Subsidy fraud: My son is answerable for his actions –Arisekola

~ Alhaji Azeez Arisekola-Alao ~

 

*Quit now, ACN tells Tukur
The Ibadan-based business mogul and Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Azeez Arisekola-Alao, yesterday said that his son, Abdullahi, being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for fuel subsidy fraud was answerable for his actions.
Abdullahi, the Managing Director of Axenergy, is being tried for illegally benefitting from subsidy payment running into billions of naira.
“Abdullahi Alao is an adult and a businessman doing business like every Nigerian. He is answerable for his actions and transactions under the law of the land.
“As an adult and a true Muslim, there is no doubt that he knows what is wrong and what is right,” Arisekola-Alao said in a statement.
The younger Alao was docked at a Lagos High Court on Thursday.
Also, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, had distanced himself from the involvement of his son, Mahmud, the Managing Director of Eterna Oil and Gas, in the fuel subsidy scam.
Meanwhile, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has called on Tukur to step aside for now.
The party, in a statement issued yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said there was a moral burden on Tukur if he continued to stay in office.
The party said: “It is important to say here that the fuel subsidy scam trial will be held in two courts: the court of law and the court of public opinion. While Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is not facing any charges in the court of law over the scam, he is definitely a star suspect in the court of public opinion. That is why many Nigerians are already insinuating that nothing will come out of the trial, especially as far as his son is concerned. This is an allusion to the influence bestowed upon him by his high office.
“While we have nothing but absolute confidence in the ability of the judicial process to ensure justice, we believe that anything that can reinforce the impression of thwarted justice in the fuel subsidy scam trial should be removed. Tukur’s continued stay in office is one of such.”
The ACN noted that the continued stay in office of Tukur would have negative effect on the outcome of the investigation.