PDP dares EFCC to Name N750m bribe takers

 

The Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has vowed to defend the corruption allegation against him.

Also, the national leadership of the PDP has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to be diligent in the party’s investigation of the allegation that some members of its National Working Committee collected a whopping N750m bribe from Mr. Ndudi Elumelu.

Elumelu, a PDP governorship aspirant in Delta State, had alleged that the money was collected from him with a promise that he would be given the party’s governorship ticket in the state.

But speaking on the matter, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, said the EFCC must be able to unravel those who collected the money.

He said, “If any member of this party participated in the issue, let the law take its course. Let the EFCC charge those involved to court. We will not tolerate anyone who is corrupt. Monies were paid into an account at least with what I have read in some newspapers."

“That is a concrete evidence. Let the EFCC use that to trace how the money was disbursed. The law enforcement should act on this.”

Festus Keyamo

Also, Fani-Kayode, while reacting to allegation made by a Lagos lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, that the former minister was not qualified to be in the President Jonathan Goodluck’s campaign team because of the fraud case, said he was ready to prove his innocence in the graft suit.

Kayode is currently being prosecuted by the EFCC for alleged corruption while in office.

Keyamo, who is the prosecutor in the matter, said with Fani-Kayode’s appointment, President Jonathan had shown that he was not interested in fighting corruption.

He, therefore, asked Nigerians to reject Jonathan during the February 14 presidential election.

But in his reaction in Abuja on Monday, Fani-Kayode in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Sufuyan Ojeifo, said he was waiting for the next adjourned date of his trial to clear himself. ...Punch