Forces against Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, are reportedly considering giving him the ‘Onnoghen’ treatment.
In addition to pushing for Osinbajo’s investigation by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commssion (EFCC), the forces are reportedly
insisting that the vice president should account for Social Investment
Programme (SIP) funds which were under his supervision before the
general election.
In January, a non-governmental organisation, Anti-Corruption and
Research-Based Data Initiative (ARDI) forwarded a petition to the Code
of Conduct Bureaun(CCB), wherein it detailed fraud allegations against
then Chief Justice of the Federation, Walter Onnoghen.
ARDI Executive Secretary, Dennis Aghanya, explained then that his
petition against Onnoghen was to save Nigeria from collapse and that his
organisation commenced investigation against him in 2018.
That was the plank upon which Onnoghen was arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
On October 3, the Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic
Education (CHRICED) charted a similar path when it called on the EFCC to
probe Osinbajo in an alleged N90 billion released to him by the Federal
Inland Revenue Service for the elections.
In the petition, CHRICED said the allegations were quite weighty and worrisome.
The petition signed by Ibrahim M. Zikirullahi reads: “On the basis
of this express declaration from the president, to the effect that
public funds will not be deployed to fund electioneering purpose of the
ruling party, the Nigerian people believed and trusted the president’s
pledge.
“However, the claims by Timi Frank imply that the ruling party did
not adhere to the directives of the president on his proclaimed non-use
of public funds to prosecute the election in favour of the ruling party.
“If these allegations are proven to be true, it would also mean that
the campaign finance legislation governing the electoral process, as
enshrined in the Electoral Act 2010 as amended, had been flagrantly
violated.
“As a former Deputy Publicity Secretary of the ruling party with the
benefit of wide contacts in the seat of power, Timi Frank could as well
be privy to information, which the rest of us may not know.
“As such, only a meticulous investigation of these claims will bring the truth to life.
“In the light of these developments and their implications for the
legitimacy of the government, and by extension the anti-corruption
crusade, CHRICED calls for a robust, painstaking and thorough
investigation of these claims with a view to verifying whether they are
true or false. This step from your honourable Commission is critical,
and will help clear the air, and douse the suspicion, which the
allegations have precipitated since they began circulating.
“If the vice president is culpable as these allegations claim, then
he should be made to face the consequences of such culpability.
“However, if the claimant making the allegations is found to be
deceiving the public, appropriate steps should be taken to hold him to
account; in line with the rule of law.”
It was gathered that although the vice president has “no problem with
his boss,” the forces against Osinbajo are insisting that his role in
the Federal Government-backed SIP must be investigated.
A source privy to the plot added: “At an interactive session with
women in the Presidential Villa, early this year, it was the First Lady,
Aisha Buhari, who raised the alarm that the federal government SIP was a
failure in the North. The first lady even said that the SIP failed in
the state of the SSA to the president, in charge of the programme. These
and other allegations about SIP funds are being bandied about, against
the VP.
“There is a formal petition before the EFCC. They must act on it.”
Daily Sun’s efforts, yesterday, to ascertain what EFCC is doing about the petition yielded no result.
Telephone calls and text messages to EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, went unanswered.
Regardless, two weeks ago, the vice president met with the Christian
Association of Nigeria (CN), where he dismissed the fraud allegations as
“politics of 2023.”
Daily Sun gathered that at the meeting held at Akinola Agudu House,
inside the Presidential Villa, Osinbajo insisted there was “no N90
billion anywhere,” and that he is ready to defend his integrity
anywhere.
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