Nigeria’s self-acclaimed messiah and immediate past president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was recently a guest of the London Metropolitan Police investigating the case of money laundry involving former Governor James Ibori.
Obasanjo, Nigeria Today Online says, was implicated by Ibori who linked his corruption allegation case to the former president’s failed third term plan.
Ibori is not the first to make such connection with Obasanjo’s failed tenure elongation bid. Two former governors, Saminu Turaki and Joshua Dariye, had drawn similar links.
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Monday October 19, 2007
James Ibori implicates Obasanjo in London interrogation
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is reported to have been quizzed for over two hours last week by the London Metropolitan Police, as part of their investigation of James Ibori, the former governor of Delta State. Ibori is currently being investigated in the UK on charges of corruption. Sources at the Metroplolitan Police in London said Obasanjo was interviewed and was only released after he gave a written statement. Ibori had implicated the former president in a statement he had earlier made to the police, in which he made reference to the massive funding of the third term project. Although it is still unclear what the failed third term project had to do with Ibori's current investigation in the UK, it is however not the first time a former governor will confess to massively funding the ill-fated tenure elongation bid of Obasanjo.
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