Let EFCC Probe Your Wealth If You Are Clean, Adebanjo Tells Akande, Tinubu

….Says Tinubu Didn’t Build My Lekki House

The Leader of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has debunked the claim that he pressurized Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to build his house in Lekki for him.

Former Osun State Governor, Chief Bisi Akande, who is a political ally of Tinubu had at his book launch claimed that Adebanjo pressurised Tinubu to build the Lekki house for him.

The 93-year-old Afenifere leader said he had expected Tinubu to debunk Akande’s ” malicious falsehood” since he was present at the book launch of the former governor who he described as Tinubu’s Man Friday.

The nonagenarian Afenifere leader explained in a text of his press briefing on Thursday that he sold his former house, and other property and also took a loan form GTB to finance the building of his Lekki house. He challenged the Economic Finance and Crime Commission to investigate his claims.

Adebanjo who also claimed that Akande’s house in Ibadan was built for him by the contractor who constructed the Osun State Secretariat Complex in Osogbo when he was the governor said Tinubu built houses for Akande in Ila Orangun and outside the country.

The Afenifere leader also challenged Tinubu to disclose his source of wealth, saying both Akande and Tinubu should invite the EFCC to probe their sources of wealth just like he had done.

Adebanjo said, ” There has been a lot of pressure on me not to react to Chief Bisi Akande’s tantrums*, he is a neophyte, a beneficiary of a struggle he never took part in.

“I have been urged to keep to the adage not to ‘Answer a fool less you reduce yourself to his level, but there is also an adage that says, ‘Answer a fool less he thinks he is wise.’

“A lot has been said in the press and the social media to demolish tantrums. But I owe a duty to myself and to put the record straight for posterity about the big lie that Bola Tinubu built my house in Lekki for me.

“I therefore deny categorically that my house at Lekki was built with my resources through the sale of 3 developed properties, loan from GTBank and the sale of undeveloped landed property given me by my late leader Chief Obafemi Awolowo of blessed memory.

“It is alleged that Chief Bisi Akande’s building at Ila-Orogun, which I understand is more than double in expanse of my house in Lekki and some other properties he has in Lagos and abroad were financed by Bola Tinubu.

” His house in Ibadan was also alleged to have been built by the contractor that built the secretariat in Oshogbo, when he was the Governor of Osun State.

“I hereby challenge Chief Bisi Akande to clear the air by disclosing the source of financing these properties as I have done above.
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“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the great philanthropist should also disclose the source of his wealth with which he bankrolled the elections of APC in the Southwest and that of General Muhammad Buhari and his various properties in Lagos.

“He should also authorize the EFCC to verify such details as I have done above.”