POLITICS: Tambuwal battles Dino Melaye over campaign funds as Donald Duke Analyses corruption in the PDP (Video)

 

“It will be recalled that earlier this month Abuja Network News had reported how Dino Melaye and some key PDP stakeholders smuggled a whooping N50 billion new Naira notes out of the CBN coffers with the aid of complicit officials of the apex bank”

Dino Melaye/Tambuwal

PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Director General of the Atiku Okowa campaign council and Sokoto state Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has accused Dino Melaye who is the spokesman and the director of mobilization of pocketing some monies meant to be shared with members and stakeholders as mobilization fees in some Northern States.

A source to the Atiku/Okowa campaign organization, according to Abuja Network News, revealed that Atiku provided billions of Naira to some selected stakeholders and members across the country to be used as mobilization fees ahead of the upcoming elections.

According to the publication, Dino Melaye in his dual capacity as both the spokesman and the Director of Mobilization &  campaign was chosen to oversee the distribution in the Northern part of the country.

It will be recalled that earlier this month Abuja Network News had reported how Dino Melaye and some key PDP stakeholders smuggled a whooping N50 billion new Naira notes out of the CBN coffers with the aid of complicit officials of the apex bank.

However, another investigation by Abuja Network News later found that the money was part of a N120 billion Naira credit facility belonging to the Delta State Government but was meant to be shared with some key Northern states as mobilization fees for the election.

It was against the backdrop that the director general of the campaign and Sokoto state Governor Aminu Tambuwal opened what is now a can of worms accusing Dino of using his office to corruptly enrich himself from the campaign funds.

Tambuwal was was said to have reported this discovery to Atiku and some major stakeholders how figures and some bank documents in his possession show that Dino Melaye has diverted some of the funds for personal use.

However, a report says that some key northern stakeholders who benefited from the largess and have an interest in the Atiku Presidency were doing everything possible to calm nerves and keep the issue under lock and key until after the elections. But sources close to Tambuwal say he is adamant in probing the allegation.

Watch Mr. Donald Duke, a former PDP governor of Cross River state speaking on corruption in the party

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