Since The DEFENDER Sunday’s report exposed how the polls shift last Saturday was not just logistics as explained by INEC but as a result of dollarised compromise of electoral Smart Card Readers by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, more media are now coming up with reports of more discoveries.
Atiku was said to have paid $1 million to each state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) to compromise the process with a view to handing him election victory against All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari.
Only on Monday the Nation published that Atiku and PDP were in fresh pot to now resort to bribing voters at $3 million per each state in same desperation to win election through back door.
National Front Group, led by former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, also Monday revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Atiku, PDP and some clerics worked in collaboration with INEC officials and some foreign observers to pre-write polls results but failed due to the postponement.
The latest, as reported by Sahara Reporters, is that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has just arrested Uyi Giwa Osagie, the lawyer and treasurer of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, for alleged money laundering.
Osagie was arrested on Monday following the arrest of Alhaji Abdullahi Usman, a notorious BDC owner based in Lagos, who was caught ferrying $2milion by air from Abuja to Lagos.
When the money was intercepted by EFCC, Usman, who owns Hasbunallahu BDC LTD, confessed that Uyi paid naira equivalent of $4million into his account. He converted it to $2million pieces and ferried to Lagos, and on arrival took it to Keystone Bank.
A source familiar with the matter said this was money Atiku was to use in settling all his party people ahead of the elections. After arresting Uyi, EFCC operatives searched his Ikoyi Reeve Road home and found documents linking him to Atiku. He was reportedly recalcitrant during the arrest, and is still in EFCC detention.
Also, presidency sources told SaharaReporters that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the election to allow Atiku get money from other sources.
EFCC spokeman Tony Orilade refused to confirm the arrest, telling SaharaReporters he could not make any statement on the issue until he had received clearance from the authorities.
