Last week was very, very eventful for former Osun State Deputy Governor, Senator Iyiola Omisore. He had visited here and there and also did this and that. But of course, oblivious of the danger lurking around. And only hours and minutes away as he retired to bed on Saturday night.
Sunday, July 3, 2016, he had concluded, would also run its normal course. Not knowing that arrest was staring him in the face. And again, that the next few days, weeks or even months will see him being clamped in detention.
YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine, in fact, learnt that as early as possible, the EFCC operatives had taken over his No. 1, Kainji Crescent, off Lake Chad Street, Maitama, Abuja home. Assured that there’s no escaping route left unmanned and also that everything was under control, they struck.
With Omisore now in their firm grip, they embarked on a thorough search of his home. And at the end of the exercise, they were said to have recovered N1 million cash and another $21,000. They equally stumbled on some documents which they went away with, alongside Iyi, like Omisore’s admirers, fondly address him.
The engineer turned politician who has for years continued to eye the Osun Government House is alleged to have been arrested over his involvement in the N4.7 billion misappropriated by the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, rtd.
He allegedly got N3.1 billion from the money to execute his failed August 9, 2014 Osun governorship election on the ticket of PDP, losing to APC’s Rauf Aregbesola. Repeatedly, and vehemently too, he has continued to deny this. In fact, he even slammed EFCC with a N10 billion suit over the allegation.
But shedding more light on their claim, the EFCC said Omisore had the money domiciled in the Diamond Bank account of Sylvan McNamara and operated by Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s sons, Babajide and Gbolahan.
He allegedly collected the money in four trenches and between July and August 2014:
“On July 9, 2014, N150m was paid into the bank account of Sawanara at First Bank. On August 1, 2014, N300m was paid into Sawanara Limited.
“On August 8, 2014, about N160m was paid into the bank account of Fimex Gilt Limited domiciled at UBA. On the day of the election, August 9, 2014, N350m was paid into the First Bank account of Metropolitan Consortium.”
The bank accounts as well as others traced to the hugely controversial politician who once won a senatorial election while still in prison have all been frozen by the EFCC.
His interrogation by the EFCC operatives will be next.