Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
senators have warned the Federal Government against using the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to intimidate them, vowing to resist such
attempt.They asked President
Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that some people do not use his name to misuse state
machinery in fighting their perceived political opponents in the guise of
waging anti-corruption war.
A statement on Friday by
Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, on behalf of PDP senators, read,
“As much as we are not
against the anti-corruption agencies performing their statutory duties, the
invitation by EFCC to the wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki,
clearly indicated that the threat by a group within the National Assembly to
use all means to fight the National Assembly leadership is now being carried
out.
“Nigerians should ask
the EFCC what it was waiting for all this while before realising that it would
need to invite Mrs. Saraki when she left the Government House with her husband
in 2011. And why should the invitation come a few days after a senator
threatened that his group would bring the senate president down?
“We also think that the
same witch-hunt that the wife of the senate president is suffering now is the
same thing happening to his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who the police have
been disturbing. But at the right time, we will jointly make our opinion known
on the harassment of our leaders.”
The Kwara State chapter
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Friday said the invitation of
Mrs. Toyin Saraki, wife of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was politically motivated.
However, during a
media briefing in Ilorin after the state APC’s executive meeting, the state APC
Chairman, Alhaji Ishola Balogun-Fulani, described the EFCC’s invitation as a
calculated attempt to dent the image of the senate president and his wife.
He cautioned EFCC to
avoid being used for political vendetta.
Balogun-Fulani said,
“The EFCC’s invitation
of Mrs. Saraki was a shock to the APC in Kwara State because five years after
her husband left office as the governor, the anti-graft agency thought it wise
to invite his wife for questioning.”
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