For some months now, former minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro has been out of Nigeria.
Insiders squealed that the politician simply took to his heels after PDP lost the presidential election. Our sources added that he won’t be coming back to Nigeria soon because of some issues concerning election money.
We were told that a huge amount of money was given to him to win the guber election in Lagos and Osun states by the PDP. We were further informed that he allegedly sat on the funds and refused to disburse it to key party strategists to mobilise voters and this explained why the PDP lost Lagos and Osun States to APC in the guber and presidential elections.
We gathered that former President Goodluck Jonathan had to relocate to Lagos before the election to personally fund the party, PDP.
The insiders added that apart from the PDP election money, Obanikoro is also afraid that he might be arrested by President Buhari over his role in Dasukigate as the probe of Arms deal can not be completed without touching Ministry of Defence where he was a minister.
Now, Obanikoro has gone into hiding in overseas and watching events in Nigeria with keen interest.