The Media Office of former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of abusing its prosecutorial powers following an attempt to get the ex-governor arrested on Wednesday.
In a statement by his media office on Thursday, Bello described the EFCC’s activities against him as “nothing but a desperate political witch-hunt”.
“Having failed woefully to achieve their motive of national embarrassment with the critical questions that greeted their earlier allegations that the former Governor converted over N80 billion Kogi State funds to personal use in September 2015, even before he became Governor, masterminds of this unending persecution have hurriedly repackaged their script, this time dragging the name of the EFCC further in the mud,” the statement partly read.
“In this particular one, they tried to correct their initial blunder by saying that about N80 billion was now stolen in February 2016, arguably in less than three weeks after he assumed office for the first time as Governor of Kogi State on January 27, 2016!
“Looking at the curious and endless scenarios of duplicated charges, cross-charges, counter and frivolous charges by the EFCC against former Governor Yahaya Bello, it has become crystal clear that the whole onslaught is nothing but a desperate political witch-hunt of the immediate past Governor of Kogi State.”
His media office then drew the attention of President Bola Tinubu to the development, saying that the alleged abuse of court processes and prosecutorial powers by the EFCC was assuming a dangerous dimension.
