N200 Million Fraud: Gbenga Daniel Must Defend Himself – Court

The immediate past governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has been told by an Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta that he must defend himself of the allegations of fraud amounting to N200 million.

The former governor who served between 2003 and 2011 had been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 32-count charge bordering on misappropriation of funds to the tune of over N200 million, criminal breach of trust and abuse of office.

He had pleaded not guilty and made a no case submission when the case last came up for hearing in 2012.

At the resumed hearing of the case before Justice Olarenwaju Mabekoje, the judge who discharged him on 14 of the charges, however, asked him to defend himself on 18 of the counts preferred against him. Justice Mabekoje adjourned further hearing in the case to July 4, 5, 2019

Daniel lately served as campaign manager for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign but raised eyebrows everywhere when just less than a month after the election declaration announced his resignation from Atiku’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. There were allegations that he was about to jump ship to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC but he subsequently came out to deny the claim saying that there were pressures on him to do so.

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