Senator Rashidi Ladoja received N100m from the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tony Anenih, ahead of the last general elections.
Former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), is alleged to have funded the accounts of some PDP leaders to mobilise support for Jonathan’s re-election.
The funds used to facilitate Jonathan’s re-election campaign was alleged to have been diverted by Dasuki from $2.1bn meant for procurement of arms and ammunition for the armed forces.
During the course of its investigation, the EFCC traced part of the disbursed funds- N260m- to the account of Anenih.
The former PDP BoT Chairman, however, explained that former President, Goodluck Jonathan instructed him to release the funds to some political groups for mobilisation and post-election peace advocacy.
Anenih stated in his letter to the EFCC that N100m was given to the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Chief Olu Falae, N100m to Ladoja and N63m to a group headed by elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai.
Consequently, Accord Party, which is headed by Ladoja, has confirmed that its principal indeed received N100m from Anenih.
The disclosure was contained in a one-page letter from the National Secretary of Accord, Nureni Adisa to the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.
The letter which was dated 8th January 2016, was titled ‘Release of N100m by Chief Tony Anenih’.
It read in part: “Our attention has been drawn to a newspaper report that the sum of N100m was released to the Accord leader, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, by Chief Tony Anenih, the (former) Chairman BoT of the PDP.”
“We confirm that the sum of N100m was given to the party through our leader after series of meetings between the leadership of Accord and Chief Tony Anenih in preparation for the 2015 general elections.”
“The following issues were discussed at the meetings: the need to support the presidential candidate of the PDP since Accord had no presidential candidate; the need to ensure that peace was maintained to enhance peaceful movement during periods of campaign, elections and after the elections; and the need for the PDP to support Accord campaign effort.”
“Accordingly, Chief Anenih released the sum of N100m for these purposes through our leader, Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja. The money released was accordingly used for the purposes as stated above.”
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