Sunday Ejike – Abuja
The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has invited the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Mr Festus Keyamo over a petition he sent requesting the investigation of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Keyamo, in the petition, accused Atiku of diverting public funds while he was Nigeria’s vice president through the purchase of Special Purpose Vehicles.
The minister of state for labour and employment had given the CCB a 72-hour ultimatum to “arrest, invite, interrogate and prosecute” Atiku for the alleged offences.
Keyamo, in his suit filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, joined the CCB, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as 2nd, 3rd and 4th defendants respectively, while Atiku is the first defendant.
In the suit, Keyamo sought a declaration of the court that the 1st defendant (Atiku) is under a legal obligation to make available to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th defendants, for the purpose of aiding their investigation, information available to him in respect of a certain bank account belonging to a company named Marine Float and other accounts of two undisclosed companies, which information he disclosed to a certain close aide of his called Michael Achimugu, as to how the said accounts were used as a “Special Purpose Vehicles” to secretly divert and misappropriate public funds between 1999 and 2007 when he (Atiku Abubakar) served as Vice President of Nigeria.
The CCB was said to have extended an invitation to Keyamo to enable him to adopt his petition and to provide any additional information that may be relevant to the investigation of the matter.
The Bureau requested that Keyamo should come with one, Michael Achimugu, to assist with enquiries regarding the attachments to his petition.
Festus Keyamo Chambers confirmed the invitation on Thursday in a press release signed by John Ainetor, Assistant Head of his Chambers, in Lagos.
He said, “The Bureau has invited our client Mr Festus Keyamo to come forward to adopt his petition and to help it to secure the presence of the whistleblower, Mr Michael Achimugu to assist in the investigation.”
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