Buhari Rejects Alison-Madueke’s Offer To Return $250Million Loot

Attempts by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to refund her $250 million loot to the nation’s coffers in exchange for immunity from further investigation and possible prosecution has hit the rock as President Muhammadu Buhari rejected the offer.

Enigma Reports findings indicate that the former minister has been reaching out to influential members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to prevail on the President to accept her offer and let bygones be bygones.

Among several figures close to Mr. Buhari contacted by Mrs. Alison-Madueke, an impeccable source revealed, include Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, who she has been pressuring to intercede with the incumbent president on her behalf.

The former Petroleum Minister was one of the closest ministers to former President Goodluck Jonathan, and has been linked to numerous money-laundering scandals and deals that reputed the outgone administration of Goodluck Jonathan. Madueke oversaw several oil swap deals, the disposition of oil wells handed over by Shell Petroleum to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and the direct looting of funds through the NNPC.

This, in some way, warranted former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, being forced out of office after he revealed that the NNPC had failed to remit more than $20 billion in oil revenues with the CBN.

According to a source, Madueke’s latest offer to refund at least $250 million to the government came after she learned that President Buhari’s scheduled meeting with US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, would include a discussion of ways that the US government could facilitate the investigation, arrest and prosecution of some officials of the Jonathan administration implicated in the theft of billions of dollars and a variety of frauds that resulted in the loss of significant sums of public funds in Nigeria.

It was further disclosed that Buhari was unimpressed by Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s offer. A source said: “Mr. President considers the $250 million as ridiculous considering the amount of money Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke is suspected to have diverted into her pocket and those of others.”

Buhari is bent on ordering a full audit of deals and transactions done by the former Petroleum Minister and her cohorts in the various agencies that reported to her, sources said.