{"id":35241,"date":"2015-01-22T20:36:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=35241"},"modified":"2015-01-22T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T19:36:11","slug":"pdp-says-ambode-picked-cover-tinubu-fashola-looting-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/pdp-says-ambode-picked-cover-tinubu-fashola-looting-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Says Ambode Picked To Cover Tinubu, Fashola Looting In Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lagos State PDP has declared the APC governorship candidate in Lagos<\/p>\n<p>State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, as an accomplice who aided the criminal<br \/>\nconversion of funds and property belonging to the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Party claimed in a statement signed by its spokesman, Mr. Taofeek Gani<br \/>\nthat for sometime, it had been investigating and collating the major<br \/>\nfrauds in the state government and its preliminary report has already<br \/>\nindicted Ambode as the actual person who covered up most of the<br \/>\nembezzlement and breach of public trust in the government of Bola Tinubu<br \/>\nand until he retired as accountant general in 2012 under very<br \/>\ncontroversial circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>According to PDP the details of the overwhelming evidence indicting Ambode<br \/>\nin the several offences will be released to the public soon.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the PDP says the areas it beamed it&#8217;s searchlight included<br \/>\namongst others: The creation and operations of Alpha Beta; the diversion<br \/>\nof civil servants allowances and bonuses; the diversion of monies meant<br \/>\nfor the failed ENRON electrification project; the diversion of 65% of<br \/>\nfunds approved for sports festival; diversion of LG funds released by<br \/>\nPresident Obasanjo and Yaradua.<\/p>\n<p>Others include collection of N9Billion from LASU grants; stealing from the<br \/>\nroads and bridges purportedly constructed; diversion of funds in the<br \/>\nabandoned light rail project; diversion of funds in the Lekki Free Trade<br \/>\nZone project; collection of the profits realisable in the BRT\/LAGBUS<br \/>\nproject; conversion of the Capital and Profits in the then ECONET wireless<br \/>\nshares; stealing of monies meant for Pensions.<br \/>\nAlso, diversion of funds in the pool of the Lagos State Security trust<br \/>\nFund; conversion of two Helicopter Choppers now in Niger Delta region;<br \/>\nstealing of lagos Yacht; collection of international loans using LASG as<br \/>\nfront; take over of LASPOTECH premises and turning to personal Estate;<br \/>\ntake over of 5 LG council secretariats; take over of the states nursing<br \/>\nschool; indeed there are many take over of private landed property across<br \/>\nthe state in the last fifteen years.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the PDP has impressed on lagosians to reject Ambode and his<br \/>\nParty as a vote for Ambode will mean that these frauds will be covered up.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lagos State PDP has declared the APC governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, as an accomplice who aided the criminal conversion of funds and property belonging to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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