Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nuhu Ribadu, has hinted that the anti-graft agency will probe former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, over bribery allegations levelled against him while he was in office.
Ribadu, who recently returned to the APC, stated this in an interview with Punch Newspaper, maintaining that the former President will be probed if evidences are produced.
Recall, that Obasanjo was accused of distributing the sum of N50 million to legislators, to alter the constitution in order to achieve his 3rd term bid that would have kept him in office for another term, after serving two terms as President.
Speaking further, Ribadu added: “There were a couple of other cases that I was building before I was removed from the EFCC. The money was put in preparation for it (third term), but we stopped it. We went after the bankers and blocked accounts even before anything happened.
“I hope that those who said they were given money will come out and give details, so that people will be prosecuted for it.This will help law enforcement agents to do their work; criminal cases don’t have time limits”.
The former EFCC boss, also refuted claims that he was pandering to the whims of former President Obasanjo, and avoiding to probe the bribe allegation.
He said: ”You cannot stop people from complaining, especially if they were victims of your work, but who are those people? Where are they? I need to know them. For over a decade, I have been making the same noise. Let people come and tell me that while I was working, I did this or that to pander to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo, and I will reply.“As of the time we did the work, even though it was a PDP government, 90 percent of those we charged to court were PDP members. I don’t think they were all enemies of the President. Most of the works we did were transparent and were open for all to see.“We had evidences which we took to court. How, for God’s sake, can anyone say all the works we did were because of this and that? We did not hide anything from the public. People who tried, but failed to corrupt or blackmail someone, would always say something; it is left for Nigerians to look at it.“There is nowhere in the world that you will fight corruption, that people will not complain. They will always look for a reason to say something. In our own case, it was exceptional, because most of them were PDP members and they were close to the President.”
Meanwhile the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, has been accused of a one-sided corruption fight, which has severally been refuted by the APC.
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