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A frontline politician and former Vice Chairman of Arewa
Consultative Forum (ACF) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC,
Senator JKN Waku on Saturday, pointedly accused a National Leader of the APC,
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu of being the mastermind of a petition over which the
wife of the Senate President, Mrs Toyin Saraki, has been invited by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
exploring his personal relationship with the EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, to
embarrass and torment fellow party members as well as overheat the polity.
According to him, “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.”
said: “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.
term for Lamorde as EFCC chairman.”
being dragged into the political arena to settle political scores like some
years ago.
our leaders that no individual’s ambition to create a fiefdom for himself
should be allowed to drag our party into unnecessary controversies and
endlessly overheat the polity.
“The party has done its best to send lawmakers to the
National Assembly to work for the nation and no particular political party, and
as such, they should allow our Senators and Reps members to settle down and
work in the overall interest of the nation, which is far and above every other
sectional interest.
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