Dr Cairo Ojougboh, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Vice-Chairman (South-South), has alleged threat to his life by the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
He said he had become target of assassins since he exposed the alleged fraud involving Senator Anyim in the Abuja Centenary City project.
The PDP chieftain insisted that the multi-trillion centenary city project was “an elaborate scam”.
Ojougboh has already written a petition addressed to the Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Solomon Arase, entitled “Letter of Complaints to Threat to Life, Intimidation, Blackmail, by Senator Anyim Pius Anyim”.
Solicitors to Ojougboh, Oludotun Sowemimo & Associates, are signatories to the letter.
Ojuogboh had dismissed the claim that the centenary city, which has a 10-year completion period, was a public private partnership arrangement.
The centenary city in Abuja was conceived by the Jonathan administration as part of Nigeria’s centenary anniversary.
The N2.976tn project, which occupies a landmass of 1,200 hectares, is to be modeled after modern cities like Dubai, Shenzhen, Monaco and Singapore as well as serve as political and economic tool for securing foreign investment.
DAILY POST recalls that Ojuogboh told reporters in Abuja last weekend that the land was allotted to “one man, who went to incorporate the centenary city as a free zone”.
Dr. Ojougboh said he had personally written a letter to then President Jonathan on several occasions concerning the centenary city telling him it was wrong to create a free zone in the city centre.
He recalled that he also warned Jonathan that the issue of centenary city has made some Nigerians to believe that the PDP is a corrupt party.
Ojuogboh said: “Go and Find out. The centenary city is owned by one man and when he come he will start calling names; Abdulsalam Abubakar, this and that. If you go to the Corporate Affairs Commission, you will see the owner of the centenary city.
“There are two companies owned by one man who was in charge of the office of the SGF. And of course, personally, I severally wrote a letter to Mr. President telling him that this thing is wrong, that you cannot create a free zone in the centre of the city.
“That if you live in a free zone, you need visa to go in and out, that if you make the centenary city a free zone, you are going to deprive Nigerian industries of income and employment. In Dubai where you have free zones, the land belongs to the government.
“Today, the certificate of occupancy of the so-called free zone is in bank fold that is what they used to be getting money to be building the free zones. It is such things that people begin to tag PDP as a corrupt party.
“Somebody within that office called the SGF had impunity to tell Nigerians lies that the centenary city is a public private partnership arrangement; I mean it is a lie. In fact, huge chunk of land was given to only one man and it didn’t stop there. He now went to incorporate the entity as a free zone. Where have you ever seen it in this world? It is crime personified.
“But we are going to re-build the party and if we don’t tell ourselves the truth, we won’t be able to rebuild the party. I have told you why the PDP lost the election. But as a PDP member, I am telling you that PDP is not corrupt. But what I know is the issue of the centenary city which I know that, that place is a blueprint for corruption and that entity is corrupt”.
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