Dele Belgore, senior advocate of
Nigeria (SAN), says he gave a former commissioner of police in Kwara state N10
million in cash during the 2015 general election.
Testifying before the federal
high court in Lagos on Monday, Belgore gave the name of the former commissioner
as Salihu Garba.
Belgore, the governorship
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2015 election, is
standing trial alongside Abubakar Suleiman, a former minister of national
planning, on a 9-count charge bordering alleged N450 million money laundering.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) accused Belgore and Suleiman of collecting N450 million from
Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, to compromise
the election.
The duo were said to have acted
contrary to the provisions of the money laundering (prohibition) act, which
they denied.
Belgore, however, denied knowing
Diezani, saying that fund emanated from the. headquarters of the Jonathan
campaign organisation in Abuja
During cross examination by
Rotimi Oyedepo, EFCC’s counsel, Belgore admitted that the money he gave to the
commissioner of police was from the N450m.
The senior lawyer stated that he
didn’t share the money to PDP agents in the state in order to influence the
election.
“I went to the bank on the 26th
of March; the election was on the 28th of March, 2015. It was humanly
impossible for the two of us (himself and Suleiman) to have successfully
distributed the money across the state in two days,” Belgore said.
Rilwan Aikawa, the presiding
judge, adjourned the case till May 15.
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