#Dasukigate: Bola Tinubu's The Nation Admits To Collecting Money .

The investigation by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, into an alleged misappropriation of $2.1bn meant for an arms deal has taken  another twist as the publisher of Nation Newspaper and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu  confessed that he received a “ paltry sum of N9 million’’ of the alleged loot.

Tinubu, in a statement on Page 4 of the Nation Newspaper dated December 12, 2015 disclosed that the Former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki gave his organization the money through the publisher of ThisDay newspapers, Nduka Obaigbena, as compensation for the disruption of their operations and attack on their personnel by soldiers in June 2014.

The Goodluck Jonathan-led government  through the security agencies had on June 2014 clamped down on some newspaper delivery vans following a tip off that they were used to convey bombs to Abuja by the Boko Haram sect.

“About a week later, the government made good its promise. Obaigbena sent a draft of N9m to the NATION, saying that the money was from the Jonathan government,” Tinubu said through the Managing Director of Vintage Press, Victor Ifijeh.

He added: “No further payment was made to the NATION by any other person, organization or body on behalf of the Jonathan government.”

Obaigbena had told the EFCC investigating disbursement of funds from the office of the NSA that payments made to him were for 12 newspapers and for his company’s losses during a Boko Haram attack in 2012.

He said Dasuki,  paid him N670 million as compensation for the Boko Haram bomb attack on ThisDay office, and an additional N120 million on behalf 12 newspapers under the aegis of Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, as compensation for the attacks on newspapers.

Several Newspapers like Peoples Daily, Tribune and New Telegraph had earlier denied receiving the money but Tinubu’s owned newspaper admitted  receiving N9 million from the money.

The confession came on the heels of the anti-graft agency having detected another line of payments made to companies linked to Thisday publisher and owner of Arise Television.

The investigators said Obaigbena was paid at least N650million from a questionable transaction with Dasuki.

The anti-graft agency had last week arrested the Former Chairman of DAAR communication Raymond Dokpesi for collecting N2.2bn from the office of the former NSA.

Confirming that the Nation partook in the alleged loot, Tinubu said: “The Nation was one of the 12 Newspapers named by the President of the Newspapers Proprietor Association of Nigeria, NPAN, Nduka Obaigbena, as beneficiaries of the sum of N120 million obtained from the office of the Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.”