How I shared N63m from Anenih –Yakassai

ELDER statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, Wednesday, explained how the N63 million allegedly handed over to him by the former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT), Chief Tony An­enih, was spent.

While disputing that the money was meant to cam­paign for former president Goodluck Jonathan, Yakassai said the money disbursed to him and eight other northern prominent leaders, was meant to ensure peace and na­tional unity, during and after the 2015 presidential elec­tion in the North.

According to him, a group of nine eminent Nigerians were picked by former president to campaign for peace across the 19 northern states, adding that they moved round the northern states without asking anybody to vote for Mr. A or Mr. B.”

He listed the members of the eminent group to include former Commissioner of Finance in Plateau State, Chief John Makiliki, former Commissioner of Education in Kaduna State, Alhaji Suleiman Lawal, former Legal Adviser to Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Bitrus Gwanga, former deputy governor of old Benue State, Alhaji Sule Heiyaji, and former Minister of Foreign Af­fairs and former Ambassador to Pakistan, Ambassador Mohammed Anka.

His words: “In the first place, the money was not given to me personally. It was given to a team on the request of former president Goodluck Jonathan for the team to go round the 19 northern states and meet the traditional rul­ers on an appeal mission over the presidential election.”