R-e-v-e-a-l-e-d: How Uduaghan Paid Obasanjo And Tribunal Judges Over N3 billion To Buy Election [Photocopies Of Cheques Available]
Two cheques, issued in June 2010 and June 2011, provide incontrovertible evidence about how the embattled governor of Delta state, Emmanuel Uduaghan, buys favours and pays off supporters with state funds.
The cheques, which were issued from the Oceanic Bank accounts operated by the Delta State government, show that the state government made illegal payments to the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, whom it had retained to influence tribunal judgments during difficult political times.
The first cheque was initially issued to Obasanjo Farms on June 15, 2010, from a Delta State account with number 0051-301-000008 for Seven Hundred and Seventy eight million, six hundred thousand Naira (N778, 600,000).
However, in a high noon manoeuvre three days later, on June 18, 2010, the money was transferred to a Manager at Wema Bank Plc, to the Obasanjo Farms account number 1261153353017 with Sort Code 035171263.
As SaharaReporters revealed in a previous report, that account was one of the various secret bank accounts maintained by Obasanjo in Wema Bank.
The last cheque, which had been identified as the monies used to bribe election petition tribunal judges that recently proclaimed Dr. Uduaghan the winner of the highly rigged January 6, 2011 re-run election, also emanated from Oceanic Bank where Uduaghan’s current Commissioner of Finance, Bernard Okumagba,once served as a “financial planner” in the mid 1990ss.
The cheque, for N2.5 billion, was addressed to “Manager Oceanic Bank Call Account” and was reportedly cashed and moved away in bullion vans to a location from which judges, consultants and lawyers were paid in cold, hard cash.
That mind-boggling amount of N2.5 billion was taken out of the “Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC)” account of the Delta State government in Oceanic Bank with Account Number “0051-301-000059”.
After the monies were cashed, they were reportedly given to actors in the election tribunal that included three judges. Other beneficiaries were Chief Obasanjo, Mr. “Fix-It” Anthony Anenih, and Jonathan’s Chief of Staff, Mike Oghiadomhe.
It would be recalled that the final judgment of the re-run election tribunal was read by Tribunal Chairperson Justice Uzoamaka Ogwurike on July 25 2011. The judge had given the impression that the tribunal was doing a thorough job and planned to annul the election when, in fact, she was negotiating a higher pay-off amount, put at N350 million, for herself separate from other members who had accepted their bribe early in the work of the tribunal.
SaharaReporters contacted the Delta State Commissioner of Finance to ask about the transactions by calling his mobile phone number, but he sent us a text message saying he was busy at a meeting. After we disclosed we were calling from New York, he never called back as promised.
Comments
Most of these men who occupy
Most of these men who occupy public office are not leaders but Financial terrorist.
You gave the impression that you do not know what it takes to bring these terrorist to justice especially when the courts and enforcement agencies are corrupt. You cite countries where people took to the street, non of these countries is as big or populated or made up of different ethnic groups like Nigeria.
My brother, wake up and support the good cause to liberate Nigeria from darkness.
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You sectional idiot! This is
You sectional idiot! This is not about favors. If anybody has done any favor to the Niger delta, it's the north who despite having majority of PDP governors, still went ahead to impose your brother. Don't forget that we the north still have majority of PDP governors and that means majority of votes in the coming primaries. Don't be deceived. The north found it convenient for Jona to be there this time.
yoruba/hausa
TRUE YORUBA AND HAUSAS ARE STEALING THE TREASURY BARE BUT THE IBOS WOULD HAVE WIPED IT CLEAN A LONG TIME AGO TRUST ME.EVEN THEY WILL TESTIFY TO THAT.NOT THAT IT`S RIGHT BUT NEEDED TO REPLY TO YOUR BITCHING.WE HAVE AN EPIDEMIC AMONGST US CALLED CORRUPTION WE NEED NOT CROWN IT OFF WITH TRIBAL BIGOTRY.
Stop this empty cry!
I do not subscribe to antics of the cyber tigers who attack their "leaders" in cyberspace. These men live with you and among you. If the society and social system does not condone stealing, these persons would either be in cages like Mubarak now or rotting in their graves.
My advice therefore is that all of you crying and swearing here should stop. If you have a case against your governor, or any of your leaders for that matter, there is a better way to bring him or them to book. Go to court or to the streets. Take example from Tunisia, Egypt, syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Israel, England...
THIEF........................................
May the cry of youth in delta state caught up with you, your families, and unto your 50th generations if God delays his coming. May the wrath of God poison you souls to death. As for criminal Obasanjo may you never know peace, may all the days of your existence be filled will pain not only you but unto your 50th generation, IJN Amen. As for the Law who could have protected the interest of the masses. May the law of God catch up with you and your families who are dying in disguise of enjoyment unto your generations yet unborn. May the dogs eat up your flesh. OH LORD PLEASE HEAR OUR CRY AND HEARKEN UNTO OUR PRAYERS, DISGRACE, EXPOSE THIS UNWORTHY ROBBERS LEADERS, YOU PROMISED TO DEVOUR THE DEVOURER FOR OUR SAKE,THIS IS THE TIME COME AND AVENGE FOR US SO THAT DIRTY POLITICIANS WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE ALIVE AND YOU ARE STILL IN THE BUSINESS OF DOING THINGS. IJN AMEN
THE OLD ONES ARE ANALOGUE THIEF'S
the older generation politicians do not sweep the state funds like their children e.g former speakers, former ogun state governor, former edo state gov, my current Ak governor, etc, the young onessteals without no councience, they belive that nothing go happen afterall GEJ na toothless dog wey no fit bite
deadly leaders must die someday
You will never go unpunish all the leaders we have.u̶̲̥̅̊ will die of suffer,u̶̲̥̅̊ tink you are enjoying right, but have it i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̥̅̊ mind that you have kids .GOD. Will never let you go unpunish stupid leaders.mad men bastards stealing money from US A̶̲̥̅̊₪D̶̲̥̅̊. Other people are dying.FOOLS
Yoruba/Hausa
Ndigbo are always accused of loving money. The truth is that while the myth persists the Yoruba/Hausa businesses and politicians are stealing the treasury bare. They keep producing these richest Africans and Nigerians who gained by gaming the system.
@ History.....
@History Lesson
Stop misleading people by saying that nobody can issue a cheque above 10 million since 2010. The policy says any cheques above 10 million should be reported to EFCC, but how many banks comply ? How many 10M cheques do you think passes through Bank's clearing daily that they'll be bothering themselves logging 10M ?
Those cheques were converted to Managers Cheques before they were lodged into Obasanjo Farm account and later went through Bank clearing . Running inquiry on that (Obasanjo's) account couldn't have revealed the source/origin of these deposits.
Nigerian Politics
You do not need to get the dictionary to analyse the meaning of POLITICS when it concerns Nigeria.
It is a game of the corrupt and born without concern to human right.
Humans are suppose to enjoy the country's resources and shared equally but in Nigeria it does not happen that way.
I feel afraid so so afraid for our future generation that these sort of legacy would be passed on to them and continue if nothing is done to stop this practices. United Nations please we need your assistance regarding this terible crisis that is lurking in Nigerian system of the so called democratic system. floodgate 11.
Truth cannot stand on lies
No matter how some of you come here and shout, truth cannot stand on lies. cooking up stories to try to bring down people is so wrong. These are just cheques of transactions of Obj farms and Delta government. There is nothing in these cheques that says they were bribes. The OBJ farms project has been on for abut 2 years. some of the cheques are also doctored cheques. anyone with good knowledge of Photoshop can see that. also, since January 2010, you cannot issue a cheque for any amount above 10million in Nigeria. We need good journalists who can expose the government, not fraudulent journalists who will publish falsehood in the name of investigative journalism. 2 wrongs don't make a right. the revolution that we seek cannot be founded on lies and falsehood else we become as guilty the ones we accuse. SR should go back to the days(2006)when they did credible stuff. they are fast becoming a propaganda machine and will eventually go down.
Payment for......
Payment for the eggs and chickens supplied to Delta State Government house since the state creation. Sorry, Nigeria independence.
Oh God ! let not the foolish become wise, for the wise needs to keep making progress.
Bribery Obasanjo and company
Come to think of it our dear Obasanjo was pontificating good governance free of corruption at an international gathering last week or so. If the SR report is true then the internationa community is being taken for a ride by Obadanjo and company. And that will be sad indeed.
Response to allegation posed against Governor Uduaghan
You are the only literate person among the crowd of not so knowledgeable and uneducated commentators. I am ashamed SR and our fellow countrymen are openly disseminating so much ignorance. A little bit of objectivity will make the medium (SR) more credible and less of a Jankara market of gossips and scandals.
Rev.I.I.
Response to allegation posed against Governor Uduaghan
You are the only literate person among the crowd of not so knowledgeable and uneducated commentators. I am ashamed SR and our fellow countrymen are openly disseminating so much ignorance. A little bit of objectivity will make the medium (SR) more credible and less of a Jankara market of gossips and scandals.
Rev.I.I.
Greedy is an Understatement
To use the word greedy to describe these folks is an understatement, so i will borrow from Fela, they are and will always be ITT. Fela got it right over 30 years ago, that OBJ is an INTERNATIONAL THIEF THIEF.......
This is Nigeria bleeding
When will all this corruption stop? people are hungry and crying and a fool is paying 3 billion naira for a position where he can steal more. Has he not learnt from IBORI
Obj and Uduaghan
Fellow niger-Deltans pls let us Treat Baba with some respect cos He has done soooo much for Us if only we can go back to History He single handedly divided d northern political empire that wants Aso-rock villa as their home, He gave us military Camps and many more... Pls let's all leave Baba out of Uduaghan's case. When d right time comes for Ogboru nobody can deny Him!
OLE!!!!!!!!!!!
EFCC should not boarder 419(guy men/Yahoo Boys) again but face armed robbers in the government using tax payers money to buy people votes,
Delta state governor you are a disgrace to all humanity.The rot of God will fall on you and Obasanjo the ugly bar boo.You will never live to eat or enjoy this money you have stolen.Amen
May d wrath of God be upon u
May d wrath of God be upon u n ur cohorts till d end amen
Chichidodo and maggot
the beautiful ones are not yet born, the ugly ones refused to die. the ugly ones are those that troubles our nation............
See how Delta state money is
See how Delta state money is been spend,and no meaningful development is seen in the state for the five yrs that uguaghan has been in the govt house. Well one day GOD will lift this state over them all.
@Lanray
Lanray, what ever gender you may be, yours is the best comment I've ever read in the SR forum.No better way to describe the country called Nigeria and it's so called leaders. Kudos!
wat a shame
I can't believe u are accusin saharareporters..these people are speaking our mind here..well maybe you get little peanuts from the govt that's why u can open your mouth and speak like an illitrate..with folks like you in Nigeria, it wil b so difficult 2 move forward..
Sahara Reporters
@AMENA................
WHY ARE U LAMENTING THAT SAHARA REPORTERS IS DOING DAMAGE TO YOUR SO CALLED LEADERS. DONT THEY USE STATE FUNDS FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES. I'M SURE U ARE A BENEFICIARY. I'M SURE OF THAT. SAHARA REPORTERS ARE LOOKING FOR WHERE THE NEWS IS AND NIGERIA BEING THE WORST CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS TOPPING THE LIST FOR THEIR NEWS MAGAZINE.
See how Delta state money is
See how Delta state money is been spend,and no meaningful development is seen in the state for the five yrs that uguaghan has been in the govt house. Well one day GOD will lift this state over them all.