Law limits 3rd Party Donations to Political Parties. His State Chapter of the PDP had never dealt with
Companies but he had no aversion to receiving Donations from Companies, if given.
Even though he Personally did not collect the Sum of Sixty Six Million Naira, he stated that the Money
was counted in his presence and they were in N500 and N1000 Denomination Notes. He was
immediately confronted with the fact that these Denominations were introduced after Year 2001 but
he denied lying, maintaining that the Money was counted in his presence. He did not know the Source
of the Money and he did not know that the Money belonged to Plateau State Government and he could
not say what an Ecological Fund was.
He was once again referred to Page 10 of Exhibit P13A and he consistently maintained that it was
proper for his Party to have received the Sum of Sixty Six Million Naira from the Ecological Fund, as
his Party was the Party in Power. He agreed that as at that time, there were other Political Parties
such as APGA, APP and LABOUR Party, but they were not the Ruling Party.
Still under Cross-Examination, Chief Mai Chibi Vwalji, stated that it was Morally Right to put to use
Government Monies for Political Party Purposes because the Party was in Power. The Money was not
stated to be Government’s Money and neither was it stated to be part of the Ecological Fund and the
source was undisclosed. He answered in the positive that everything he was told about the Abuja
Meeting was what he himself was told. He was not present when the Money was shared through the
Local Governments to the Three Hundred and Twenty-Five (325) Wards.
There was no Re-Examination of this Witness.
DW7, Mr. Paul Datugun, a Central Cashier in the Ministry of Finance in Year 2006, testified that his
Predecessor, Late Bala Kwafud, had informed him that EFCC Officials had carted away with all the
Relevant Documents from the Year 1999 to 2005, when they invaded the Office of the Accountant
General in the Ministry of Finance. His entire testimony is contained in the 2nd Set of Circumstances
relating to Plateau State/Accountant-General’s Accounts and will constitute an unnecessary repetition
if stated here.
DW8, Mr. John Gozen Gobak, a Non-Executive Chairman of the Government owned Agricultural
Services, Training and Marketing Limited, narrated the history of the Defendant’s First and Second
Tenure and the Incidences of the State of Emergency declared by Olusegun Obasanjo, the then
President of Nigeria, the Impeachment of the Defendant and his Subsequent Reinstatement, a Month
and a Half before the Expiration of his Tenure. During the Defendant’s First Tenure, he was not the
Secretary to the State Government and the Person, who was the Secretary to the State Government, at
the relevant time, could best answer the Questions put to him.
Under Cross-Examination, Mr. John Gozen Gobak stated that he was formerly a Member of the PDP
and is now a Member of the APC. There was no Re-Examination of this Witness.
His entire testimony is contained in the 2nd Set of Circumstances relating to Plateau State/AccountantGeneral’s Accounts and will constitute an unnecessary repetition if stated here.
The Defence applied and obtained a Subpoena Duces Tecum to the Deputy Chief Registrar of the
Federal High Court in Kaduna State, and after Two Adjournments, the Document requested, which
was the Certified Copy of a Ruling delivered in Suit No: FHC/KD/144C/2004 was produced and
admitted into evidence along with the Witness Summons issued out, as Exhibits D21A and D21B.
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