{"id":12031,"date":"2024-01-15T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T06:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/n585m-fraud-tinubu-wont-spare-betta-edu-others-presidency\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T06:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T06:04:59","slug":"n585m-fraud-tinubu-wont-spare-betta-edu-others-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/n585m-fraud-tinubu-wont-spare-betta-edu-others-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"N585m fraud: Tinubu won\u2019t spare Betta Edu, others \u2013 Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Presidency has reiterated that President Bola Tinubu would not spare any of his appointees indicted by the ongoing probe of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, said there must be no sacred cow in the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Monday, Tinubu had suspended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu for allegedly ordering the payment of over N585.2 million to a private account.<\/p>\n<p>A leaked memo indicated that she approved the payment of N585 million into the private account of a civil servant.<\/p>\n<p>Ngelale while appearing on TVC\u2019s Politics on Sunday, said: \u201cThe President has given full instruction to the EFCC chairman (Ola Olukoyede) to not only conduct a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way the President would direct such an investigation is to say that nobody, no name, should be left out if they are found wanting in the situation. No sacred cows at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnywhere this investigation takes the EFCC and other investigating authorities, that is where the investigation must go and the President will take action accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>N585m fraud: Tinubu won\u2019t spare Betta Edu, others \u2013 Presidency<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has reiterated that President Bola Tinubu would not spare any of his appointees indicted by the ongoing probe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4960,8939,15,466],"tags":[4962,4961,1615,8355,180,26],"class_list":["post-12031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betta-edu","category-n585m-fraud","category-news","category-tinubu","tag-betta","tag-edu","tag-fraud","tag-n585m","tag-news","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}