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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