HEDA petitioned the EFCC and CCB requesting a thorough investigation into Atiku’s roles in incorporating the Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV)...
, says it has asked for a thorough investigation into the interest of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , Atiku Abubakar, in a firm allegedly used to embezzle government’s funds.
The group said Atiku, in an audio recording, confessed to how he advised the then President Olusegun Obasanjo to name three individuals – Oyewole Fasawe, Andy Uba and a politician from Borno State as directors or subscribers of the company he was then trying to set up. The audio recording has stirred political reactions and comments from Nigerians across social media platforms.In its reaction, the ruling All Progressives Congress Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council had urged Atiku to come clean on his confessions about how he allegedly colluded with his former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to steal from the Nigerian treasury, using the SPV after becoming Vice-President in 1999.
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