Some people say Nigerians are forgetful but unforgiving. But why are we so forgetful? Why must we listen to a corrupt presidential aide? why must a corrupt presidential aide stir the masses to revolt? is this the man selling gej and comparing him to Jesus christ?

I don't get it why a corrupt man like this will still have an active role in Gej's cabinet. This is unheard of even in a fourth world country.

[size=18pt]Jonathan’s Attack Dog, Doyin Okupe In Multi-Million Naira Contract Scam…Quizzed By EFCC, Moves To Kill Case[/size]


Had President Goodluck Jonathan run a security check on his newly appointed senior special assistant on public affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, he would probably not have offered him a position in his government. Why? iReports-ng.com has just gathered that Okupe who has now been labelled as an attack dog in the public sphere is enmeshed in a multi-million naira contract fraud over which he has been under investigation by Nigeria’s anti-graft police, the EFCC.

Investigations by iReports-ng.com have so far revealed that Okupe has since his recent appointment been moving round and deploying presidential influence to stop the EFCC from going ahead with the case or pressing criminal charges against him. What is the crime Okupe has been so desperate to cover up in the last three weeks? A competent source in EFCC told iReports-ng.com that the presidential aide had peddled his influence during the administration of his former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo to obtain a contract of about N300 million in Benue state during the regime of Senator George Akume, collected a mobilisation sum of about N200 million and abandoned the project since then.

It was further learnt that on the basis of this, the current governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam petitioned the EFCC last year. “After our initial diligent findings on the allegations contained in the petition, we were able to confirm that the man (Okupe ) actually collected the money and disappeared obviously as we were told to go and contest election in Ogun state. We eventually invited him for interrogation and his statements were obtained in our Lagos office last year after which he was granted administrative bail. So, he was still enjoying the bail with his case file already referred to our legal department for legal advice and possible charges when he was appointed an aide to the president”, a top EFCC official told iReports-ng.com in Abuja today.

On whether the anti-graft agency would still go ahead to press charges against Okupe, the source said, “I am not in a position to determine that, only the chairman can give the final directive on that.” It was also learnt that Governor Suswam who has been putting pressure on the EFCC to recover his state funds from Okupe and prosecute him for criminal diversion of state funds has since Okupe’s appointment gone soft on his push.

Efforts to get Okupe react to the scandal however proved abortive as he failed to pick calls made to his mobile telephone number on Saturday morning. It is yet to be seen whether the EFCC will also go silent on the case. Okupe has of late picked on critics of President Jonathan especially Nasir El-Rufai, former minister of the FCT and Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos.

source

[size=18pt]Contract Scam: Doyin Okupe Owns Up, Begins Settlement Talks With Benue Govt[/size]


After series of denials that he was being investigated by the EFCC for allegedly defrauding Benue and Imo state governments, senior special assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, Doyin Okupe has finally opened up and in fact opted for a settlement with the Benue state government.

iReports-ng.com had exclusively reported the story that Mr Okupe is enmeshed in a multi-million naira contract scam. While the presidential spokesman was making frantic efforts to deny the report, fresh facts emerged that he was not only being investigated by the EFCC over the Benue contract scam but that he had actually being detained for four weeks in the agency’s cell over a similar case in Imo state.

Okupe who has obviously come under pressures especially from the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN which last week called for his sack, decided to open up to some of his friends who he approached to help launch damage control campaigns in the media.

According to one of his friends who spoke to iReports-ng.com on the condition of anonymity, Okupe has not only repented of denying his face-off with the law over contract scams, he has gone ahead to brief a Lagos based lawyer, Yemi Gbonegun to represent him in a settlement arrangement he is negotiating with the Benue state government over the contract scam.

A lawyer in Gbonegun’s chambers confirmed the development to iReports-ng.com. The lawyer said the presidential aide was indeed awarded a rural road contract in Benue during the administration of Mr George Akume through Okupe’s company, Messrs Value Trust Investment Ltd.

Okupe’s decision to enter into negotiations with the Benue state government through an arbitration, a close source in the presidency revealed, was to block the EFCC which had initially denied the existence of such a case, from pressing criminal charges against him. The ACN had warned EFCC against cover up while the agency’s chairman Ibrahim Lamorde had during the week obtained an updated status reports on the two cases against Okupe to brief Mr Jonathan should he be called upon to brief the president on the raging controversy.

iReports-ng.com also gathered that in the coming days, many public relations consultants already hired and paid millions of naira by Mr Okupe will hit newspaper houses with reports that will paint Okupe as an asset to President Jonathan rather than a liabilty. His image minders will also attempt to portray the contract scam as a civil case.

To sustain that, they will sell to the public through the media that disputes arose over the contract because there was a change of baton between Akume who awarded the contract to Okupe and incumbent Governor Gabriel Suswam who seeks to recover the millions of Benue funds Okupe bolted with.

source

reshare. Nigerians need to know the type of people that speaks for GEJ.

GEJ till 2019!!!

GEJ till 2019!!

temitemi1:
GEJ till 2019!!

ewhoooo!

Is that your defense? keep on promoting [size=18pt]CORRUPTION[/size]? Tufiakwa!

Vote out Corruption! Nigerians know better, we are not chickens.

Only the very corrupt and their agents support the continuation of this corrupt administration.

#Change 2015.

What is wrong with you OP "It is mere stealing it's not corruption" from Doyin Okupe

temitemi1:
GEJ till 2019!!!

Even when your are looking at such fraudulent act in the Presidency, you are still typing this.

seges:
What is wrong with you OP "It is mere stealing it's not corruption" from Doyin Okupe

ewhoooo i forgot

Stealing is not Corruption - GEJ

temitemi1:
GEJ till 2019!!!

SECONDED.

Only the corrupt promotes corruption, "you can't expect the corrupt to end or fight corruption"

temitemi1:
GEJ till 2019!!

ABSOLUTELY AND UNRESERVEDLY SECONDED.
GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN TILL 2019.

Few weeks more.....Shame on this government.

SweetJoystick:
Only the corrupt promotes corruption, "you can't expect the corrupt to end or fight corruption"

WORD!

So in essence you mean these guys are Corruption personified?

OLADD:

ABSOLUTELY AND UNRESERVEDLY SECONDED.
GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN TILL 2019.

temitemi1:
GEJ till 2019!!

Because its only a hardened corrupt mind that would want corruption to continue. right?

diluminati:


WORD!

So in essence you mean these guys are Corruption personified?





Because its only a hardened corrupt mind that would want corruption to continue. right?

Definitely, from their utterances they will do worse if given any public office to hold hence them seeing no wrong with what their role models are doing/have done

SweetJoystick:

Definitely, from their utterances they will do worse if given any public office to hold hence them seeing no wrong with what their role models are doing/have done

nice observation.

then what about doyin corruption okupe still in gej's government directing affairs?

diluminati:


nice observation.

then what about doyin corruption okupe still in gej's government directing affairs?

Birds of a feather they say flock together

Can the post make it to Nairaland Frontpage?

egift:
Can the post make it to Nairaland Frontpage?

that would be appreciated by Nigerians

cc: Seun

How can Buhari's change is inevitable march belittle itself by discussing a nonentity like Okupe.Its just 44days to go and his type wud b looking for borders to escape thru wen d results start trickling in.
I laughed when Oyegun said buhari won't probe past leaders.Till d victory is got first.Then d oyeguns of dis world wud b reminded that buhari's victory was premised partly on d need to nip corruption,that his victory is not just that of d party but of d determined nigerian electorate who said no to corruption.Even if they are not jailed,but we wud pressurise buhari to get d likes of okupe,d Ubas of capitol oil,d Adamu Muazus and d patience jonathan's to refund all illicit funds they have stolen off us because we need these funds for developmental purposes.

doctokwus:
How can Buhari's change is inevitable march belittle itself by discussing a nonentity like Okupe.Its just 44days to go and his type wud b looking for borders to escape thru wen d results start trickling in.
I laughed when Oyegun said buhari won't probe past leaders.Till d victory is got first.Then d oyeguns of dis world wud b reminded that buhari's victory was premised partly on d need to nip corruption,that his victory is not just that of d party but of d determined nigerian electorate who said no to corruption.Even if they are not jailed,but we wud pressurise buhari to get d likes of okupe,d Ubas of capitol oil,d Adamu Muazus and d patience jonathan's to refund all illicit funds they have stolen off us because we need these funds for developmental purposes.

I concur, Okupe is too small a brat to talk about. I'm just showing people the type of person that speaks for the clueless president