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Tinubu Govt Didn’t Pay me Salary, I Rejected N5bn Offer, Says Fela Durotoye

According to him, this came amid serious pressure from a government official, who worked in a previous administration and claimed to be a pastor.

Emmanuel Babs by Emmanuel Babs
February 12, 2025
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A former presidential candidate of the now-defunct Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN, Fela Durotoye, has claimed he turned down a chance to siphon N5bn in a fraudulent government deal.

According to him, this came amid serious pressure from a government official, who worked in a previous administration and claimed to be a pastor.

Durotoye stated this while speaking at the biannual conference of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, in Abuja, on Tuesday.

According to him, the official approached him with a lucrative training contract, and claimed he (Durotoye) had already been picked for the job.

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He was informed the programme would involve trainings across all 774 local government areas in Nigeria within eight weeks.

Durotoye’s team went ahead to prepare an invoice, calculating a price of N1.3bn for the training.

“A few years ago, I’ll not say how long, but it’s not this administration, it’s not last administration it’s a while ago let me leave it like that,” Durotoye said.

He added: “I got a phone call and it happened to be a Man of God from Abuja who called me to say Fela, there’s an opportunity that I want you to explore, in fact let me be clear with you, you have already gotten it.

“But they said the amount I was asking for was too small. They promised to add N700m to make it N2bn. Then they asked me to submit an invoice for N5b.

“The man assured me he wasn’t ripping off Nigeria.

“He said he had served the country and deserved compensation. When I reminded him that the blessings of God make one rich and add no sorrow, he fired back, saying, ‘There is no sorrow in this one. You have been doing well for Nigeria. It is time for Nigeria to do well for you.’”

As pressure mounted, Durotoye revealed he switched off his phone.

Durotoye said three months after the conversations, some officials in the presidency were arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for stealing N426m from an ethical leadership training fund.

Durotoye also disclosed that he did not earn a salary while serving under the President Bola Tinubu administration as Special Assistant to the President.

“I did not collect an official car, I did not collect a house, and I did not collect a salary for serving.

“It was difficult to get my letter out because, according to somebody in government, my refusal to collect those things would make it difficult to pin me to corruption,” he said.

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