Senator Buhari Is Being Blackmailed, GTB is Owing Us — Abadat MD, Henry Okosun Says
Senator Buhari Is Being Blackmailed, GTB is Owing Us — Abadat MD, Henry Okosun Says.
The Managing Director of Abadat Ventures, a company owned by Senator AbdulFatai Buhari of Oyo North, Mr Henry Okosun has reacted to the reported seizure of some of the senator’s landed properties, situated in Abuja, by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON.
According to Okosun, “AMCON was wrong, neither Senator Buhari nor his company sought any loan.
Okosun further stated that, “it was an attempt to blackmail his boss as what really happened was a tripartite agreement between Abadat, Guaranty Trust Bank and Peugeot entered into in 2007.
“I am privy to this case from the beginning. Abadat, Peugeot and GTB entered into a tripartite agreement whereby Abadat as a dealer with Peugeot would collect a vehicle on credit and GTB would guarantee the credit for one month at 18 per cent. Abadat did not take a loan from GTB as widely reported”, he reiterated.
“And when we discovered that GTB was clandestinely charging us 30 per cent, we requested for our statements which they refused to give to us in 2009. When we eventually got the statements through AMCON ‘s intervention, we discovered a lot of foul play through the forensic audit that was carried out. GTB is the one owing Abadat according to the audit report. And we went to court and the case is still in court with AMCON and GTB still sending their lawyers anytime there is a court sitting. What AMCON did was a blackmail against the senator,” Okosun explained.
Also speaking, lawyer to the Ogbomoso-born politician, Ahmed Raji, SAN, said his client’s assets have not been taken over by AMCON.
“It is not correct that AMCON has taken over Senator Buhari’s assets in Abuja. There is a subsisting suit on the matter since 2013 and no judgement has been rendered. Self help is not allowed just as suppression of facts is deprecated in our judicial system. The court will very shortly reaffirm its sacred authority over all persons and authorities. We are all under the law,” Raji affirmed.
