FACTS DON’T LIE: DID PETER MBAH OBTAIN #10 BILLION LOAN FROM FIDELITY BANK IN 2022?
By Simon Chukwurah
There seems to be no end to the sordid, murky and scandalous discoveries about the Enugu State gubernatorial candidate of the people’s Democratic Party PDP Mr Peter Mbah. The more he keeps mute refusing to refute ugly jabs dug up against him, the more floodgates of many more scandals are opened, almost on a daily basis. Is it really a good Idea to keep silent and not respond to them to clear his name in the court of public opinion? I don’t think so, as silence the world over is accepted as an admission of guilt.
As things stand now, Peter Mbah has unwittingly broken an infamous record of being a gubernatorial candidate with the most reproaches, baggage and scandals evidenced in records, since the creation of Enugu state. Although former Governor Chimaroke Nnamani appears to have worse criminal records, not much was said about him as a gubernatorial candidate. Could it be due to the advent of social media which has revolutionized information dissemination and which wasn’t there before 1999? Perhaps so.
Back to Mr. Peter Ndubisi Mbah. From his inglorious tenure as commissioner for finance under the sleazy regime of Dr Chimaroke Nnanami and under whose watch Enugu was practically raped, garroted and looted to coma , detention for ten months on suspicion of official corruption by the EFCC, forfeiture of hundreds of millions of dollars belonging to Enugu State to the American government under the FBI’s assets forfeiture proceedings to the allegation of purchase of nomination ticket for the sum of #13 billion, the list of allegations against him appear endless.
However, it appears the only one the media managers of the gubernatorial candidate found necessary to respond to, was an essay penned by one Canice Ogbodo questioning the source of funds with which Pinnacle Oil and Gas was set up and which he traced to Enugu State government’s treasury while Mbah held sway as commissioner for finance.
Despite Mbah campaign organization’s decision to respond, the questions asked in Canice Ogbdo’s piece remain almost
unanswered.
They include; was Peter Mbah not the commissioner for finance at the time of his arrest? Did he not spend ten months in jail on corruption suspicion before being granted bail? Was he not subsequently arraigned, charged and prosecuted? How was he discharged? How did he become ‘Pinnacle oil mogul’ after leaving jail? Was he not again charged by the EFCC in 2012 for attempt to defraud and obtain money by false pretences in the sum of #986 million from the Nigeria government with respect to the notorious petrol subsidy scam?
Responding to Ogbodo’s essay one Uche Anichukwu( formerly a media assistant to Ike Ekweremadu) a media director to the Peter Mbah Campaign Organization, put up a spirited defence of his principal accusing the author of serially and mischievously disparaging his master.
Although Mr Anichukwu only defended the issue of source of funds for establishment of the Pinnacle company, he in the rejoinder, claimed to have completely addressed all the issues raised. His explanation was that Peter Mbah was already a hardworking millionaire who made his money in his twenties and who had as at 1990 begun importing containers into the country, something he consolidated upon to become who he is today.
In further reply to Mr. Uche Anichukwu’s rejoinder, Canice drew his attention to the fact that if indeed Peter Mbah had started importing hundreds of containers into the country as at 1990, he would have done so at age 18, taking into account the gubernatorial candidate’s current age of 51 years. Could he have been a millionaire with such accomplishments at age 18 as claimed?
Puncturing Mr. Anichukwu’s lies further, Ogbodo asked how come Mr Mbah was not known at the time (1990) when only about two or three millionaires were found in the entire Wawa axis of the old Anambra St
