{"id":60573,"date":"2017-12-18T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=60573"},"modified":"2017-12-18T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:19:24","slug":"daura-ikpeazu-olanipekun-share-50-million-bribe-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/daura-ikpeazu-olanipekun-share-50-million-bribe-money\/","title":{"rendered":"DAURA, IKPEAZU, OLANIPEKUN SHARE $50 MILLION BRIBE MONEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a quarrel between Governor Okezie Ikpeazu , his lawyer, Wole<br \/>\nOlanipekun (SAN), and\u00a0 his godfather, Senator Theodore Orji over a $50<br \/>\nmillion to bribe the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami<br \/>\nand Justices of the Supreme Court, Pointblanknews.com gathered that<br \/>\ninstead of returning the cash to the Abia state treasury, the governor ,<br \/>\nDirector General of the Department of State Security, Musa Lawal Daura and<br \/>\nOlanipekun, has shared the $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>The desperation in the camp of the governor and his godfather is now<br \/>\nalarming and disheartening while Abia state is being raped, plundered and<br \/>\nlaid prostrate. Senator Orji\u2019s associates said he has repeatedly warned<br \/>\nIkpeazu to stop using Abia money to bribe the AGF and Supreme Court Judges<br \/>\nover his case with Sir\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1753771112\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Nwosu. According to the sources, people have<br \/>\nbeen confronting the Senator over Ikpeazu\u2019s poor performance; he has<br \/>\ncontinued to claim that he was deceived into supporting Ikpeazu as Nwosu<br \/>\nwas the consensus candidate handed over to him by elders of the Ukwa\/Ngwa<br \/>\nclan.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/pointblanknews.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1513688523242000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHOJbMycst2HmVlVn11dFf8r0lKqA\">pointblanknews.com<\/a>\u00a0that the trio chose to dare Senator Orji<br \/>\nand share the money among themselves, leaving Abia unable to pay arrears<br \/>\nof salaries which are being owed between 5 to 10 months. Senator Orji who<br \/>\nis having a cold war with his godson, is said have warned Olanipekun to<br \/>\nstop being used as a conduit pipe to bribe the Supreme Court and the AGF<br \/>\nover the case of tax forgery and submission of false information to INEC<br \/>\nby Ikpeazu.<\/p>\n<p>In furtherance of the unholy agreement, the $50 million was said to have<br \/>\nbeen shared in the ratio of 50: 30: 20 among the governor, Daura and<br \/>\nOlanipekun who is a member of the recently inaugurated Corruption Cases<br \/>\nMonitoring Committee.<\/p>\n<p>As efforts to bribe the AGF and SupremeCourt Justices continue to hit the<br \/>\nrocks, Ikpeazu had since zoomed of to Dubai en route China and other Asia<br \/>\nCountries to seek and plan how to invest his share of the money looted<br \/>\nfrom the Abia government treasury. The huge sum comprises the entire<br \/>\nNovember 2017 Abia State allocation and other funds kept in the state<br \/>\nescrow account and converted to US Dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Daura told Pointblanknews.com that he had assured the<br \/>\ngovernor and Olanipekun that he would do all within the powers of his<br \/>\noffice to frustrate the efforts of the anti corruption agencies to pry<br \/>\ninto the matter. Daura has also introduced a powerful marabout from Mali<br \/>\nbut resident in Lafia, Nasarawa State to close the eyes of the Nigerian<br \/>\nauthorities and Abia citizens.<\/p>\n<p>There is growing tension in the Governor\u2019s camp as the Supreme Court is<br \/>\nexpected to deliver judgement on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1753771113\"><span class=\"aQJ\">January 18<\/span><\/span>. Ikpeazu\u2019s associates have<br \/>\nbeen running helter skelter to ensure he gets a favourable judgment.\u00a0 A<br \/>\nserving Commissioner in the state, Charles Ogbonnaya and an unnamed member<br \/>\nof the State House of Assembly including Mrs Victoria Akanwa, have been<br \/>\nengaged to coordinate marabouts to ensure that the governor retains his<br \/>\nposition and gets a second term in office.<\/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>After a quarrel between Governor Okezie Ikpeazu , his lawyer, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), and\u00a0 his godfather, Senator Theodore Orji over a $50 million to bribe the Attorney General of the&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":50763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60573","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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