Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has denied media report that accused him of evading tax and having links with Erojim Group of Companies.
Alhaji Gulak described the accusations as false saying they were ones that were intended to mislead the public and disparage his image. He made this known through his special adviser on media and public affairs, Chief Perry Opara, in a statement. Gulak noted that at no time was he found wanting in the discharge of his duties as a lawyer, former speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, special adviser to the vice president and currently special adviser to the president.
According to him, “For the records, Alhaji A.A. Gulak has no business dealing with any of the persons mentioned in the fabrication nor has he any links with Erojim or any other company in the British Islands. Alhaji Gulak has not travelled to British Virgin Islands before… The story is unequivocally false and intended to mislead the public and disparage the image and person of Alhaji (Barr) Ahmed Ali Gulak and by extension, the office of the special adviser to the president on political affairs.
“That the mischievous authors of the script in their late paragraphs exonerated Alhaji Ahmed Ali Gulak of any complicity as their inability to ascertain the veracity of the claim confirms that the story is a figment of one’s deadly imagination that should be laid to rest in the dustbin.”
A damning report which appeared in some online media and a national daily accused Alhaji Gulak of leading a growing list of Nigerian business and political elites that ran secret offshore companies and accounts where they either hid their wealth to evade taxes or laundered money and committed fraud. It also accused the president’s aide of acting as legal adviser to the firm that dealt on supply of fast boats, radial systems, naval communication equipment and military hardware to the Federal Government as well as links to a secret Shell company in the British Virgin Islands.
