Aviation officials claim $1.6m ministerial car scandal is “all rumours”

Aviation authorities in Lagos attempted a vigorous push back on Tuesday report that the nation’s aviation minister, Stella Oduah, abused her office by compelling the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to purchase two armoured BMW cars for her worth N255 million.

Talking to PremiumTimes, Aviation spokesman, Yakubu Datti, dismissed SaharaReporters story as “rumours” suggesting that it was politically motivated. Despite SaharaReporters paper proof.
He said:

I don’t respond to rumours…[and] as we approach 2015, people are bound to make up all sorts of stories.

This is a woman (Mrs. Oduah) who is successful and established. A woman that made her mark in oil and gas, who owned trucks, barges, and so on.
What is two cars?”

Mr. Datti dismissed such claims, adding that Mrs. Oduah lived a life of comfort graced by generosity in which she “buys cars and dashes to people” long before she became a minister.

Also, when contacted, Joe Obi, the minister’s spokesperson, promised to get back to PREMIUM TIMES after “verifying the story and the document” published alongside the article.
He said:

“At the moment, I can’t give you any response because I need to authenticate the documents published on the website. We would do that shortly,” he added.