Olu Falae Admits Receiving 100million Naira From Dasuki

Chief Olu Falae

Former presidential candidate and Afenifere leader, Chief Olu Falae, has admitted receiving 100 million Naira from former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, for election campaigns of his political party.

Speaking to Channels Television on Sunday evening, Chief Olu Falae said that the money was received based on certain conditions and were transmitted to his party as soon as he got it.

He also promised to hold a press conference to explain what truly transpired between him and the former NSA on Monday, January 11, 2016.

Chief Falae’s political party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in an earlier statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Abdul Isiaq, on Sunday, had absorbed its National Chairman, Mr Olu Falae, of any wrong doing.

The party said that the 100 million Naira arms deal money that was received by Falae from Mr Tony Anenih, was meant for the SDP/PDP Electoral Alliance project.

They also explained that the money was shared to all the 36 state chapters of the party in the build-up of the 2015 elections.

The party maintained that “neither the SDP nor Mr Falae was aware that the money came from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, through Chief Anenih and meant for arms purchase”.

The party stressed that “the SDP as well as many Nigerians were aware that the PDP had a fund raising event prior to the election where billions of naira was donated”.

They said that the SDP was also conscious of the fact that the PDP had ruled Nigeria for 16 years and expected that the PDP was capable of funding their part of the electoral alliance.

Source: Channels TV