SaharaReporters has uncovered new facts about how the jet of Wale Tinubu, Chief Executive Officer of Oando PLC, played a major role in the beginning of events that led to the fracas within the Aso Villa, which has since pitched Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, against some power brokers also known as the "cabal".
SaharaReporters had exclusively reported how Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, Personal Assistant and Private Secretary of President Buhari, was forced out of the Villa by Aisha’s aides to observe a 14-day self-isolation having exposed himself to the risk of contracting Coronavirus when he travelled to Lagos on a visit to his wife, who recently delivered a baby.
However, new facts have revealed that the real cause of Tunde's ordeal was that he illegally procured Wale Tinubu's private jet with registration Number T7f-JAT.
The jet, A Falcon X 900, which is registered to an undisclosed company, is operated by Empire Aviation in Lagos.
Yusuf upon arriving Lagos had reportedly asked Tinubu for his jet for a quick trip to London's Stansted Airport.
findings show that a second jet belonging to Tinubu, a Bombardier Express 7000 with registration number VP-CBT, travelled to London on June 7, 2020 but the British authorities told our correspondent that a manifest submitted to them did not include Yusuf's name, also the TJ-JAT Falcon X jet took a dash to London's Stansted on June 6, 2020 and did not have him onboard.
SaharaReporters could not confirm if the two jets conveyed passengers for an international flight from Nigeria to London, United Kingdom, during the lockdown period on the instructions of Yusuf.
The journeys are a disturbing disregard for internationally recognised protocols on Coronavirus and violates the movement restriction order of the Nigerian Government.
Even though the ADC to President Buhari and his Chief Security Officer couldn't verify Yusuf’s trip to London, the suspicion that he was part of passengers, who boarded Tinubu's private jet to and fro London set the alarm in the Villa and a plot was hatched to force him into isolation upon return to Abuja.
Moreso, after Tinubu's jet arrived Lagos from the UK, it conveyed Yusuf back to Abuja.