“I don’t declare what is owned with others,”, he told Premium Times.

“If my family owns something I won’t declare it. I didn’t declare anything I jointly owed with anyone.”

He said the offshore entity is the holding company for most of his assets and that the business structure he adapted was to enable him to avoid excessive taxation.

“I am sure you too will not like to pay inheritance tax if you can avoid it,” he said.

Ezewuzie01:
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. But I am pretty sure he knew. If he can know all the fake statistics from China, what is so hard to know about the CCB guidelines? Besides, he took his time to carefully select those offshore locations where he thought that those assets cannot be found. Little did he know that well trained investigative journalists are not in short supply. He got caught simple.

Whitecoal711:
Way to go,but what about the report on Dandollar,orji uzo kalu,tinubu,atiku halibut,obj $16b nepa contract,diazeni just to name a few,Nigeria pls keep record, prosperity will surely judge all human deed,it will take time but it will surely come

budaatum:


This is worrying. A governor, while in office, sets up secret companies in tax havens and has foreign accounts contrary to Nigeria Laws and you say he has done absolutely nothing wrong!

I think Peter Obi and Tinubu should be your next president. You deserve them! Perhaps R Kelly can be your women's minister or something too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXxkNaRkp8

Ezewuzie01:
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. But I am pretty sure he knew. If he can know all the fake statistics from China, what is so hard to know about the CCB guidelines? Besides, he took his time to carefully select those offshore locations where he thought that those assets cannot be found. Little did he know that well trained investigative journalists are not in short supply. He got caught simple.

Obidon1:
tinubu tell us his own companies

mrvitalis:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with what peter obi did ... absolutely nothing wrong with it

There has always been campaign to attack peter obi's image ....they can't find anything on the man

mrvitalis:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with what peter obi did ... absolutely nothing wrong with it

There has always been campaign to attack peter obi's image ....they can't find anything on the man

Mace0lane:
Thank God it is not Yoruba Western media that is exposing the foolish fraudulent criminal the clown Peter Obi is. Don't you morons campaign n attack other politicians in Nigeria why should the criminal Peter Obi be an exception because he is Igbo. Who doesn't even know Atiku can only work with criminal as VC.

obailala:
Did he break any law? Which law did he break?

Jimasun:

Code of conduct

Soso990240:
They have always been looking for a way to pull this man down, because there is no other past Governor in Nigeria that is as neat and credible as him

mrvitalis:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with what peter obi did ... absolutely nothing wrong with it

There has always been campaign to attack peter obi's image ....they can't find anything on the man

obailala:
The brutal honesty in these responses will throw any detractor off balance.

wink2015:


YOU HAVE FINISHED MR PETER OBI.

The "SAINT FROM THE SOUTH EAST"

If governor Peter Obi SWEET TALK YOU with how he save money for Anambra state and manage the economy of Anmabra state to prosperity YOUR HEAD GO GROW DADA.

PANDORA BOX has done a lot of damage to his political and economic reputation.

The sweet talker from the East.

Jonathan39:
Ooh, I was thinking he stole from Anambra. Go and sleep, you no get yarn

Jimasun:

Code of conduct

Mace0lane:
Apologize won't do he should rot in jail for his criminal act or clear is name the way the likes of Tinubu Orji clear their names. No fool should launder the criminal Peter Obi to Nigerians again, we are now wise. You can take to the east to loot your destiny again

TheGoodJoe:


It might not serve as a case of looting but hiding assets before entering government. A lot of politicians are skeptical of revealing assets due to political enemies.

Unless we have the proper timeline of when the shell company got established, I don't think we should rush and tag him a looter of public funds.

mrvitalis:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with what peter obi did ... absolutely nothing wrong with it

There has always been campaign to attack peter obi's image ....they can't find anything on the man

Jimasun:

"All properties/assets acquired OUTSIDE NIGERIAN MUST be stated clearly with the value of the said assets in the currency of the country where the property is situated."


Please don't defend what is nonsense.
He flouted the law.

Jonathan39:
Tinubu cleared his name?

GeneralPula:
Obi, a Vice-Presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2019 general elections, set up and operated businesses abroad in tax and secrecy havens; and breached Nigerian laws while he was a serving governor by failing to declare these assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB.

A chronic crook..

TheGoodJoe:


Hiding funds and evading tax does not show integrity.

PeaceJoyLove:

Peter is a fraud.

Look at the useless man who wants to rule Nigeria. He didn't know, yet, he contested. Something that was well made known

Peter is a fraud.

jozee8:
I've been seeing Peter Obi with 19 others, and I am beginning to wonder if the others don't have names!

Jimasun:

Until it is Tinubu or a northerner, then false declaration of assets will be a crime.

Ezewuzie01:
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. But I am pretty sure he knew. If he can know all the fake statistics from China, what is so hard to know about the CCB guidelines? Besides, he took his time to carefully select those offshore locations where he thought that those assets cannot be found. Little did he know that well trained investigative journalists are not in short supply. He got caught simple.

VULCAN:
He was/is the largest shareholder of Fidelity Bank before he became governor.

He was a billionaire long before he became a politician.

So it will be difficult to smear him successfully with this.

Unlike some others who became billionaires two or three years AFTER getting into public office

peacekante:


You must be out of your mind. Why not declare the part you own in the joint business?

SMH