Waku Accuses Tinubu Of Masterminding Toyin Saraki's Invitation By EFCC
Culled From ThisDay:
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).
The APC chieftain decried a situation where Tinubu will be
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.”
Waku, who is also an ACF member of Board of Trustees (BOT),
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.
"This was followed by a promise to help secure a second
term for Lamorde as EFCC chairman."
Senator Waku said he is highly disturbed that EFCC is again
being dragged into the political arena to settle political scores like some
years ago.
Waku said: "I want to use this opportunity to caution
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.
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