Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), yesterday raised an alarm that the administration of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, was under threat by unknown elements in connivance with a Nigerian international business mogul.
Spokesperson for the EFCC, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement made available to Daily Champion in Abuja, said the plot was through discrediting the anti-graft agency, after President Yar'Adua threw his weight behind it during the recent launch of the Anti Corruption Revolution (ANCOR).
The statement said: "Though there have been similar attempts in the past but the latest plot is targeted at the administration of President Umar Musa Yar'Adua, who only last week, charged the EFCC to go after the corrupt with vigour.
"It is the belief of those behind the plot that by discrediting EFCC which is the engine room of the nation's fight against graft, they would have succeeded in weakening Yar'Adua administration's renewed bid to take the war against graft to the doorsteps of the corrupt.
"To achieve this, some of these elements have begun moves to launch series of attacks against the commission and its leadership with the aim of discrediting its line of actions in the weeks ahead.
"Information available to the commission indicates that some of these individuals including a discredited businessman whose dubious means of livelihood was recently terminated by the EFCC have been working in connivance with some insiders in the commission and their overseas collaborators to among other things, cook up and peddle falsehood about the work of the commission and some of its officials.
"Let no one be deceived that the attempt to tarnish the image of the commission and its officials has any semblance of truth. It is purely a blackmail to discredit the commission's activities in the weeks ahead," the statement read.