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Tinubu Behind Toyin Saraki’s EFCC Ordeal — Sen. Waku by Zeusd3(m): 6:11am On Jul 26, 2015 |
A former Vice-Chairman and member,
Board of Trustees of the Arewa
Consultative Forum, Senator Joseph
Waku, has accused the National Leader of
the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, of allegedly masterminding
the petition that has changed the wife of
the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki,
to be invited by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission.
According to him, the decision was
followed by a promise to help secure a
second term for the EFCC Chairman, Mr.
Ibrahim Lamorde.
But Tinubu said Waku should not be taken
seriously, as he was broke and needed “a
quick fix.”
Waku, a leader of the APC, in a statement
sent to journalists in Abuja on Saturday,
described a situation where Tinubu would
be allegedly using his personal
relationship with the EFCC Chairman “to
embarrass and torment fellow party
members” as unfortunate.
Waku, in the statement, claimed that his
findings showed that Tinubu personally
gave the petition to Lamorde under the
guise that he was submitting it on behalf
of the APC leadership to punish Saraki for
working against the party’s leadership on
the choice of National Assembly leaders.
He said, “I have chosen to speak out on
this issue and make my findings on this
issue known to the public. After days of
painstaking enquiries, I discovered that
both Tinubu and Lamorde maintain a
mutually beneficial relationship since the
days of Lamorde as the EFCC Director of
Operations and based in Lagos between
2003 and 2007, when Tinubu was equally
the Governor of Lagos.
“I also discovered from my findings in
EFCC that the so-called petition against
Mrs. Saraki was personally given to
Lamorde by Tinubu under the guise that
he was submitting the petition on behalf
of the APC leadership to punish Saraki for
working against the party’s leadership on
the choice of National Assembly leaders.
This was followed by a promise to help
secure a second term for Lamorde as
EFCC chairman.”
The controversial Benue State politician,
who once called for military coup few
years after the return of democracy,
expressed his concern that EFCC “is again
being dragged into the political arena to
settle political scores like some years
ago.”
But when SUNDAY PUNCH contacted
Tinubu’s Media Adviser, Mr. Sunday Dare,
he said, “No one should pay Senator Waku
any attention. We know when he is broke
and needs a quick fix.”
He added, “What he has said is fit for the
trash. No one should dignify Waku’s tales
by moonlight with any attention or ever
take him serious.
“For any serious individual with a
reputation to protect, Waku is a very poor
hire. Waku is an individual with no shred
of reputation and a political pariah in his
home state.
“Tinubu does not run or dictate to the
EFCC. And like countless others, Tinubu
had also been investigated by the EFCC
several times in the past. Tinubu has no
hand in the travails of anyone because he
is right now very busy, working with
others of like minds on how the APC
political agenda can set sail as quickly as
possible. That is the urgency of now and
not the tantrums of the likes of Waku.”
Also, some members of the House of
Representatives have kicked against
Saraki’s wife’s invitation by the EFCC, who
is billed to answer the invitation on
Tuesday.
In a statement signed by the lawmakers
representing Lokoja/Kogi Federal
Constituency, Umar Buba Jibril, and
another representing Okehi/Adavi Federal
Constituency, Muhammad Kabiru Ajanah,
on behalf of 25 others in Abuja on
Saturday, described the invitation as
“highly suspicious.”
The group said while it would continue to
encourage the EFCC to carry out its legal
mandate, it was optimistic that the highly
professional anti-graft body, “will not lend
itself as a tool to propagate the political
agenda of any person or group.”
The lawmakers added that they held
strongly that the days of using the EFCC
to harass and intimidate political
opponents were gone, warning that, “We
must never return to that dark and
dangerous side in our polity.”
Several telephone calls, emails and SMS
messages to the spokesman of the EFCC,
Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, on Saturday for his
response to the allegation were not
replied.
However, an Abuja-based Non-
Governmental Organisation, Society for
Exemplary Leadership and Transparency,
in a statement issued in Abuja on
Saturday, dismissed the Like Minds
Senators’ political insinuation into the
invitation of Mrs Saraki by the EFCC.
The group, in the statement signed by
Mr. Emmanuel Johnson, asked why the
senators could see the invitation as one
from a legally constituted agency of the
state instead of their “parochial angle.”
It said, “It is now clearer than before that
this set of senators are, indeed, hindrance
to transparent governance promised
Nigerians by the APC, and they will
scuttle legislations and policies design to
enthrone accountability and
transparency.”
The NGO reminded the senators that it
would have been more altruistic if they
had also questioned a similar invitation of
the daughter of the late former President
Umaru Yar’Adua and wife of a former
Kebbi State Governor, Hajia Zainab
Dakingari by the EFCC.
“In view of these, we hasten to ask: why
were you silent and did not mention
‘political motivation’ when, recently, other
former state governors such as Murtala
Nyako (Adamawa) and Sule Lamido
(Jigawa) were invited to account for their
years in office?” The statement added.
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Re: Tinubu Behind Toyin Saraki’s EFCC Ordeal — Sen. Waku by seyfou: 6:14am On Jul 26, 2015 |
FTC!!! |
Re: Tinubu Behind Toyin Saraki’s EFCC Ordeal — Sen. Waku by kamair237(m): 6:26am On Jul 26, 2015 |
My fellow Nigerian..... Pls leave Tinubu alone..... It isn't funny anymore...... |
Re: Tinubu Behind Toyin Saraki’s EFCC Ordeal — Sen. Waku by softvio(m): 6:32am On Jul 26, 2015 |
Na wow for tinubu |
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