Diezani Alison-Madueke, Former minister Petroleum is currently under investigation for allegedly trying to rig last year’s elections, a spokesman for the country’s anti-corruption agency said on Tuesday.
Wilson Uwujaren, of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), told AFP,
“We are investigating a case involving the former petroleum minister Mrs Alison-Madueke in respect of some millions of dollars she is accused of giving to INEC officials to influence the 2015 elections,”.
Rumor has it that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) received $115 million in oil money to influence the polls in favour of then president Goodluck Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Some suspects, including senior INEC officials, local oil company executives and the head of a commercial bank through which the bribes were alleged to have been paid, have been arrested.
The EFCC has also frozen the bank accounts of those implicated, Uwujaren added.
The 55-year-old former oil minister has been repeatedly targeted by a range of corruption claims, which she has flatly denied.
In October 2015 she was arrested in London, where she was undergoing breast cancer treatment, as part of a British probe into international corruption and money laundering.
She has also been accused of wasting millions of dollars on private jets while many Nigerians live below the poverty line.
Alison-Madueke was in charge of the sector when there were claims the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) failed to remit $20 billion in oil revenue to the central bank.
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