Bode George: I never met Dasuki, talk less of collecting money from him

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has described as wicked, false and reckless a report linking him with the $2 billion arms procurement deal.
A statement signed on his behalf by the Chairman of Lagos Collectives, Professor Tejumade Akitoye-Rhodes, reads:
“Sahara Reporters has now gone beyond the pale of gutter journalism in its utter malicious story linking Chief Bode George to a phantom N100 million allegedly collected from Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser.
“The libelous publication is outrightly borne upon a twisted and depraved imagination, lacking substance, stripped of any iota of truth, prompted by a primitive malignity.
“For the record, Chief Bode George did not collect a farthing from Dasuki or anybody else whatsoever. He has never even set eyes on the former NSA throughout his tenure in office, talk less of collecting money from him . Dasuki of course is very much alive to corroborate this position. Where then in the world did Sahara Reporters manufacture its fractured and hideous hack writing and grubby and venomous scribble from?
“Again, in its disdain for clarity and the truth, the grubby online outfit still refers to Chief Bode George as an ex convict despite the fact the man has been completely discharged and acquitted by the highest court in our land.
“It is rather sickening and sad when any two-bit wayfarer with an access to the Internet churns out absolute falsehood and desperate invectives in the name of journalism. Beer parlor reverie and drunken anecdotal scribbles are no substitute for journalism”.