Opening the interview, VDM asked, “Let’s start with this: did you at any point in time meet with Femi Gbaja one-on-one to discuss this whole thing?”
Adeyemi answered, “no.”
VDM pressed further, asking, “Did you speak on the phone to discuss this whole thing?”
Adeyemi said, “Yes, like three times I’ve once spoken to him through my late friend, Dolapo Tanimola.”
Raising the possibility that someone else may have been on the other end of those calls, VDM asked, “How are you sure it was Gbaja? Did you speak to him on video call? Anybody could have collected that phone.”
Adeyemi replied, “No, it was not on video call.”
The self-styled DG also agreed when VDM asked him to verify that “every transaction that was done was through your friend and that your friend is late.”
When VDM remarked, “If the Chief of Staff is coming to say he is not the one, it is possible (that he is not). In Nigeria, anything can happen,” Adeyemi responded, “Of course! Yes.”
Asked whether Gbajabiamila might genuinely be unaware of the fraud or might be lying, Adeyemi said, “I wouldn’t say he is lying and I wouldn’t say he is saying the truth.”