Exclusive: Unveiling The North-Central Governor Who Withdrew N60bn Cash

The nation was on Monday gripped with the revelation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC that a serving governor in the North-Central is under investigation after allegedly withdrawing N60 billion in cash from the bank.

The withdrawals were done within the last six years.

The disclosure was made by the chairman of the EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa in the latest edition of the commission’s in-house magazine “EFCC Alert.”

Bawa said, “We are not setting out to be engaging with people on the pages of newspapers or press conferences. We are working hard trying to see what we can do behind the scenes [to eradicate corruption]. And very soon, Nigerians are going to see some of the things that we are doing.

“I can tell you for free that the new Department of Intelligence that we have created is working wonders. They have come up with a lot of intelligence. In one of them, a governor in a North-Central state within the last six years (one individual) has withdrawn over N60 billion in cash.”

Remarkably, Bawa did not name the governor under the watch of the commission putting all six governors in the North Central on the spotlight.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the six governors in the North-Central are Sam Ortom, Benue;  Yahaya Bello, Kogi; Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, Kwara; Abdullahi Sule, Nasarawa; Sani Bello, Niger and Simon Lalong, Plateau.

Of the six governors, Abdulrazaq and Sule of Kwara and Nasarwa States respectively are first term governors putting them out of consideration.

That leaves Ortom, Yahaya Bello, Sani Bello and Lalong in view.

The EFCC chairman while making the revelation said that the commission would not be engaging people on the pages of newspapers, an inkling that would have pointed to Kogi which through its commissioner of information, Kingsley Fanwo has repeatedly dragged the EFCC over the N19.3 billion Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN intervention fund that the commission had said that the Kogi State Government fixed in a commercial bank.

This could have suggested Kogi. However, the Kogi State governor is technically not up to six years having come into office in early 2016. The Kogi State governor would be six years in office in a month’s time.

So, if the exactitude of six years of cash withdrawals of N60 billion is taken into consideration, the Kogi governor would be excluded despite the media war between the state and the EFCC.

That now puts the other three governors, that is Lalong, Ortom and Sani Bello in view.

However, if the duration of withdrawals is put in approximation it redirects the finger pointing and puts the Kogi governor in view.

Willy-nilly, Nigerians would be watching out to know the identity of the North Central governor whether by exactitude of time or approximation of same.

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