*Alleged to have admitted giving former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar’s campaign team N100bn
*Further alleged to have spent N8bn in process of purchasing Vice Presidential ticket
*Stakeholders say signs are clear that fraudulent governors will have no place to hide
*Insist that Elumelu mentioned in story should be arrested
By Our Correspondent
Former Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa has been singing like the Canary bird in detention where he has been held since his recent arrest.
A guest of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Okowa is alleged to have started confessing how he squandered a whooping sum of N111billion in what has been described as his desperate bid to become the Vice President of Nigeria.
In a confessional post obtained by Nigerian Pilot, Okowa was quoted to have told his interrogators that he gave the different sums of money through Elumelu for onward transmission to their destinations.
The first set of money is alleged to have gone to the campaign team of the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar which got the sum of N100 billion.
It would be recalled that the former Delta State Governor was the running mate of Atiku Abubakar who was the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2023 general elections.
Okowa was also alleged in the document to have disclosed that he spent the sum of N8billion in the process of purchasing the Vice Presidential ticket.
Furthermore, Okowa was said to have allegedly disclosed that he gave the screening committee of the PDP the sum of N3billion to clear himself and Sheriff.
He was also said to have allegedly revealed that he was responsible for Atiku Abubakar’s trip to the 36 states of the country during the electioneering campaigns and that he used one “Elumelu” as his front man, perhaps why some stakeholders hold the opinion that Elumelu should also be arrested.
Okowa’s case, stakeholders further posit, should be real lesson for fraudulent Nigerian governors who they said should have no hiding place any longer
“Atiku’s son was the person who allegedly kept picking up the funds in dollars from Delta State to Abuja,” the former Governor of Delta State was alleged to have further revealed.