Waripamowei Dudafa
Premium Times
has exclusively reported that a former Special Assistant to former
President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Matters, Waripamowei Dudafa, has
been arrested by security operatives while attempting to travel out of
the country through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
According to a source at the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Dudafa was on the anti-graft agency’s wanted list for
his alleged involvement in the sharing of N10billion to delegates
during the December 2014 presidential primaries of the then ruling
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He allegedly converted the money into US dollars, amounting to
$47million, and distributed to delegates from the 36 states and the
Federal Capital Territory.
Investigators say they believe the fund was part of the alleged
$2.1billion meant for the purchase of arms but which authorities said
was shared as slush funds to politicians through the office of a former
National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
EFCC Sources disclosed to Premium Times that Dudafa was arrested
and quizzed by the operatives of the State Security Service (DSS),
before he was handed over to the EFCC on Monday. "He has been on our wanted list for a long time and he evaded arrest on several occasions," a top EFCC official, who asked not to be named, said.
When contacted, the spokesperson of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, declined comment on the matter.
It can be recalled that the anti-graft agency had recently arrested Goodluck
Jonathan’s Aide de Camp, Ojogbane Adegbe, allegedly on the directive of
the Nigerian Army and later his ally, Jide Omokore, over a series of
multi-billion dollar petrol import and crude export deals.
Nigeria’s secret police, the DSS, also arrested and later dismissed
the ex-president’s Chief Security Officer, Gordon Obua, alongside the
spokesperson of the agency, Marilyn Ogar and several others.
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