Peter Odili Opens Up On The N100million He Collected

The man who has a perpetual injunction against his arrest and prosecution, ex-governor Peter Odili has for the first time admitted that he indeed got N100million, but said the money was from the PDP for the contact and mobilization in the South-South for 2015 elections.

The ex-governor said he did not collect money from ex-Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda. He also said he has never had any dealing with a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

Odili said the N100m was given to him at the home of ex-PDP National Chairman, Adamu Muazu.

But who exactly gave Odili the money at the house of PDP chairman?

His statement: “My attention has been drawn to some publications where a former Minister of State (Finance), Mr. Bashir Yuguda was quoted to have said that he allegedly gave me the sum of N100 million, out of the money he purportedly collected from the former National Security Adviser. And I wish to state as follows:

"I decided to personally sign this rebuttal because over the years, I had ignored various spurious and patently false reports against me because I Knew that at the fullness of time, the truth would surely prevail.

"I would have similarly ignored this recent falsehood attributed to Mr. Yuguda but for the fact that the uninformed are beginning to latch on this long – held false and tendentious narrative, hence my decision to rebut this with all vehemence.

"I categorically state with all sense of responsibility that I have never had any dealings, private or business or official, with the former National Security Adviser, so the issue of allegedly collecting N100 million from either the former NSA or Mr. Yuguda does not arise.

"That as part of preparations towards the 2015 elections, the PDP set up contact and mobilisation committees across the six geo – political zones and I was appointed the Chairman of the South – South mobilisation committee.

"Consequent upon this, the party, not the former NSA or Yuguda gave the South-South Committee through me, the sum of N100 million along with other zonal Chairmen, in the house of the National Chairman, Dr. Adamu Muazu, for the assignment.”

The ex-governor said he wrote a report to the leader of the party on how the N100million was disbursed.

- Odili didn't name who gave him money. Was it PDP money? If it is, you should tell us confidently.