Keystone Bank Limited has denied charges that President Muhammadu Buhari has a stake in the bank.
The bank, on Tuesday, expressed, “The reality of the responsibility for Bank by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria was never in uncertainty. On March 23, 2017, AMCON stripped its responsibility for Bank after fruitful offering that pursued fair treatment.
“We affirm that the Sigma Golf-Riverbank Consortium possesses 100 percent of Keystone Bank. From the records accessible to us which are undeniable at the Corporate Affairs Commission, the center financial specialists (Sigma Golf Nigeria Limited and Riverbank Investment Resources Limited) have no association with either President Muhammadu Buhari or Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, as might be broadly hypothesized.”
The presidential hopeful of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, as of late approached the suitable specialists to earnestly initiate a test to unwind those he said may be the shrouded faces behind the new proprietorship structure of multibillion-naira telecoms mammoth, Etisalat (presently 9mobile) Nigeria and additionally Keystone Bank.
In an announcement issued in Abuja and marked by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the previous Vice-President said such a test was vital in perspective of the reports that individuals from Buhari’s family currently possessed generous offers in Etisalat (9mobile) Nigeria which had an expected $2bn (about N727bn at 360 for each dollar) of its assessed $20bn worldwide total assets.
Atiku likewise communicated stun at reports from what he depicted as irreproachable sources that the main family currently played enormous in the country’s monetary division in the wake of procuring mouth-watering partakes in Keystone Bank with aggregate resources of $1.916bn (comparable to N307.5bn) and in addition buying about N3bn worth of offers in the new Pakistani Islamic Bank.
It might interest you to know that the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has asked relevant agencies to investigate President Muhammadu Buhari’s family’s alleged ownership of shares in the Etisalat Nigeria and Keystone Bank.
Atiku, in a statement yesterday by his Special Assistant to Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said: “Such a probe was necessary in view of reports that members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s family now own substantial share in Etisalat Nigeria which has an estimated $2bn of its estimated $20bn global net worth.”
Atiku said he was shocked by “reports from unimpeachable sources that the first family now plays big in the nation’s financial sector after acquiring mouth-watering shares in Keystone Bank with total assets of $1.916bn as well as purchasing about ₦3bn worth of shares in the new Pakistani Islamic Bank.
“I know that last week was turbulent for President Buhari and I apologize for adding to his woes, but he is insisting on the myth that he is spotless and anti-corrupt. If this is found to be true, this scandal would break every rule of corporate and public governance, since this will be the first time members of the first family will be openly involved in a once-in-a-lifetime deal that would make them all richer beyond their wildest dreams.”
Atiku, however, advised President Buhari “to shun the use of state resources and machinery for the upcoming 2019 presidential poll.
“The other day, a man who scored 15,424,921 votes to win the 2015 general election was reported to have been nominated by 14 million APC members at the presidential primaries for 2019. Now, over 12 million farmers have donated to his campaign. Are they indirectly spewing out outrageous figures of people they intend to claim voted for them in the coming elections? Could that be why the President was flashing an occult double four hand signal that has gone viral? What did the hand signal mean? Does it mean that the President has jettisoned the idea of a free and fair election and telling Nigerians that no matter how they vote, he will return for a second term of four years?
“In any case, if the farmers who just took a loan through the borrowers anchor programme and have not liquidated the facility can donate this huge sum or any sum for that matter, it means the ‘Association of widows and children of all those slain by Boko Haram and herdsmen will donate N5billion to the Buhari campaign. In fact, the 23.1 million youth who lost their jobs between 2016 till date will donate about N12billion to the Buhari campaign.
“Assuming but not even conceding that such a huge sum of money was donated to President Buhari by Nigerian farmers as his handlers would want Nigerians to believe, wouldn’t such donation be in contravention of Section 91 (9) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) which says no individual or other entity shall donate more than N1m to an aspirant or a candidate,” he said.
