The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, is still under scrutiny for his affirmed part in the dispensing of N23bn battle stores, which exuded from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The N23bn was claimed to have been a piece of stolen raw petroleum assets and
kickbacks from contractual workers.
Part of the cash was purportedly utilized as a part of influencing authorities of the Independent National Electoral Commission amid the 2015 general decisions.
Ize-Iyamu had told columnists that as the crusade executive for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organization in Edo State amid the 2015 presidential decision, he took care of N700m for the gathering.
He was tested by the EFCC in May 2016, when he was requested that arrival some cash to the commission however was not confined, subsequently fuelling theories that he had been cleared by the counter unite office.
The EFCC representative, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, be that as it may, told our journalist on Monday that the PDP applicant was still under scrutiny.
"I can affirm to you that he (Ize-Iyamu) is still under scrutiny," Wilson said.
Ize-Iyamu had told columnists that he without a doubt took care of N700m for the PDP amid the last presidential race yet included that the gathering still owed him some cash.
He had said, "I let them know (EFCC) who got what: that we required cash for transportation; assembly of our kin; some of them that needed to leave Benin to their surveying units in the rustic zones, and that the state administrator of the gathering worked out a sensible spending plan.
"What's more, that when we took a gander at what they brought and what we had at the top of the priority list, it turned out to be clear that the N700m would not be sufficient. Our pioneer volunteered to compensate for any shortfall, which he brought from his home."
The EFCC has flame broiled around 16 previous governors and clergymen over the affirmed N23bn Diezani trick.
Some of them incorporated the prompt past Governor of Kebbi State, Saidu Dakin Garin; previous Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State; previous Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State; previous Governor Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno State; previous Governor James Ngilari of Adamawa State; a previous Governor of Zamfara State, Mamuda Shinkafi; a previous Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke; and a previous Minister of State for Finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda.
Amid the race, every state was said to have gotten in any event N450m from the asset, which was taken care of by priests or governors who were individuals from the PDP.
A few states, be that as it may, got more than N450m.
In the mean time, the EFCC on Monday summoned one Jules Suinner under the steady gaze of a Federal High Court in Lagos for affirmed cybercrime and false mimic.
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