Arthur Eze has allegedly entered into an agreement to bankroll all the
financial needs of Dr. Tony Nwoye, an All Progressive Congress, APC,
Governorship aspirant in the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship
election in exchange for ten commissionership slot and 30 per cent of the
State Internally Generated Revenue, according to a document obtained by
Pointblanknews.com.According to the document which could not be independently authenticated,
should Nwoye emerges Governor, Chief Eze would have the absolute powers to
run the affairs of the State with the Governor acting as a mere figure
head.
The documents indicated that the agreement was entered on December 14,
2016 at the residence of Chief Arthur Eze in Enugu where Nwoye had gone to
seek for financial assistance to prosecute his campaign.
Arthur Eze is notorious for sponsoring politicians for various positions
and having them enter into an agreement with him. He is also notorious for
paying bribes to Judges to remove politicians he is against
Recently, Eze allegedly paid $4million in bribes to High Court Judges,
Appeal Court Judges and some senior Supreme Court Justices to remove
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu whom he vowed to “teach a lesson” for refusing to
take his calls, Pointblanknews.com investigation had revealed.
The huge sums were allegedly delivered through cronies of Arthur Eze to
Hon. Adamu Mohammed Bulkachuwa, a former member of the House of
Representatives and husband of Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, President of the
Court of Appeal.
Pointblanknews.com gathered that Hon. Bulkachuwa allegedly collected
$1million and transmitted $200,000.00 to his wife, Justice Bulkachuwa
while $800,000.00 was shared among four members of the Court of Appeal.
Justice Ibrahim Auta, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court allegedly
handled the “booty” on behalf of the “beneficiaries” of that cadre of the
bench.
Pointblanknews.com sources who pleaded anonymity, because of the
sensitivity of the scandal said Justice Okon Abang who delivered the
earlier Judgement removing Governor Ikpeazu, got paid an eye popping
$200,000 from Justice Auta.
Apart from the justices of the court of Appeal, some Federal High Court
Judges were also paid undisclosed amounts, while the largesse also
extended to some Supreme Court justices.
A Source confirmed that three very influential Supreme Court Justices
collected $500,000.00 each.
The revelations on how Arthur and certain powerful individuals got the
money delivered into the hands of Justices, would remain a slight on the
seriousness of President Muhammadu Buhari to push back on judicial
corruption and individual impunity, a serious manifestations of
institutional decay in Nigeria.
Chief Arthur Eze threw himself into the self-succession agenda of the late
military dictator of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha.
Like many other close associates of Abacha from the North, West and other
parts of the country, he was handed the mandate of nominating candidates
that would become the governors of the different state in the Eastern part
of Nigeria. Prior to the political race that was midwifed through what was
described by the late lawyer and politician, Chief Bola Ige, as the “five
leprous fingers”, the five rubber stamp political parties of the time,
Arthur Eze, becoming increasingly egocentric, took on the task of
sponsoring military officers, who would later become, state military
administrators. Through them, he was awarded phony contracts, the proceeds
diverted.
In the present dispensation, he had sought to continue as the political
godfather of Governor Victor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state. He had
committed to donating a total sum of one hundred million naira towards the
Governor’s election but he was only able to come up with about N10million,
pointblanknews.com gathered.
Pointblanknews.com sources said that Arthur Eze had thought that he would
use the opportunity of financial contributions to pocket Ikpeazu. But when
Ikpeazu could not be compromised, the businessman felt his thought of
personally commandeering the funds of Abia would also perish.
Once Alex Otti of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, whom Arthur
Eze had supported lost out, he found a new ally in Uche Ogah.
Arthur Eze, according to Pointblanknews.com investigation executed a major
move by commissioning a team of lawyers who studied an original suit
instituted by Barrister Friday Nwosu, a lawyer seeking to technically undo
the political works of Governor Ikpeazu on the ground of tendering false
tax clearance.
The courts where the papers by Mr. Nwosu were filed deliberately
frustrated the process. However, the man who stood close to play the
willing servant for the ploy of Arthur Eze, Uche Ogah sprang out of the
blues and used the papers from Barrister Nwosu to dig the ground under the
foot of Ikpeazu in the law court.
Eze and Nwoye could not be reached as at the time of finalizing this report.
