In 2022, ahead of the 2023 general elections, Atiku was caught on tape admitting to his involvement in a complex conspiracy that for years took advantage of federal contracting expenditures.
The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) is reportedly set to investigate the former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, over the alleged diversion of public funds via ‘Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV)’.
In 2022, ahead of the 2023 general elections, Atiku was caught on tape admitting to his involvement in a complex conspiracy that for years took advantage of federal contracting expenditures.
The viral audio was shared by Atiku’s former aide, Michael Achimugu, revealing where the former vice-president was narrating how he took charge of setting up onshore shell businesses to serve as a conduit for syphoning significant funds from public works contracts for himself and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
But the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council dismissed the allegations, saying that Achimugu was being sponsored by the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to distract Nigerians.
Following Achimugu’s revelation, a spokesman for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo (SAN), filed petitions to law enforcement agencies including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); Code of Conduct Bureau and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), asking them to arrest Atiku.
On Thursday, PM News reported that Keyamo Chambers revealed in a statement signed by its Assistant Head of Chambers in Lagos, John Ainetor, that the CCB invited Keyamo to adopt his petition and to help it to secure the presence of Achimugu as it is set to commence investigation into the case.
Ainetor said, “The Bureau has invited our client Mr. Festus Keyamo to come forward to adopt his petition and to help it to secure the presence of the whistleblower, Mr. Michael Achimugu to assist in the investigation.
“Mr. Keyamo assures that the crusade for accountability in respect of this issue was not a campaign gimmick as he promises to follow it through to a logical conclusion, even after the victory of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”