As pressure continues to mount on President Goodluck Jonathan to re-open the Halliburton bribe scandal, indications have emerged that the money was funnelled into the PDP’s political machinery towards the 2007 elections.
This startling revelation was made by one of the suspects fingered in the mess even as he maintained that the money was not meant to bribe anybody.
The source revealed that one top government functionary was approached by a former head of state to assist the PDP in sourcing for money for campaign in 2007.
Consequently, the source disclosed that Halliburton, which was soliciting for the award of the multi-million naira contract for the construction of the second phase of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), project in Rivers State, was approached by Julius Berger Nigeria (JBN) Plc, which on its own part, bluntly refused to contribute to the campaign funds of the ruling party.
The source added that because of Halliburton’s determination to get the contract, it later released the money through JBN. Bodunde Adeyemi, an aide to then President Olusegun Obasanjo, was picked as the go-between but a former chairman of the party (name withheld), has since denied ever receiving such money, insisting he wasn’t in the know of what was going on.
Following the US government’s insistence that all those fingered in the Halliburton scandal must be made to face the wrath of the law, President Goodluck Jonathan is at cross-roads as those involved, are claiming that it was through the Halliburton money that he came to power with his predecessor, Late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
Source: Daily Post
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