OBASANJO NAILED FAROUK LAWAN AFTER THE LAW MAKERS DARED HIM ON HIS OUTBURST THAT THEY WERE MANY CRIMINALS IN THERE

It is now confirmed that it  was former President Olusegun Obasanjo who blew the lid on Hon Farouk Lawan over the alleged $620,000 bribe. In his usual blunt manner, OBJ had described members of the House as knaves and vampires in the countdown to the

publication of the fuel probe report, provoking the anger of House Reps who dismissed the allegation as another outlandish claim from a former President with a loose tongue.

Many  LAWMAKERS were clean but unaware of the cryptic dealings by Lawan Farouk with the oil cabal they dared BABA  to name names and he did ..

House reps even went out of their way to castigate Baba in very strong and sometimes insultive language, telling Nigerians in no uncertain terms that they were no knaves as OBJ had alleged. Ostensibly to take their anger home to the former President, a House delegation led by Speaker Hon Aminu Tambuwal, paid a courtesy visit to Obasanjo in his farm in Ota.

Sources  at Otta farm said that a well restrained Obasanjo patiently listened to the Speaker convey the lawmakers’ reservations over the criminal label on them…and then opened the putrid can of worms on his august visitor.

The former President told Tambuwal that he appeared not privy to a bribery demand running into millions of dollars in relation to the then on-going probe of the fuel subsidy regime in the House.

It was a shell-shocked Tambuwal who swiftly scampered back to Abuja to confront the Chairman, House Ad-Hoc Committee on the fuel subsidy probe, Farouk Lawan, with the allegation.

At first, Lawan reportedly denied the allegation but froze in shock when Tambuwal confronted him with the details of what transpired at the address where security agents mascarading as officials of Zenon Oil and Gas allegedly gave him $500,000 (about N96 million) in marked notes.

It was, however, learnt that shortly after the bribe scandal became public, Lawan attempted to persuade the House leadership to provide him a soft-landing. Sources said Lawan on learning that security agencies were in possession of the video clips containing the alleged bribery incident, sought for a way out of the mess and opted to publicly tender the “marked dollar bills” as exhibit at one of the plenary sittings of the House.

 However, the plot failed when Tambuwal, and some principal officers of the chamber confronted Lawan and demanded to know why it took him about six weeks to disclose that an oil marketer attempted to bribe him.