News of the arrest
and detention of top socialite and number one fan of Fuji Lord, Wasiu Ayinde
Marshal, Rafiu Ajibola aka Elele had elicited surprises from friends and
associates of the happy-go-lucky man.
In his days as a
socialite, Elele never spared any cost to register his presence as a fun loving
guy and those, who benefitted from his largesse used to thank their stars for
moving close to 'such a highly favoured man.'
But all these have
since gone with the wind as Elele's secrets as a drug courier got into the
public glare and the erstwhile man about town is now cooling his heads in jail
as he is being investigated by men of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
in the United States of America.
Elele's friends and
associates were said to have made several unsuccessful attempts to get him out
of jail shortly after his arrest in November 2012, even a former governor was
reported to have attempted to bribe FBI with a whopping N30 Million to get
Elele out of detention.
Latest information
on the embattled socialite has it that he is now co-operating with FBI on the
matter.
Rafiu is said to
be singing in jail like a Kenery bird and has started listing the names of his
cronies and associates in the illicit trade of drug trafficking.
Our sources hinted
that Rafiu has implicated many of his friends in Canada and the dragnets of FBI
are being spread to Nigeria, where many of his 'business partners,' are
residing soon.
Some of those
implicated, our sources revealed, include those who have benefitted from his
unusual largesse, and who are now being termed as his accomplices as they never
queried how he suddenly became so wealthy overnight.
“Rafiu is
seriously co-operating with FBI on the matter. He is exposing those behind him
in the illicit trade of drug pushing. The guy thought he could buy his way out
initially, but he has now realized that there is nothing he could do, so he has
decided to reveal the true story and tell the securitymen all he had been doing
in secrets,” said our source.
Those close to him
and who are privy to what is going on in Rafiu's detention camp in the US told
us that he has been cowed and that he is really in a big mess.
They added that
what he is waiting for is prosecution and that his friends have been scouting
for a competent lawyer to handle the matter so that he could get a mild
judgment in the court of law, when the time comes.
It was also
gathered that Elele and his friends are working on a theory that he could be
treated like another alleged drug baron and motor dealer, Lanre Shittu, who was
let off the hook after co-operating with security agents in Uncle Sam's country
many years back.
Prior to his
arrest, Elele had invested heavily in a hotel project on Lagos Island, and his
arrest has dealt a fatal blow to the project as he had thought of retiring
peacefully into the hotel from where he hoped to build a thriving business
since hotel business is really lucrative.
Investigations
revealed also that Elele was able to complete the building of his mansion at
Sangotedo a couple of years ago. Those appeared to be his known major projects
here in Nigeria while we are still digging into what he really acquired while
he was in the United States of America and Canada.
On the family
front, Elele has a female child in Lagos but Risikat Elegushi, his wife and
whose surname Rafiu bears instead of his own surname, Afolabi which is not
known to the public, is yet to have a child for him.
The arrest and
extradition of Elele has raised serious dust in the social circle while his
circle of friends have done a really great job at keeping it closely wrapped
from the public before this magazine opened the Pandora box and leaked this
much kept secrets.
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