Nenadi Usman
Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, the Director of Finance of former
President Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, has
fallen in deeper trouble over the role she played in the disbursement of
huge public cash to state chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party in
the Northeast ahead of the poll.
According to Vanguard, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Wednesday, subjected Mrs. Usman to many hours of grilling,
demanding to know from her, how the N23 billion, which the former
Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, made available to her
to disburse to PDP faithful to influence the outcome of the 2015
presidential election in favour of its presidential candidate, was
shared.
The questioning of Usman, which took place at the Gombe Zonal
Office of EFCC, was the first in relation to the sharing of the N23
billion from the former oil minister, was her first in the Northeast
office but one of many to the EFCC in recent times.
Usman, who is standing trial for receiving another N4.2 billion
from the Office of the National Security Adviser and disbursing same to
top PDP politicians, including Femi Fani-Kayode, reportedly told
interrogators that she did not know that the money she was asked to
share to PDP bigwigs, came from the National treasury.
She told interrogators that the list and the formula for sharing
the cash was given to her by Diezani and that there was no way she could
have refused to do the job given the fact that she was a loyal party
official.
Usman admitted taking instructions from Diezani on how to share the
cash meant for the six states in the Northeast states of Gombe, Borno,
Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi and Yobe.
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