F-SARS
Arrests Ajimobi's Ex-Aide For Withholding N18.5m Meant For Election.
Godwin
Obode, former Special Assistant on Youth and Student Matters to Abiola Ajimobi,
Governor of Oyo State, has been arrested. SR learnt that Obode was picked up by
men of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) some days ago following
his refusal to return the N18.5million he received from the All Progressives
Congress (APC) in Oyo State for the general election but did not spend.
Obode
worked for Ajimobi in his first term as Governor but subsequently resigned with
the explanation that he wanted to relocate abroad.
He
later went to work for Teslim Folarin, a two-term PDP senator who contested
(and lost) the 2015 Oyo State governorship election on PDP’s platform before
joining the APC in 2017.
However,
towards the 2019 election when APC was fearing a bad performance, the party
engaged Obode to run the election in Okeogun and Oyo town.
“Ajimobi
gave him money to mobilise students as security cover for the election,” a
senior party figure who asked not to be named, told SR.
“They
gave him N18.5million for the election, but they later found out that he didn’t
do anything; he was just having fun, drinking, on election day. They were even
calling him to get field reports on election day, but they couldn’t get him.
"The
problem now is that despite the best efforts of the Governor to recoup the
money, Obode doesn’t want to return it.”
When
SARS officials searched his house last week, they found the bag with which the
N18.5million was delivered to him. The bag still contained a leftover sum of
N9million.
Obodo
was then arrested but later released, though he still has to report at the
F-SARS office regularly.
SR
learnt the “security cover” in the brief to Obode was actually “election
violence”. According to a party source, it was “to disrupt voting at polling
units where the process doesn’t favour the APC”.
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