “As the pair struck up a conversation and subsequently became friends, Mr. Assiba, then a security guard, said she told him that her father was the former military ruler of Nigeria, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and that her American friends included politicians like Mr. Jefferson of Louisiana.”This is to prove to the whole world that Aisha and Buhari are not clean, but only uses state power in silencing  members of the opposition parties and perceived enemies.

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