Chief Bode George has denied receiving N100million from the former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda saying he got only $30, 000 (N5.9m) from him. He said this while reacting to Yuguda’s statement to EFCC that he gave a total of N600m cash to six chairmen of the Contact and Mobilisation Committee of the PDP for the 2015 general elections.
Those who allegedly benefitted included Chief Bode George (South-West); Amb. Yerima Abdullahi (North-East); Peter Odili (South-South); Attahiru Bafarawa (North-West); Jim Nwobodo (South -East); and Ahmadu Ali (North-Central).
While Bafarawa a former governor of Sokoto State, has since confessed to receiving N100m, George, who is currently in the United Kingdom, told one of our correspondents during a telephone interview on Sunday that only $30,000 cash was given to him as the head of the South-West committee.
He said the committee was not a mobilisation committee but an elders’ consultative committee set up to reconcile aggrieved party members ahead of the elections.
He said the three delegates that represented Lagos were George, a former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe; and a former Minister of Communications, Maj. Gen Tajudeen Olanrewaju (retd.). Other members of the committee were former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel; Senator Femi Kila (Ekiti); and a former National Vice Chairman, PDP South-West, Senator Yinka Omilani (Osun).
George added, “Yuguda gave me $30,000 to share among ourselves. Each person received $1,500 including myself.nWe held a series of meetings in Lagos and the money was used to settle hotel bills, transport and sittings. So, I don’t know what Yuguda is talking about. If the money that was given to us was stolen, how was I supposed to know?”
Punch
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