The invasion of the residence of Alhaji Babalele Abdullahi by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was a plan by the Federal Government to make me mortgage my mandate and congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari.
This is the declaration of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Abdullahi is the finance director of Atiku’s group of companies.
Atiku who made the declaration in Abuja on Saturday in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr. Paul Ibe, however vowed that he would not be forced to submission in any way by the plan.
According to him, no amount of blackmail would make him mortgage his mandate.
He explained Abdullahi’s encounter with the operatives of the EFCC: “The EFCC agents numbering about two dozens came in two regular vehicles, an 18-seater Toyota bus (registration Abuja CS 522 RSH) and a Hilux van.
“They came with a search warrant to search the house and office of Babalele and found nothing incriminating
“They then proceeded to his office at Oakland Centre in Maitama and found nothing incriminating there.
“However, they took away some documents of landed properties. Not done, the EFCC officials stormed his Wuse residence where they again found nothing incriminating after the search.
“Afterwards, Babalele was taken away to the EFCC office in Wuse to make a statement alongside Mr. Lawan Ayuba.
“It was gathered that the petition relied upon to invade the residence and office of Babalele was authored by a brother of the wife of President Buhari.
Atiku was defeated by President Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in a keenly contested presidential election.
He rejected the results of the election, saying the exercise was fraught with irregularities.
He has vowed to challenge Buhari’s victory in court.
