Well earlier yesterday the former governor said that he has nothing to do with the bank accounts frozen by a federal court on Tuesday over an alleged N9.9 billion fraud.
He said no account of his contained N9.9 billion let alone being frozen by the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
As reported by the EFCC, N9.9 billion was paid from the state government’s accounts into the FCMB account opened on September 17, 2018, and operated by Adewale Adesanya, the permanent secretary in the Office of the Chief of Staff to Mr Ambode.
He however said the accounts frozen by the court belong to the Lagos State Government and not him or any individual.
Read his statement below:
"The former governor was not and will never be involved in any unauthorized use of government property and resources.
“We strongly believe that after four demanding years as Chief Executive of Lagos State, Mr Ambode is entitled to some deserved rest with his family and loved ones without the unwarranted attacks on his well-earned reputation.”
“Those accounts were opened in the course of normal operations by the Lagos State Government for its administrative purposes and not for the former governor’s personal transactions as was being wrongly insinuated and have been operated to ensure smooth operations of government activities by previous and present administrations,” he said in the statement issued by his media aide, Habib Aruna.
The statement added that the former governor believed that at this time in the nation’s polity, all hands must be on the deck to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) both at the State and national levels in order to continue to deliver the dividends of democracy to Lagosians and Nigerians respectively.
Ambode served as governor between 2015 and 2019.
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