A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has expressed doubt that the former governor of Kogi Yahaya Bello would misappropriate $720,000 from the government account exchanged it through Bureau De Change operators, and used the funds to pay his children’s fees in advance.
Dele said that when red his case what he saw was quite different from the allegation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello has been accused by the anti-graft agency for misappropriation of government funds and other financial crimes. According to the EFCC Chairman Olukoyede, the former governor was invited to defend his stewardship. Yahaya Bello told the EFCC Chairman that he was afarid to appear before the EFCC because he will be implicated.
Before now, the EFCC operatives had stormed the former governor's residence at Abuja but was whisked away the governor of Kogi State Ododo and was taken to the government house.
The embattled former governor was placed on the watch list of the Nigerian Immigration Service while all police officers attached to him have equally been withdrawn by the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun.
According to Punch, Dele said, "I mean, I looked at the issue of school fees. Before I read, I was like, how can somebody pay that kind of money? Then, when I read, it was something else I was seeing. They said he paid upfront just before he left the government, and when I checked, that was not what happened. How can you try people before you go and examine the facts?"