A legal practitioner in Ogun State, Femi Oniyide, has petitioned the Economic Financial Commission, EFCC, and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), against the Secretary to the Government of Ogun State, Tokunbo Talabi over his connection with a company Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, contracted to print ballot papers during the last general elections.

Recall that Freelanews reports how INEC aided electoral heist in Ogun State governorship election by contracting the SSG’s company to produce the same ballot papers for an election latter had vested interest in.

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In his petition, the lawyer appealed to EFCC and ICPC to investigate how Ogun State tax payers funds could be so brazenly managed and laundered by a private company owned by a political appointee and his family.

Read full petition below.

AN OPEN PETITION TO EFCC & ICPC, AGAINST MR TOKUNBO TALABI, SSG TO THE GOVERNMENT OF OGUN STATE OVER ALLEGED MONEY LAUNDERING.
I, Femi Oniyide, a legal practitioner and an indigene of Ogun State, hereby put up this open petition against Mr Tokunbo Talabi, Secretary to the Government of Ogun State, over various allegations of money laundering through a company account, known as Superflux International Ltd with Access Bank Plc, which allegedly has his BVN and of which he has the financial control over.
BALLOT PAPERS PRINTING AND MANIPULATION:
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 ₦47,449,290.90 per each transaction, totalling ₦189,797,163.9 Only. The amount, according to the description of payment was meant for “INEC Electoral amount…..4 SS of BALLOT P”.
This, without mincing words are amounts meant for the supply of ballot papers by the company, Superflux International Ltd, under the financial grip of the said Secretary to the Government of Ogun State, to INEC, a body saddled with the responsibility of conducting elections in Ogun State and in fact, Nigeria.
Part of the allegations right before the Election Petition Tribunal in Ogun State presently are issues of ballot papers with similar serial numbers spread across some local government areas where election were held.
The crux of the matter that we want addressed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), is how did the company of a man who is an interested party in the elections to be held in Ogun State, became the same person to print the ballot papers to be used for the election ? We dare ask what legal or moral justification has the SSG, Mr Tokunbo Talabi, to present his company as a contractor to INEC for the printing of ballot papers ? Should an interested party be the same person to print ballot papers in an election involving his principal and his party ? I pray that the account of the company should be probed further beyond 2020 in order to determine whether further contracts for the supply of ballot papers was awarded to the company by INEC.
I will not want to delve more into how this affected the alleged rigging of the governorship election in Ogun State as the matter is presently before the Election Petition Tribunal.
OGUN STATE COVID 19 FUND: 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 ₦10,800,000:00 was allegedly discovered to have been paid twice into the SSG’s company account twice, totalling ₦21,600,000:00 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”. Our question is whether the SSG was graceful enough to supply the good people of Ogun State with food palliatives during the Covid 19 pandemic or under what circumstances did such an humongous amount for Covid 19 food support allegedly pass through his company’s account ? The company’s account in which this seeming atrocities were committed is with Access Bank Plc.
We hereby implore the Chairmen of EFCC and ICPC to cause detailed investigation into the circumstances of how Ogun State tax payers funds will be so brazenly managed and laundered by a private company owned by a political appointee and his family, with likely collusion of co-conspirators in all the approving state’s authority, including the state Accountant General. We also plead that they investigate the ballot paper printing for elections by the same aforementioned government appointees company. The SSG is the alter ego of Superflux International Ltd. It should most urgently be looked into on this matters bordering on financial crimes, money laundering and corruption.
Thanks for acting swiftly over this petition as we strongly believe that we should all act together to bring corruption to a standstill as recently shown in the sagacious action of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in tackling the lingering crisis of fuel subsidy and bringing it to a stop.
Highest regards.

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