A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Dr Garus Gololo has threatened legal actions if calls to suspend the Minister of Interior, Mr Olubumi Tunji-Ojo over the alleged N483.1m fraud is not heeded.
Gololo, while addressing newsmen in Abuja, said that the fraud allegedly committed in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction that saw the Minister, Ms Betta Edu suspended robs-off on Tunji-Ojo.
He said that the interior minister was said to be involved in the misappropriation of over N483.1 million consultation fees to his own companies.
The chieftain threatened to head to court to seek justice and to ensure that all those involved are punished by the law.
He expressed displeasure over the delayed in issuing an invitation and suspension of the the Tuni-Ojo and other on their allayed involvement in the whole saga.
According to the former Army general, the Federal Government, should have extended same to the Minister of Interior so that Nigerians would cheer the Presidency for its political will.
“What I am after here is that once they have suspended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, Tunji Ojo the Minister of Interior also should have been suspended because they indicted him of N438.1 million for consultancy fees to numerous companies allegedly linked to him.
“How can you be a consultant, with your own companies while holding public office. He has to be suspended alongside those involved to make it complete.
“The fact, is that he has been indicted, he has to leave, that is just the truth; he just has to go with Betta Edu pending when the investigation be completed and of course we know that no one remains in office while undergoing probe.
“Any other person involved must be suspended, because when here about this there are many people involved in this must go on suspension, even if is a member of the APC.
“We campaigned for Mr. President as members of same party, we made promises that we are going to help Nigerians out of poverty but it is now from poverty alleviation to personal alleviation,” he said.
The chieftain, however, acknowledged as distinguished, Tunji-Ojo’s reforms in the Ministry of Interior.
Gololo, a former member of the APC Board of Trustees said that the party should flush cartels operating around the corridor of power in Abuja.
However, Tunji-Ojo had in a statement, distanced himself from the accusation saying that he had resigned from the company since 2019 before joining the House of a Representatives.