– Ambassador Adefuye’s Connection
– Embassy Accounts Now Closed at Banks
THE campaign of calumny and disinformation launched by Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, Professor Tony Adefuye to discredit sharpedgenews.com has backfired as further facts have emerged that his lack of tact and discretion made him personally responsible for the decision of Bank of America and Wells Fargo to eventually close down the country’s account with the financial institutions.
Ambassador Adefuye, who has been deploying ‘Nigeria Big Man’ strategy to wage a relentless three-week campaign towards a failed attempt at impeaching the credibility of sharpedgenews.com was the person who allegedly withdrew $50,000 in cash from the embassy’s account with a branch of one of the banks in the state of Maryland, USA, which triggered the two American banks to flag the Mission on suspicion of money laundering activities.
About $3.6 million dollars was said to have been involved in the scam.
Sharpedgenews.com has also learned on good authority that the embassy has not yet paid its Nigerian diplomatic staff in two months, although Adefuye reportedly got some moneys through Nigeria’s consulate in Atlanta for the payment of its expatriate employees while the Nigerian workers of the embassy remain unpaid because the two banks have now decided to close down the affected accounts, according information volunteered to sharpedgenews.com by an impeccable source.
Another source revealed to sharpedgenews.com that the two banks, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, have closed down the affected accounts and decided to issue checks to the embassy in respect of the balance that was left in the accounts.
“It was a polite way of telling Prof. Adefuye that the banks were tired of his gross misconduct,” sharpedgenews.com was told.
It was also reliably gathered that Adefuye is relying on facts after the closure of the accounts to launch his campaigns to deceive and confuse Nigerians by claiming that the Embassy never had any accounts with the banks.
Mr. Oladimeji Abitogun, the editor-in-chief of sharpedgenews.com described the attitude of Ambassador Adefuye as “curious” considering the fact that the same ambassador “has written and influenced the response of the Embassy to the development without talking to us at sharpedgenews.com.”
Mr. Abitogun said Nigerians should ask the Ambassador “if he thinks that he is serving the country and its people by trying to impede the integrity of its media by lying through his teeth over this matter.” In the course investigating our reports, we made several phone calls to the ambassador, his communications officer Dr. Baba and the Head of Chicanery Mr. Ajadi, but none of them demonstrated appropriate courtesy to get back to us. They acted like masters instead of public servants.
It was further discovered that the Embassy has had limited access to Nigeria’s crude oil accounts with City Bank in New York but, according to one of our sources, “not enough to drag him away from his present demons.”