Fani-Kayode in $2m election monitoring controversy

The Director, Media and Publicity, Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is immersed in a controversy over alleged $2 million situation offices for the Peoples Democratic Party across the 36 states and the FCT.

Femi Fani-Kayode was alleged to have applied for $2 million to open situation offices for pre and post election monitoring for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) across the country. The situation office/room was meant to monitor the elections nationwide to ensure that the PDP was not in any way shortchanged in the electioneering process.

According to a reliable source, Fani-Kayode procured the service of a middleman who is highly connected to the Presidency who facilitated the deal and the sum of $1.5 million was approved for the project.

Peoples Daily reliably gathered that no such office was opened in any part of the country even as the general elections have come and gone. And the middleman who facilitated the contract has understandably not got his cut and now threatening a showdown with Fani-Kayode.

Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation under former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government was also alleged to have bought a brand new Range Rover 2014 model for his girlfriend, names withheld, at a whooping cost of $70,000, equivalent to over N13m also allegedly from the proceeds of the contract.

Contacted on phone yesterday for his response, Chief Fani Kayode did not pick his call. But a text message sent to him was responded to by a man who called to introduce himself as Jude Ndukwe, SA to Fani-Kayode.

“We received your text message. The situation room project never came through us. We were not involved in it. We never received a Kobo for any situation room project,” he said while a voice was heard dictating to him from the background.

Ndukwe said further: “I am sure you know who is involved in the project but you want to beam your searchlight on us. If we bought a car, is that news? You can write what you want. We will meet you in court,” he threatened.

Afterwards, another confidant of Fani-Kayode called our reporter to say that information available to him suggested that the said project was handled by Legacy House, another campaign arm of the PDP located in Abuja.

According to the confidant who pleaded anonymity, he worked closely with Fani-Kayode but that he was not aware such a project passed though him.