$2.1 Billion Arms Deal: Mimiko Collected N500 Million, Has A Case To Answer, Says Ondo APC

The restriction All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State on Sunday said the beset Governor Olusegun Mimiko has a case to reply over the $2.1 billion arms bargain intended to battle the Boko Haram rebellion desolating the North-East part of the nation.

Omo'ba Abayomi Adesanya, the State reputation secretary of the gathering, said this in an announcement issued and got by SaharaReporters in Akure, the State capital.


Mr. Adesanya blamed Mr. Mimiko of accepting N500 million out of the $2.1 billion arms bargain from the workplace of the past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

He said the representative got the cash when he served as the Chairman of the Goodluck Jonathan presidential crusade in the Southwest amid the last broad decision.

"We consider it as insidious and hard for anybody to have gotten and redirected stores implied for the acquirement of arms to support the presidential battle of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2015. As the director of Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign in the Southwest, we do hold that in spite of the insusceptibility that Mr. Representative appreciates, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has a case to reply on this issue," Mr. Adesanya said.

The APC representative further blamed Mr. Mimiko of utilizing a factional director of the PDP, Clement Faboyede, in the State as an operator for washing the assets.

He charged that the troubled PDP director is presently on the keep running for the apprehension of being captured by the counter join organization of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

"A factional executive of the PDP in Ondo State, Clement Faboyede, who the representative supposedly utilized as a dispatch to gather the assets from the workplace of the National Security Adviser, has following departed suddenly and left the State for the apprehension of being captured by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission," Mr. Adesanya uncovered.

The gathering's representative likewise said that the pioneers of the PDP profited and benefitted lavishly from the assets proposed to be utilized as a part of the battle against the extremists that have dislodged more than 2.3 million Nigerians.