EFCC FIRES BACK! The Aisha Buhari in Jefferson scandal is NOT Buhari's wife!

The Aisha Buhari named in the bribery scandal involving a U.S.
Congressman, Williams Jefferson, is not the Aisha that is President
Muhammadu Buhari's wife, a former chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, has told PREMIUM TIMES.
"I can tell you authoritatively that the Aisha
Buhari named in that case is not President
Buhari's wife," Mr. Lamorde said when contactedTuesday morning.
"It is another Aisha Buhari entirely."
"I was the director of operations at the EFCC at
the time so I know about the case very well. I can
tell you that it is not her (President Buhari's wife). That much we
established."

These statements were made as an answer to the governor of
Ekiti state- Governor Fayose Ayodele after he (maybe ignorantly)
claimed yesterday that the wife of the president Aisha Buhari was
mentioned as being part of a scandal involving a former US
congressman.
Mr. Lamorde who was the EFCC chairman prior to the time he was
removed by the current president has insisted that Aisha Buhari the
wife of President Buhari has nothing to do with william Jefferson's
scandal. It would be remembered that just yesterday, Fayose while
reacting to the freezing of his Zenith bank accounts by EFCC had also
accused Buhari of being corrupt. In his words: "Buhari himself is not
an angel." He also added: "The estate he built in Abuja is known to
us. His
wife was indicted over the Halliburton Scandal. When that American,
Jefferson, was being
sentenced, the President's wife was mentioned as
having wired $170,000 to Jefferson. Her name
was on page 25 of the sentencing of Jefferson".
The media director of the governor even went ahead to distributed
copies of the court document. Which on its page 22 stated clearly
that Jefferson had been the recepient of the sum of $170,000 that was
transferred from the account of one Aisha Buhari. The US at that time
sought the help of the Nigerian authorities in investigating the
identity of the Aisha Buhari. And Lamorde who was in charge of the
investigation then, insists that the Aisha mentioned isn't the wife of
any Nigerian president.
If we should go by the supposed truth in Lamorde's statement;Mr.
Fayose I think you should take a lesson on "the proper way to witch
hunt your enemies" and not going about lighting up fires of false
rumours.
-Ebube Maduike