Garba Shehu: I didn’t buy $800k from CBN, vows to sue PDP

Adebayo Onanuga

March 26, 2016

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Malam Garba Shehu: I didn't buy $800k form CBN — Malam Garba Shehu: I didn’t buy $800k form CBN

Malam Garba Shehu, Senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari has vehemently denied an accusation by the Peoples Democratic Party that he abused his office to get a special $800,000 FOREX allocation from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

According to the accusers he got the money at the rate of N185 and then sold it at N350. The accusers went further to allege that he had also been allocated a choice land by the Minister of the Federal capital Territory, in Abuja.

In a statement via his Twitter account, Shehu vehemently denied the accusation on forex allocation and vowed to sue the people behind the rumour.

1. It is a lie by @PDPNigeria to say I bought USD worth 800,000 from the CBN. I had only two FOREX purchases since coming into government.

— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) March 26, 2016

2. Amounting to Eight Thousand Dollars (USD 8,000) sent to my daughter and nephews through UBA. This is verifiable.

— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) March 26, 2016

3. I'm not a FOREX trader. The day I choose to start trading in FOREX I will resign as a Presidential spokesman.

— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) March 26, 2016

4. If I know the coward and psychopath behind the official @PDPNigeria handle, I will launch a defamation suit against him/her.

— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) March 26, 2016

5. And I will claim money in millions as damages!

— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) March 26, 2016

Shehu was not the only person accused by the PDP Twitter handle.

The President’s wife, Aisha was also accused of getting a $22million dollar allocation on the instruction of CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele.

Also accused was Interior Minister, Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau, who was accused of getting an allocation of $6million, via a Bureau de Change.

Malam Abba Kyari, the president’s chief of staff was accused of getting the lowest allocation of $400,000 from the same Emefiele.

A Bureau De Change company linked with General Danbazzau got $6m forex from CBN at N185 and sold at N362. #CorruptionAndBuhari

— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) March 26, 2016

First Lady Aisha Buhari got $22m forex from CBN on the instructions of Emefiele and the company sold at N362 same day. #CorruptionAndBuhari

— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) March 26, 2016

Abba Kyari also got $400,000 at N185 and sold for N340.

— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) March 26, 2016

One response to “Garba Shehu: I didn’t buy $800k from CBN, vows to sue PDP”

Burning Spear
March 26, 2016

Truth is bitter———-at least there is semblace of truth in the entire story–having admittted that he actually sent money to his daughter and nephew abroad—-thieves