Chief Olu Falae Did Not Deliver #dasukigate N100million To Party- SDP

Officials of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has claimed ignorance of the N100m given to their party to gather support for the erstwhile president, Goodluck Jonathan during last year presidential election...


The party's National Chairman, Chief Olu Falae, has admitted that he collected N100 million from the former chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

A Senior Official of SDP, who was also the National Publicity Secretary Abdul Isia claimed Olu Falae only announced a donation of N5Million from an undisclosed PDP Chieftain.

Isia stated that Fale's admission of a receiving N100M from PDP came as a 'rude shock'

It was reliably gathered that Falae, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) got N100 million from the N260 million given to Anenih by the office of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).

Falae while speaking with News Telegraph said that, the money was purely an interparty affair between the PDP and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which he is the National Chairman. The former presidential candidate said the money was given to the SDP to effectively campaign for the PDP in the 2015 presidential election. According to him, in the build up to the 2015 general elections, the PDP and SDP entered into working agreement.

His words: “In the build up to the presidential election, the PDP approached the SDP which I chaired. The then ruling party solicited for our support in order for President Goodluck Jonathan to win the March 28 presidential election. “Anenih related with me as the chairman of the PDP BoT and I did same as the SDP National Chairman. He wrote to me as PDP BoT chairman and I wrote back as SDP National Chairman stating conditions/terms for the alliance.

I have the record. “It is true that N100 million was given to my party to endorse and work for the Jonathan’s candidature in the 2015 election. We used the money for that purpose and we effectively campaigned for the PDP since we did not have presidential candidate in the election. The money was not for me.

“Thank God I’m a retired civil servant. I have all the documents to prove all that transpired between the two parties.” The former Finance Minister stated that there was no way he could know that the money was from arms fund. “With all the money PDP has and having spent 16 years in power, how would I know that the money was from the arms deal? No reference was made to the arms deal. So, they should not bring me into the arms issue.