[NEWS 2019] 8 Politicians With N232 Billion Corruption Cases Working For Buhari’s Re-Election

Around eight out of the legislators working for the re-decision of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 2019 race have pending defilement cases worth N232bn as indicated by Punch Newspapers.

An ongoing report by Punch Newspapers demonstrated that the sum engaged with the different join
cases, which are at present pending before security organizations, particularly the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, extend from N223m to N100bn for every one of the lawmakers. A portion of the eight government officials, who used to be individuals from the Peoples Democratic Party and other resistance parties, had purportedly deserted to the decision All Progressives Congress to stop the dangling hatchet of the EFCC and other security offices from falling on them.

In particular, the lawmakers who are at present either under test or arraignment for supposedly occupying government stores have independently pledged to guarantee Buhari stays in control untill 2023. The eight lawmakers incorporate the congressperson speaking to Nasarawa West at the National Assembly, Abdullahi Adamu; the representative speaking to Sokoto North and previous Governor of Sokoto State, Aliyu Wamakko; ex-Senate Minority Leader and previous Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, who as of late surrendered from the PDP to the APC; and a previous Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu.

Others are the quick past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal; the previous Governor of Rivers State and Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organization in 2015, Rotimi Amaechi; the Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari; and previous National Chairman of the PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff.

Abdullahi Adamu (N15bn)

For example, Adamu, a serving representative and previous Governor of Nasarawa State, is one of the President's partners in the Senate. He is additionally an individual from the National Advisory Committee of the Buhari 2019 Presidential Support Committee.

The legislator is being arraigned nearby 18 others for purportedly taking N15bn from the treasury through contracts granted when he was senator for a long time.

His child, Nurianu, was likewise summoned by the EFCC in January 2018 for claimed N90m extortion. Be that as it may, the previous senator has been one of the fiercest commentators of Senate President Bukola Saraki.

As per Saraki, the previous representative has been offending him with a specific end goal to get a delicate landing.

Saraki had said in July, "I have purposely disregarded the jokes of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, particularly his consistent media assaults on me and the Senate since the EFCC cleaned his document on affirmed instance of debasement and furthermore proceeded to summon his child in court."

Aliyu Wamakko (N15bn)

Congressperson Aliyu Wamakko is responsible for Buhari's crusade in Sokoto State. Half a month back, he held a gigantic rally for the benefit of Buhari with a specific end goal to demonstrate to the President that Governor Aminu Tambuwal's absconding would be of no impact.

Wamakko, who filled in as senator from 2007 to 2015, is under scrutiny over charges of robbery of open assets and illegal tax avoidance totalling N15bn, an assertion he has passionately denied. Representative for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, had affirmed in April that the commission was examining charges contained in an appeal to against Wammako and that he would before long be welcome to protect the claims.

Godswill Akpabio (N100bn)

The previous legislative head of Akwa Ibom State has been under test by the EFCC for more than three years in view of assertions that he redirected over N100bn from the coffers of the state somewhere in the range of 2007 and 2015. Akpabio was invited into the APC by the President himself. The previous representative, who speaks to Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District, as of late pledged that the APC would assume control Akwa Ibom the manner in which Adolph Hitler attacked Poland. Akpabio, who on Friday headed out to China with the President is ostensibly the nearest turncoat to Buhari and has pledged to do everything conceivable to guarantee Buhari is re-chosen. Despite the fact that he has been flame broiled by the EFCC, he has not been charged.

Orji Uzor Kalu (N3.2bn)

Kalu, who represented Abia State from 1999 to 2007, was a standout amongst the most compelling legislators in the South-East amid his opportunity in government. In the wake of leaving the PDP, he framed the Progressive Peoples Alliance from where he challenged and lost a senatorial decision in 2015.

The next year, he deserted to the APC and has paid a few visits to the President from that point forward. As of late, he visited the President in the place where he grew up of Daura, Katsina State, where he was gave with the title, 'Dan Baiwan Hausa' by the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouq. As indicated by the emir, Kalu was gave with the title in valuation for his "steady help for our child, President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, Bayajida II ."

Be that as it may, the previous representative has been having a running fight in court with the EFCC since leaving office. The EFCC asserted that Kalu and the others conferred extortion between August 2001 and October 2005. It blamed Kalu for using his organization (Slok Nigeria Limited) to hold in the record of First Inland Bank, now First City Monument Bank, the total of N200m.

The commission said that the whole shaped piece of assets wrongfully got from the coffers of the Abia State government. The EFCC additionally said that the charged held, in various financial balances, about N2.5bn having a place with the state government, including that he redirected about N3.2bn from the coffers of a similar government.

Despite his travails, the previous senator has demanded that he will do all inside his capacity to guarantee that Buhari is re-chosen.

Babachir Lawal (N223m)

 The quick past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, was charged by the Senate specially appointed Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East, driven by Senator Shehu Sani, of granting a N223m consultancy contract for the evacuation of obtrusive plant species in Komadugu, Yobe Water Channels to his organization, Rholavision Engineering in negation of Section 43(iii) and (iv) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.

A panel headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in this manner researched Lawal and prescribed his expulsion in October 2017, a year after he was prosecuted by the Senate. Despite the fact that he is under test by the EFCC, Babachir is among the key figures running Buhari's re-race crusade in Adamawa State. He likewise uncovered amid an ongoing meeting on Channels Television that regardless he had guide access to the President. The previous SGF has been having an authority tussle with Governor Jibrilla Bindow over who should lead Buhari's crusade in the state.

Rotimi Amaechi (N97bn) 

Amaechi, who was the Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organization in 2015, has been accused of the undertaking of guaranteeing that Buhari is chosen a second time. The Minister of Transport, who is the substance of the Buhari battle, was prosecuted by the Justice George Omeregi-drove Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to examine the offer of state resources. He and others were blamed for professedly misusing N97bn through the offer of the state esteemed resources. Streams State Governor, Nyesom Wike, had charged that $150m (N30bn at the time) was spent on Buhari's battle in 2015. Amaechi tested his arraignment however lost at the Appeal Court. Albeit hostile to unite offices have declined to state on the off chance that he is under scrutiny or not, he presently can't seem to demonstrate his innocence is still under scrutiny by the state government.

The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Emma Okah, demanded that Amaechi was not cleared by the board that prosecuted him on the offer of a few resources having a place with the state. Likewise, a best authority at the Government House in Port Harcourt, called attention to that at the keep going rely on the issue, the previous senator had gone to the Supreme Court. An interest documented by Amaechi against the Justice George Omereji-drove board was in May 2017 expelled by the Appeal Court in Port HarCourt.

The Appeal Court had said that the refusal of Amaechi to show up before the board added up to abstinence. In any case, Okah said that the issue was as of now at the Supreme Court. "He (Amaechi) went to court against the board and the issue is still in the Supreme Court. The state government has not cleared him on the issue concerning the offer of esteemed resources having a place with the state," he said.

Amaechi couldn't be gone after remarks, as he didn't answer calls to his cell phone. An instant message sent to him on the issue did not get any answer. In any case, a senior authority of the Federal Ministry of Transportation told newsmen that the pastor was out of the nation. The official, who additionally works specifically with the pastor, expressed he (the authority) didn't know about the said affirmations against Amaechi. "I have not seen it (the report) and can't talk on it. In any case, the clergyman is in China at this moment," the official, who argued to be unknown, said.

Abdul'aziz Yari (N680m) 

Yari has been occupied with a wild fight with the EFCC for over a year following claims that he redirected about N700m which framed piece of the Paris Club discount because of his state. In July a year ago, a Federal High Court in Abuja requested an interval relinquishment of the entireties of N500m and $500,000 (N180m) said to have been plundered from the Paris Club discounts made by the Federal Government for the 36 conditions of the organization.

The entireties of cash said to have been recouped from two firms, First Generation Mortgage Bank Limited, and Gosh Projects Limited, were purportedly connected to the representative. The EFCC likewise claimed, in a testimony recorded in help of its ex parte application looking for the between time relinquishment of the wholes of cash, that the N500m was redirected to balance Yari's own credit got from the First Generation Mortgage Bank Limited. In July, the Presidential Support Committee of Buhari 2019 selected Sheriff as the