Tinubu behind Toyin Saraki’s EFCC ordeal — Sen.
Waku
JULY 26, 2015 : FRIDAY OLOKOR
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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
A former Vice-Chairman and member, Board of
Trustees of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Senator
Joseph Waku, has accused the National Leader of
the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, of allegedly masterminding the petition that
has changed the wife of the Senate President, Mrs.
Toyin Saraki, to be invited by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission.
According to him, the decision was followed by a
promise to help secure a second term for the EFCC
Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde.
But Tinubu said Waku should not be taken
seriously, as he was broke and needed “a quick
fix.”
Waku, a leader of the APC, in a statement sent to
journalists in Abuja on Saturday, described a
situation where Tinubu would be allegedly using
his personal relationship with the EFCC Chairman
“to embarrass and torment fellow party members”
as unfortunate.
Waku, in the statement, claimed that his findings
showed that Tinubu personally gave the petition to
Lamorde under the guise that he was submitting it
on behalf of the APC leadership to punish Saraki
for working against the party’s leadership on the
choice of National Assembly leaders.
He said, “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.
“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.”
The controversial Benue State politician, who once
called for military coup few years after the return of
democracy, expressed his concern that EFCC “is
again being dragged into the political arena to
settle political scores like some years ago.”
But when SUNDAY PUNCH contacted Tinubu’s
Media Adviser, Mr. Sunday Dare, he said, “No one
should pay Senator Waku any attention. We know
when he is broke and needs a quick fix.”
He added, “What he has said is fit for the trash. No
one should dignify Waku’s tales by moonlight with
any attention or ever take him serious.
“For any serious individual with a reputation to
protect, Waku is a very poor hire. Waku is an
individual with no shred of reputation and a
political pariah in his home state.
“Tinubu does not run or dictate to the EFCC. And
like countless others, Tinubu had also been
investigated by the EFCC several times in the past.
Tinubu has no hand in the travails of anyone
because he is right now very busy, working with
others of like minds on how the APC political
agenda can set sail as quickly as possible. That is
the urgency of now and not the tantrums of the
likes of Waku.”
Also, some members of the House of
Representatives have kicked against Saraki’s
wife’s invitation by the EFCC, who is billed to
answer the invitation on Tuesday.
In a statement signed by the lawmakers
representing Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency,
Umar Buba Jibril, and another representing Okehi/
Adavi Federal Constituency, Muhammad Kabiru
Ajanah, on behalf of 25 others in Abuja on
Saturday, described the invitation as “highly
suspicious.”
The group said while it would continue to
encourage the EFCC to carry out its legal mandate,
it was optimistic that the highly professional anti-
graft body, “will not lend itself as a tool to
propagate the political agenda of any person or
group.”
The lawmakers added that they held strongly that
the days of using the EFCC to harass and
intimidate political opponents were gone, warning
that, “We must never return to that dark and
dangerous side in our polity.”
Several telephone calls, emails and SMS messages
to the spokesman of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson
Uwujaren, on Saturday for his response to the
allegation were not replied.
However, an Abuja-based Non-Governmental
Organisation, Society for Exemplary Leadership and
Transparency, in a statement issued in Abuja on
Saturday, dismissed the Like Minds Senators’
political insinuation into the invitation of Mrs Saraki
by the EFCC.
The group, in the statement signed by Mr.
Emmanuel Johnson, asked why the senators could
see the invitation as one from a legally constituted
agency of the state instead of their “parochial
angle.”
It said, “It is now clearer than before that this set of
senators are, indeed, hindrance to transparent
governance promised Nigerians by the APC, and
they will scuttle legislations and policies design to
enthrone accountability and transparency.”
The NGO reminded the senators that it would have
been more altruistic if they had also questioned a
similar invitation of the daughter of the late former
President Umaru Yar’Adua and wife of a former
Kebbi State Governor, Hajia Zainab Dakingari by
the EFCC.
“In view of these, we hasten to ask: why were you
silent and did not mention ‘political motivation’
when, recently, other former state governors such
as Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Sule Lamido
(Jigawa) were invited to account for their years in
office?” The statement added.

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