N900m debt: Buba Galadima forfeits houses to AMCON

February 26, 2020
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A former leader of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Buba Galadima, has lost some assets and his company Bedko Nigeria Limited to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), over a chronic debt of N900million

Alhaji Galadima, a prominent Nigerian politician and engineer who formally was the Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Agency (NMA) from 1996 to 1998, allegedly owed the said sum when AMCON purchased the debt during the first phase of Eligible Bank Assets from Unity Bank Plc in 2011.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory in Suits No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1136/2019 ordered AMCON to take over the business and assets of Bedko.

Since then, AMCON has offered the obligor a good measure of olive branches and explored all avenues to resolve the matter amicably, but the obligor, and his company, Bedko Nigeria Limited have remained recalcitrant and unwilling to repay the huge debt to the Corporation.

The order, which was granted to AMCON by Justice A.I. Chikere, the presiding judge gave the government recovery agency the power to take over some properties belonging to the politician. The properties include House No. 15, Addis Ababa Crescent, Wuse Zone 4, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and house No. 4, Bangui Street, Wuse 2 also in high-brow area of Abuja.

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It would be recalled that Galadima was appointed National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Party, which was formed then in the run-up to the 2011 national elections as a leading platform for now incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.

Galadima is one of the nine signatories that signed the merger agreement between some political parties that came together, including the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA); Congress for Progressive Change (CPC); All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) to form the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which is the platform on which the current president of Nigeria contested and won the 2015 presidential election.

AMCON led by Mr Ahmed Kuru as Managing Director/Chief Executive has intensified efforts at recovering the over N5trillion outstanding indebtedness to AMCON. The AMCON CEO have repeatedly reiterated the fact that AMCON under his leadership will do whatever it takes within the law to recover the huge debt, and will not mind the status of the obligor in the discharge of the duties of AMCON.

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