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| Bode George |
According
to LIB, the Former Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Bode George has released a
press statement to clear himself from the ongoing arms deal scandal as he was
named by Bashir Yuguda to have collected 100 million Naira. Click to read the
press statement …
“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. The salient fact is that very early this
year, long before the election period, the party set up Contact and
Mobilization Committee 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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