Ex-Spokeman Asks CCB To Investigate Atiku, Send Him To US To Face Charges

• The CCB has been directed to investigate Atiku and extradite him to the United States to face charges.

• …Kassim also urged the US to press extradition charges against Abubakar, so he could defend himself in a law court

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Kassim Afegbua, a former spokesman for Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, has called on the Code of Conduct Bureau to investigate Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar in connection with a US Congress corruption report against him.

In a recent statement, Afegbua claimed that Atiku was ‘unfit’ to run for President because the Congress report indicted him on criminal charges.

He also urged the United States to file extradition charges against Abubakar so that he could defend himself in a court of law.

“Rather than running for re-election under the PDP banner in 2023, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would be wise to visit the United States of America to resolve the lingering corruption allegations that have landed Senator Jefferson in prison.”

An investigation into him and his ‘former’ wife Jennifer turned up a slew of shady transactions bordering on money laundering and other financial malfeasance.”

“The onerous thing for him to do was to visit the United States of America to answer to those weighty allegations that were the result of the thorough investigations conducted by the United States Congress.

In the 2019 presidential campaigns, we were inundated with several news reports, demanding that our party candidate should visit America. When the request became so compelling, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was reportedly granted a waiver by the United States Consular Office in Lagos to enable him to visit the United States with the then Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.”

“After that visit till date, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has not been able to visit America again ostensibly on the stretch of those weighty allegations which have not been dispensed with. The entire report of the US Congress copiously indicted Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on issues concerning money laundering.”

“It will make judicious sense if the United States Government is able to treat this pending matter once and for all, by way of extraditing the former Vice President to answer those lingering queries on financial impropriety.”

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“As an alumnus of the Les Aspin School of Government and Good Governance in Washington DC, where I was exposed to the fundamentals of anti-corruption studies in 2004 and was sponsored by the US Government, I am patriotically disturbed that those who should be cooling off in jail are still walking the streets as free men and even attempting to run for the highest office in the land,” he said.