SPV Saga: CCB will invite Keyamo and launch an investigation against Atiku

Keyamo must also aid the CCB in getting whistleblower Michael Achimugu to participate in the probe.

Atiku Abubakar’s inquiry into the misappropriation of public funds when he served as vice president of Nigeria will soon get under way, according to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) (SPV).

According to a succinct declaration made by Asst. Johannes Ainetor, head of chambers of the Festus Keyamo Chambers,

The statement further revealed that the bureau had asked Mr. Festus Keyamo, the Minister of State for Labor and Employment, to present his appeal.

Keyamo must also aid the CCB in getting whistleblower Michael Achimugu to participate in the probe.

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As he has vowed to carry out, even after Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election as president-elect, Mr. Keyamo provided assurance that the fight for accountability in relation to the matter was not a campaign gimmick.

legal action to detain Atiku

Festus Keyamo, the APC’s Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson, filed a lawsuit earlier this year asking the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to detain Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate in the recently-concluded elections.

Following the expiration of his 72-hour deadline, the Independent Corrupt Practises and Other Offences Related Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) joined the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in the lawsuit.

In a letter dated January 16 and sent to the heads of the EFCC, ICPC, and CBC, Keyamo argued that Atiku should be detained and charged with violating the Code of Conduct for Public Officials, money laundering, criminal breach of trust, criminal misappropriation, and conspiracy.

After the contentious films that Michael Achimugu, a former Atiku assistant, published, Keyamo made the demand.

Achimugu accused the PDP presidential candidate of a number of things in the recordings that were made public a few weeks ago.

He had asserted that during Atiku’s tenure as vice president between 1999 and 2007, he conspired with former president Olusegun Obasanjo to defraud the nation by utilising what he called “Special Purpose Vehicles” (SPVs).

Keyamo sought a Federal High Court in Abuja to order the anti-graft organisations to look into the situation and bring Atiku to justice.