Zainab Yar’Adua and Husband, Governor Dakingari of Zamfara State

It is déjà vu all over, traveling the familiar road, in Nigeria with very damaging accusation of influence peddling and acts unbecoming being leveled against Nigeria’s first lady, Hajia Turai Murau Yar’Adua and her daughter Hajia, Zainab Nasamu Dakingari. They are being accused of taking money running into several millions of naira to facilitate access to Nigeria’s President, Mr. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Specifically, a member of the first family, Hajia Zainab Dakingari, wife of the Governor of Kebbi State, Governor Usman Saidu Nasamu Dakingari, recently developed boastful complex such that she often tells close friends “I am now swimming in Billions, and all I have to do is to assist any of these contract seeking money bags to see my father.”

Sources close to the first family told Pointblanknews.com that Hajia Zainab, a former student of University of Maiduguri, (UNIMAID) is the hottest needles eye through which any camel must pass in order to get the listening ears and possible contract approval from President Yar’Adua.

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The usually impeccable source sighted the recent troubles of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Charles Soludo and his indictment on the ground of withdrawal of $480 million from CBN to purchase equity in the African Finance Corporation (AFC); it took the powerful intervention of certain individuals to make Zainab to “talk with her father, President Yar’Adua” and since then, nothing has been heard of the recommendation of the panel on the possible disciplinary measure against Soludo.

The panel of inquiry had recommended that Soludo should step aside. The intervention of Zainab firmly ensured that the CBN Governor remains in office.

Pointblanknews.com gathered that both Zainab and her mother, the first Lady, Turai Umaru Yar’Adua, allegedly keep confidential list of possible prices, which they give to whoever wants to “play ball.” The daughter is the usual preferred channel, but whenever she becomes unavailable like presently when she is in the United States allegedly to have first baby, potential favor seekers gravitate towards the first lady.

Purportedly, Zainab and her mother are said to be inseparably close in respect of deals having to do with crude oil in Nigeria. She is said to have all the inside workings of the first family’s crude oil runs.

Some of her close associates quoted her as recently saying “I have made billions.”

Members of successive first families in Nigeria often lack the discretion on keeping low profile and restraining themselves in sharing the limelight with the daily official works and engagements of their parents