Michael Achimugu, ex-aide of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who leaked a dirty phone conversation between them has advanced reasons for recording their talks.
Achimugu had opened the eyes of the public to their phone conversation in which Atiku is heard explaining how he perpetrated fraud during his time as Vice-President to the former who was then one of his (VP’s) spin-doctors.
“You see, what happened was when we came into the office, I advised the president against open corruption. I told him ‘Give me three people you trust and I will prepare three companies for which they will be the subscribers or rather the directors.’
“So if there is any contract that we will give they will act as consultants and then they are given a fee and that fee is what we will now use to fund the party instead of engaging openly. So he gave me the name of (Oyewole) Fasawe, Andy Uba, and this late politician from Borno State whom he said died in a plane crash to serve as fronts. I now incorporated companies and put them as subscribers. One of the companies was Marine Float, ” Atiku narrated in a viral audio, Achimugu made public.
The whistleblower in an interview he granted TVC on Wednesday, said he was fond of recording his discussions with Atiku on phone, adding that his habit was born out of alleged difficulty in getting through to the ex-VP, so he contrived the idea so as to have something to fall back on in case he needed clarification on issues his ex-boss discussed with him.
His word, “At first, it was a father-son relationship. We were quite close. Sometimes he would ask me to come over to Dubai to meet with him. I have facilitated appointments of other media aides for him. I have secured admissions to schools for him. I have carried out a lot of assignments, some of which I will not be able to speak about on television.
“As I stated in my affidavit, my boss wasn’t the kind of man I could call randomly because he was always busy and most times his phone is not with him, so initially I had to record those calls so that I could play back instructions without having to revert to him and bother his schedule.”
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