Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2016 election in Edo state, has revealed that EFCC invited him to explain how the N700 million given to him as the campaign coordinator of former president, Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential election in Edo state during the 2015 general election was expended.
According to him, he told the anti-graft agency who got what and how the money was spent.
He said they needed the money for transportation and mobilization of the people, as some of them had to leave Benin to their polling units in the rural.
The PDP governorship aspirant said the state chairman of the party worked out a realistic budget.
“And that by the time we looked at what they brought and what we had in mind, it became clear that the N700 million would not be enough. Our leader volunteered to make up the difference which he brought from his house.
“I must confess that the EFCC operatives were very professional, cautious and I cannot believe that it was done specifically to harass me because even while I was there, I saw coordinators from other states, who were also invited, so it was clear to me that what they were doing was a nationwide exercise,” Ize-Iyamu added.
Ize-Iyamu said no amount of blackmail, harassment or witch-hunting could stop him from speaking on issues affecting Edo state such as the mismanagement and plundering by the APC-led government.