The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari,
Aisha, has sued the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, for alleging that
she was one of those indicted for involvement in the Halliburton
multi-million dollar scandal.
The President’s wife had on many
occasions denied involvement in the scam with a threat to sue Fayose if
he did not stop dragging her into a fraud she knew nothing about.
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Credits: Punch – Fayose and Aisha
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A former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, had also declared that
Aisha was not one of Nigerians mentioned in the scam or indicted for the
scandal.
The EFCC investigated the scam during Lamorde’s tenure as the anti-graft boss.
But in spite of these, Fayose had
insisted that the President’s wife was involved in the fraud in which
Nigeria lost huge sums of money, alleging that the Federal Government’s
anti-corruption war was selective and politically-motivated.
The governor claimed that Aisha Buhari
was named in a document that stated she was one of those indicted in the
celebrated scandal.
However, a Nigerian online medium,
Premium Times reported on Wednesday night that Mrs. Buhari had dragged
Fayose to court for maligning her name.
Premium Times stated that it had
exclusively obtained the court summons, dated July 20, 2016, that Aisha
filed against the governor.
When our correspondent contacted
Fayose’s lawyer, Mr. Mike Ozekhome (SAN), on Wednesday night to confirm
whether his client had been served the summons or not, his telephone
number had been switched off.
Source: The Punch
