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Revealed: INEC chiefs got N23.3b bribe from Diezani’s for 2015 poll

Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) got at least N23.9billion from the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke before the 2015 general election.

The money which was paid into the bank account of the electoral officials was overseen by the managing director of Fidelity Bank, Nnamdi Okonkwo, who is now in the Economic Financial Crimes Commission’s custody.

According to an EFCC source who spoke to TheNation, the former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Rivers state, Gesil Khan, who oversaw the election that brought Nyesom WIke to office and four others are undergoing interrogation over the N681million the allegedly got from the bribe.

Khan reportedly got N185, 842,000 from the deal. Fidelia Omoile (Electoral Officer in Isoko-South Local Government Area of Delta State) got N112,480,000.

Other INEC suspects are Uluochi Obi Brown (INEC’s Administrative Secretary in Delta State) who got N111,500,000; a former Deputy Director of INEC in Cross River State, Edem Okon Effanga who got N241,127,000 and the Head of Voter Education in INEC in Akwa Ibom, Immaculata Asuquo who got N214,127,000.

During its preliminary investigations, the EFCC discovered that the N23.29billion was shared to INEC officials in all the 36 states, some individuals and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), which deployed to monitor the 2015 election.

A source in EFCC, told TheNation that: “We are looking at a case of conspiracy between Fidelity Bank and the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to bribe INEC officials to rig the 2015 presidential election nationwide.

“There was a time Diezani invited the MD of Fidelity Bank Nnamdi Okonkwo and told him that the owners of the four companies will come and drop some money and the MD should keep the money separately and await instructions on what to do.

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“The companies gave these amounts to the MD of Fidelity Bank as follows: Northern Belt Gas Company Limited ($60m); Auctus Integrated ($17,884,000); Midwestern Oil and Gas ($9.5m); and Leno Laitan Adesanya ($1.85m).

“On her part, Diezani sent $25.77million(approximately $26m) to the MD with all the funds totaling $115million (N23, 299,705,000billion).

“A day or two before the presidential election, she gave a distribution list to the Fidelity Bank Plc MD and instructed that the $115million be changed into Naira and shared to INEC officials in the 36 states, some individuals and NGOs.

“The MD said there was no way the bank could meet up with the conversion of the $115million into Naira and distribute at the same time. Diezani pleaded with the MD to use the Naira in the bank’s vault. She said if the bank changed the dollars later, it could make Naira replacement. That was how the money was distributed to INEC officials in 36 states, some individuals and NGOs.

“The MD instructed the bank’s Head of Operations, Martin Izuogbe, to communicate with all Fidelity Bank branches to effect the distribution of the cash to alter the presidential election poll results.”

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