Alleged Mambilla $500,000 bribe: ‘Diverter-in-Chief’ — Presidency brands Atiku

The Presidency has branded the statesmanlike campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, ‘Diverter-in-Chief’ for dodging journalists’ questions connected the alleged $500,000 Mambilla task bribe.

In a connection by the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Friday, the Presidency said Atiku is taking Nigerians for buffoons.

It said Atiku was astatine his evasive best, avoiding remark connected his indictment successful Paris by the International Chamber of Commerce, ICC, implicit the alleged amerciable Mambilla Hydro Power Project contract.

The Presidency alleged that Atiku and erstwhile Minister of Power, Olu Agunloye, awarded the declaration to Sunrise Power without authorisation from the Federal Executive Council and President Olusegun Obasanjo.

It claimed that during the hearings astatine the Tribunal, Atiku collected a $500,000 bribe from Sunrise and Leno Adesanya, the company’s CEO, to o.k. the contract.

According to the Presidency, the wealth was sent successful tranches to the US Citibank relationship of Atiku’s erstwhile wife, Jennifer Douglas, triggering reddish flags astatine Citibank and appearing, among different things, successful the US Senate investiga...