ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE BRIBERY ACCUSATION OF AISHA BUHARI BY FAYOSE

Fayose’s comment sparked a recollection of how Mr Jefferson, between 2000 and 2005, used his position as member of the U.S. House of Representatives to offer illegal services to private companies for cash rewards.


Premium Times reports that Jefferson and his family, according to US authorities, received about $367,500 through through his firm, ANJ Group, for services rendered to iGate, an American broadband technology provider.

An indigenous firm, Netlink Digital Television, had signed a joint venture with iGate to set up digital satellite TV and broadband Internet services in the country. NDTV was owned by Oyewole Fasawe, a PDP chieftain at the time.

Mr. Jefferson was contracted to help promote iGate and NDTV partnership in Nigeria.

Following a lengthy trial, Mr. Jefferson was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Although Mr. Fasawe was arrested in 2005 by the EFCC, he was never convicted.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar were also said to be a person of interest in the allegations.

A final report released by the EFCC on June 22, 2006 about the bribery scandal also contained Mrs. Buhari’s Citizens Bank account statements and how she transferred funds to Mr. Jefferson.

A 2007 New York Times’ article detailed how Mrs. Buhari told an acquaintance in Washington that she was a daughter of a former Nigerian head of state and a friend of Mr. Jefferson.

“As the pair struck up a conversation and subsequently became friends, Mr. Assiba, then a security guard, said she told him that her father was the former military ruler of Nigeria, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari

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Premium Times