Michael Achimugu, a former media aide to Atiku Abubakar who has leveled a series of weighty allegations against the former vice president, says he’s prepared to testify against his former boss before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) provided that the right thing was done.
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Achimugu reacted to the CCB’s invitation of lawyer, Festus Keyamo, over his petition to the bureau seeking the probe of Atiku for alleged diversion of public funds through “special purpose vehicles” while he was vice-president between 1999 and 2007.
The CCB had asked Keyamo, who doubles as labour minister and spokesperson for the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to come along with “one Michael Achimugu” whose allegations were referenced in Keyamo’s petition against Atiku.
Atiku was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25, 2023 presidential election.
In a letter signed by its director in charge of investigations, Gwimi S.P, the CCB asked Keyamo to appear before it on April 21, 2023 to adopt his petition requesting the Bureau to “arrest, invite, interrogate and prosecute” Atiku for the alleged offences.
But reacting on Friday, Achimugu said it was condescending for the CCB to address him as “one Michael Achimugu” as if he was a nobody.
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He further faulted the Bureau for asking Keyamo to bring him along on the day fixed for adoption of the petition, saying he’s “nobody’s toy”.
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