Stella Oduah, a former Minister of Aviation and senator
(PDP-Anambra North), on Monday denied reports that the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission was on her trail for allegedly stashing nearly N2.5 billion
in a bank account she set up using the identity of her domestic aide.
Ms. Oduah, who said she received the reports while
relaxing in her country home in Anambra State, challenged those who published
the allegations to publish proofs that substantiate her guilt.
News website, SaharaReporters, had on Sunday reported
EFCC sources as revealing to it how Ms. Oduah used the name and pictures of the
unnamed maid to set up the account.
“Senator Oduah apparently opened the account with her
housemaid’s name, image, and details without the housemaid knowing about it,”
Sahara Reporters quoted one of the EFCC sources as saying.
The account, the report said, was still active as at last
week.
But in a rebuttal her office sent to Premium Times around
9 a.m. today, Ms. Oduah said the reports were “totally false, baseless and at
best the imagination of the platform.”
In the statement, signed by Francisca Onyeisi, head of
communications, Ms. Oduah said that if the reports were true, she would have
been arrested long before now, especially at a time when the EFCC is “freezing
accounts and going after opposition governors who enjoy same level of immunity
as the president.”
The former minister, therefore, urged her supporters and
the general public to ignore the reports, saying she had “made a mark in oil
and gas and Agricultural businesses before joining politics.”
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