[VIDEO] #Atikugate: Ex-aide exposes Atiku’s alleged corruption via “SPV”
Michael Achimugu, a former media assistant to Atiku, made headlines on Monday after revealing details about how his former boss, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, reportedly used fictitious businesses called “Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs)” to accept bribes and siphon public monies.
Below is the video released by the aide:
Achimugu shared an audio recording of an alleged phone call between himself and Atiku in which the former president admitted that while serving as vice president under the Olusegun Obasanjo administration between 1999 and 2007, he set up the SPVs to “carry out certain activities” in order to avoid being associated with corruption.
“What happened was when we came into office, I advised the president against open corruption. I told him to give me three people ‘you trust’ and I will prepare three companies in which they will be subscribers or rather the directors,” the PDP presidential candidate was heard saying in the tape.
Atiku acknowledged that one of those businesses was Marine Float Limited, which had earlier been accused of collecting N100 million from the N1.16 billion in ecological money that the convicted former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, had gotten in 2004.
