Otedola: Despite blowing the whistle on subsidy scam, Lawan wanted a bribe

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By Mariam Kareem

The Chairman of Forte Oil, Mr Femi Otedola, has testified in court how he blew the whistle on subsidy scam during the immediate past administration.

Femi Otedola

Otedola told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja how he told former President Goodluck Jonathan that some highly placed Nigerians were ripping the country off in the oil sector.

Otedola disclosed: “I realised that companies in Nigeria were claiming money for subsidy on petroleum products they never imported. When I saw how much was being stolen, I went to then president  Goodluck Jonathan.”

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But Jonathan, according to him, did not believe.

“I told him my observations as to how much was being stolen as money for subsidy on the products they never imported. He told me later that he had consulted with  then-Minister of Petroleum and that there…



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