APC Presidential Council Drags Atiku, ICPC, EFCC To Court, Seeks Arrest Of PDP Candidate For Alleged Misappropriation Of Public Funds
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, on behalf of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council has dragged former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar before an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
Keyamo is seeking an order of the court to arrest and investigate Atiku over bank accounts used as “Special Purpose Vehicles” to secretly divert and misappropriate public funds between 1999 and 2007.
In the Suit marked No: FHC/ABJ/CS/84/2023, which SaharaReporters sighted on Friday, Festus Keyamo, SAN is listed as Plaintiff while, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Code Of Conduct Bureau, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission were listed as Defendants 1 to 4.
The suit commenced with writ of summons as Keyamo, who is also the spokesperson of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, sought among others seven reliefs to arrest and investigate Atiku Abubakar.
Keyamo who took to his Twitter handle to announce the filing of the suit against Atiku, wrote: “#ATIKUGATE: following the expiration of my 72-hour ultimatum, I have proceeded to the Federal High Court, Abuja suing Atiku, CCB, ICPC & EFCC and asking for invitation/arrest and investigation of Atiku over the SPV saga. I have a rich history of such battles & I am not stopping.”
The Plaintiff claims against the Defendants as follows: “A DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the 1st Defendant 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 the 1st Defendant served as Vice President of Nigeria.
“A DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the 1st Defendant is under a legal obligation to submit himself to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants for thorough investigation in connection with 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 the 1st Defendant served as Vice President of Nigeria.
“A DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants are under a legal obligation to invite and/or arrest, investigate and (if found wanting) prosecute the 1st Defendant in respect of information available to the 1st Defendant 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 “Special Purpose Vehicles” to secretly divert and misappropriate public funds between 1999 and 2007 when the 1st Defendant served as Vice President of Nigeria.
“A MANDATORY ORDER of this Honourable Court compelling the 1st Defendant 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 the 1st Defendant served as Vice President of Nigeria.
“A MANDATORY ORDER of this Honourable Court compelling the 1st Defendant to submit himself to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants for thorough investigation in connection with 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 the 1st Defendant served as Vice President of Nigeria.
“A MANDATORY ORDER of this Honourable Court compelling the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants to invite and/or arrest, investigate and (if found wanting) prosecute the 1st Defendant in respect of information available to the 1st Defendant 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 “Special Purpose Vehicles” to secretly divert and misappropriate public funds between 1999 and 2007 when the 1st Defendant served as Vice President of Nigeria.
“SUCH FURTHER ORDER OR OTHER ORDERS that this Honourable Court may make in the circumstance of this case.”
Meanwhile, no date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.
