Former Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger stateFormer Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu has vowed to challenge the Federal Government for including him on the list of those it alleged to have looted the nation’s treasury, insisting that he did not loot the state treasury during his eight-year tenure.
Babangida Aliyu, in a statement he signed in Minna, capital of Niger State today, Monday, said “I wonder why the federal government should include my name in the 24 treasury looters list released again by the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.”
The former governor said that nobody had confronted him with any document that he received N1.6 billion from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki and asked the government to prove it.
He alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was doing everything possible to blackmail him because he refused to join the party.
“The APC government has embarked on calculated blackmail against my person because I refused to join the party.
“We all have our minds and what we believe in politics is a thing of the mind.
“In the orchestrated plot to tarnish my image, I am presently before the Federal High Court and a Niger High Court for the same alleged offence.
“This is to show that the government is hell bent on bringing me down but they will not succeed.”
Babangida Aliyu said that as a governor, he served the people of Niger to the best of his ability, adding: “as a Governor, I left a landmark for posterity, no amount of blackmail or character assassination can wipe me out from the minds of the people.” [myad]
