Falae: We won’t refund any money to anybody

Olu Falae, national chairman of the Social
Democratic Party (SDP), says he and his party
are not returning any money to anybody.
Falae, who was earlier accused of collecting
N100 million from Sambo Dasuki, former national
security adviser (NSA), admitted that he
collected the money, but from Tony Anenih of
the PDP and not Dasuki.

Speaking through Abdul Isaiq, the SDP national
publicity secretary, Falae insisted that his party
did not get a dime from the arms fund, but from
the PDP for electoral alliance.

“In terms of refund of money, I want to say here
that those people who are refunding money are
those who got their money directly from the
arms deal fund,” he said.

“Our fund did not come from the arms deal; our
fund came from an electoral alliance with the
PDP and we knew that the PDP had a
fundraising committee that gathered billions of
naira and PDP had been in government for 16
years.

“So, with that, we knew that the PDP had the
capacity to fund the alliance that was formed
with them by the SDP. You don’t postulate what
you don’t have on the ground, you can’t build on
a non-foundation.

“We, as a political party, knew that the PDP was
a capable hand in the electoral alliance which
we entered with them. And we equally knew that
the PDP had a fundraising, where it generated
over N20 billion down.”

The party said it was left for Anenih to explain
how he got the money given to them and not for
them to refund anything of such.
“So, whether the money came from Col. Sambo
Dasuki or his office is what we don’t know and it
is left for them to ask Chief Tony Anenih to
explain.

“We knew that the PDP had been ruling Nigeria
for 16 years. So, this was the basis of our
electoral alliance with them.

“We can’t refund any money to anybody because
the money we got as a party came because of
the alliance we had with the PDP and we have
the agreement note from this alliance.

“If it is possible that the money Chief Anenih
gave us was from the arms deal, it is left for
them to ask Chief Anenih to clarify. As far as we
knew, we did not have any dealing with Dasuki.

“Our office did not ever have anything to do with
the office or person of the National Security
Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki.”