Legal Practitioner Petitions EFCC, INEC Against Ogun SSG Tokunbo Talabi, Alleging Money Laundering, Ballot Paper Printing

Raymond Osho
A legal practitioner Femi Oniyide has filed a petition with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against the Secretary to the Ogun State Government (SSG), Tokunbo Talabi, accusing him of involvement in money laundering and illicit activities related to the printing of ballot papers.
The legal practitioner in the open petitioned he personally signed and read before journalists during a press briefing in Abeokuta, the state capital on Monday alleged that Talabi laundered the money in 2020, totalling N189,797,163.9 through a company account- Superflux International Ltd with Access Bank Plc bearing his BVN.
According to Oliyide, the amounts with payment description; “INEC Electoral amount….4 55 of BALLOT P” were meant for the supply of ballot papers by the company under the financial grip of the SSG to INEC.
He further alleged that the payments were supposedly made in four tranches on the 19th of June, 2020, for N47,449,290.90 per each transaction, totalling.
The legal practitioner equally alleged that over N10. 800,000.00 Covid -19 funds were discovered in the account of Superflux International Ltd in 2020 which, according to him, has the financial control of Tokunbo Talabi.
Oliyide disclosed that the amount was allegedly discovered to have been paid twice into the SSG’s company account twice, totalling N21,600,000:00.
His words “I have come to the knowledge, through different stories Online, that Superflux International Ltd, sometime in 2020, took lodgement of various sums of money from the Central Bank of Nigeria account of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC for the printing of ballot papers meant for elections in Nigeria.
“The alleged payments were supposedly made in four tranches on the 19th of June, 2020, for N47,449,290.90 per each transaction, totalling W189,797,163.9 Only. The amount, according to the description of payment was meant for “INEC Electoral amount….4 55 of BALLOT P”.
Oliyide added “Of another major importance in this petition is the alleged discovery of COVID 19 funds in the account of the same Superflux International Ltd, which has the financial control imprimatur of the SSG to Ogun State government.
“The sum of N10,800,000:00 was allegedly discovered to have been paid twice into the SSG’s company account twice, totalling W21,600,000:00 Naira on the 4th of February, 2020 of which there was an onward transfer to Zimanel Global Enterprises with the description, “Covid 19 food support.”
He however implored the Chairman of EFCC and ICPC to cause detailed investigation into the circumstances of “how Ogun State taxpayers funds will be so brazenly managed and laundered by a private company owned by a political appointee and his family”.
Efforts to get the reaction of the SSG proved abortive as he did not return the phone calls put through at the time of publishing this report.