Monday, 21 May 2012
The Many Troubles Of Emeka Offor By Femi Ajayi
By Femi Ajayi
For some time now, controversy seems to have found a perfect alter ego in Sir Emeka Offor, the billionaire businessman behind Chrome Oil Services. You would recall that Offor’s reputation as a billionaire without precedents reached inglorious heights during the first coming of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo and Offor are reportedly very close.
In fact, he is alleged to be one of the many fronts of the former President. During the 2003 elections, Offor’s donations formed a substantial part of his ally cum mentor’s campaign budget.
Prior to that time, he had singlehandedly funded the election of former Anambra State Governor, Chinwoke Mbadinuju. On assumption of power, Mbadinuju held tight to the locks of the State’s treasury, refusing to allow Offor burrow into it brazenly. They fell bitterly apart. Their embarrassing fall-out remains one of the anticlimaxes of Nigeria’s third republic. He threatened that the governor would not come back to office like other PDP governors. He made good his threat. Mbadinuju has been in political wilderness since then. Indeed, the many controversies of Offor would make for a compelling narrative any day.
Just when you think the gangling Anambra native has been buffeted enough by troubles, he recently took on a foe with the potentials to humble and consume him, opening yet another page in his pitiable romance with trouble. Last March, the United Kingdom government deported Offor because of his involvement in “serious, organized criminality.” We gathered that Offor had been under close scrutiny since December 2006 when he was caught with £700,000 stashed in his designer luggage, which was seized alongside his UK travel visa, and diplomatic passport he got under the Obasanjo regime.
Apart from the huge amount of cash found on him, Offor is believed to have a business relationship with a Houston, Texas-based oil company, EHRC Energy, which was raided by the FBI in 2006. Offor reportedly helped resolve a long running border dispute between Nigeria and Sao Tome through “gifts” to key political figures, while creating an offshore development zone where international oil companies could bid for the rights to drill.
Now, Offor is threatening fire and thunderstorm; spitting into the air and receiving it with accustomed ease, pointing and pouting and claiming that he is launching an all-out war against the UK government. Those who know say Offor is only barking but cannot bite because there is too much in his closets that the UK can nail him with.
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another lie
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 22, 2011 - 09:58.
i will not put Sir Emeka offor on a pedestal. However i have gleaned on several information over the years from various newspapers/online sites and i have coome to realise that ur medium is most of the time about muckraking and the like..what has Anambra business men done to you? In addition, dont misinform the public. Sao tome and nigeria dont share borders or abut.
Seriously, what is the point
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 17, 2010 - 15:39.
Seriously, what is the point of this article? Another attempt by SR to spread unsubstantiated rumors and hope it develops wings? Is there a minimum threshold (standards) for articles you publish? If it is not publishing pictures of Mexican Drug money and claiming that it is Ibori's you are publishing articles that can't be substantiated. I know tabloid business is good business, continue.
Emeka Offor, INEC and LENOVO a Chinese firm.
Submitted by Elmango Meat (not verified) on September 14, 2010 - 03:19.
I am so happy that Nigerian internet papers in their own way is playing a crucial role in curtailing graft in Nigeria by exposing these criminals beforte they finalise their plots. Offor was kicked out or resigned from ERHC, as his hands are in so many pies. The loss of 700,000 pounds Sterling is little compared to what he was digging into in Nigeria.
"A highly placed source prominent in the Abuja power circles informed Ukpakareports.com of the clandestine moves on the offing - against the development of the N87billion voters register. The source indentified the 1st Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Chief of Staff, Mike Oghiadomhe and the Oil Mogul, Emeka Offor as having financial interest in the Chinese firm, LENOVO. Through the makings of EMEKA OFFOR, a close and old friend to President Jonathan, who played the role of a MIDDLEMAN, the Chinese firm was introduced to the Jonathan people in the later weeks of June 2010."
FULL STORY:
http://www.ukpakareports.com/news.php?type_id=1&news_id=1370
Today on the issue of Voters Register: FG, INEC backpedals on Chinese firm!:
http://www.ukpakareports.com/news.php?type_id=2&news_id=1377
Femy Ajay's Analysis
Submitted by John Ekwo CAU (not verified) on September 13, 2010 - 20:23.
I have followed your political analysis since your days as a studend at CAU and when you were the secretary of state,I always admire your data collection method though you always refuse to reveal it. Please do us a favor by ,at ,leasst. saying how you get the information.You are always right, why?.
John , Riverdale Georgia
Dumb-ass Emeka
Submitted by Ghettoboi (not verified) on September 12, 2010 - 01:06.
Our man Emeka should have been smarter than that stupid-ass move,oh he 4got he is still a n***a.A n***a with that kind of money in a designer luggage 'HELLOOOO'wats the dumb-ass n***a thinkin'.Now the whiteman gat is money and put is ass in- check.N***A u can kiss that money goodbye,should 've put that money into a good use/cause in naija.For the rest of you mothaf-ckers that steals our money and takes it to UK/US duh wake up the whiteman dont give a f-ck about you.I thought EMEKA lived in Houston, now you know with all that money u aint sh*t dumb-ass.
