Former presidential aspirant and Afenifere elder, Chief Olu Falae, has submitted an incriminating email correspondence to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in his ongoing investigation for election scam.
The said email, between him and a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, allegedly mentions former president Goodluck Jonathan in the N100 million election funds handed to Falae.
“In the email, Anenih told Chief Falae, who is the Chairman of the SDP that N100m had been approved by President Jonathan as part of the agreement between the PDP and the SDP ahead of the presidential election,” an EFCC source said.
“He further urged Falae to provide an account which the money would be paid into.”
The slush fund was said to have emanated from the imprest account of the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) in the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Spokesman for Falae, Mr. Alfa Mohammed, confirmed the 78-year-old former Secretary to the Government of the Federation had submitted all correspondence between Falae and the PDP.
“We had a letter of agreement between the PDP and the SDP regarding cooperation between the two parties for the election. There was an email from Anenih stating that Mr. President (Jonathan) told him to transfer the money to that effect,” he told Punch in a phone interview.
“We have submitted everything to the EFCC, but the EFCC has not deemed it fit to invite Anenih which shows that it is people within the All Progressives Congress that are just trying to rubbish the image of Chief Falae, who has served meritoriously as a permanent secretary, a SGF and a finance minister.”
While stating that the PDP still owed the SDP about N70m, Mohammed asserted that Falae could not have known that the money emanated from the ONSA and thus could not be held liable.
Meanwhile the commission is on the verge of arraigning the ex-SGF on charges of conspiracy to indirectly retain the sum of N100m which he ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of an “unlawful act to wit: stealing.”
