Interesting! I Will Not Return Any Money Because It Is Not Dasuki Money… Falae Tells EFCC

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Chief
Olu Falae, while speaking in Abuja on Monday through the National Publicity
Secretary of the SDP at a press conference organised on his behalf has said he
owes EFCC no money and so, he won’t be returning any money to them.

The EFCC had earlier asked that all those who have collected
money in association with the diverted $2.1bn arms fund should return it or face
trial but Falae says, the money he collected on behalf of his party was from a
former Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony
Anenih, and PDP and not from the office of the former National Security
Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), meant for the purchase of arms to fight
Boko Haram in the North-East.

Falae who spoke through Dr. Abdulahmed Isiaq said;

“In terms of refund of money, I want to say here that those
people who are refunding money are those who got their money directly from the
arms fund. Our funds did not come from the arms deal; our funds came from an
electoral alliance with the PDP and we knew that the PDP had a fund-raising
committee that gathered billions of naira and the PDP had been in government
for 16 years. Continue…

“So, with that, we knew that the PDP had the capacity to
fund the alliance that was formed with them by the SDP.

“You don’t postulate what you don’t have on the ground, you
can’t build on a non-foundation.

“We, as a political party, knew that the PDP was a capable
hand in the electoral alliance which we entered into. And we equally knew that
the PDP had a fund-raising dinner, where it generated over N20bn. So, whether
the money came from Col. Sambo Dasuki or his office, is what we don’t know and
it is left for them to ask Chief Tony Anenih to explain.

“We knew that the PDP had been ruling Nigeria for 16 years.
So, this was the basis for our electoral alliance with them. We can’t refund
any money to anybody because the money we got as a party came because of the
alliance we had with the PDP and we have an agreement note for this alliance.

“If it is possible that the money Chief Anenih gave us was
from the arms deal, it is left for them to ask Chief Anenih to clarify. As far
as we know, we did not have any dealing with Dasuki. Our office did not ever
have anything to do with the office or person of the National Security Adviser,
Col. Sambo Dasuki.”

He therefore asked the Federal Government to hold Anenih and
the PDP responsible for the source of the money rather than the SDP. He
insisted that SDP would not return any money to the government coffers, since
the money it got was neither from Dasuki nor the ONSA.