Nigeria: Why I Rejected N250m Bribe for Third Term Agenda – Wabara

A former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, has revealed that he turned down a bribe of N250 million aimed at swaying him to the side of the pro-third term senators in 2006 because of his educational background.

It would be recalled that the third-term agenda, a major watershed moment in Nigeria’s 25 years of uninterrupted democratic governance, came in the form of a bill for a constitutional amendment that would see then-President Olusegun Obasanjo qualify to run for a third term in office. The…