President Muhammadu Buhari may have given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the nod to probe ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan.

According to The Punch, President Buhari’s special assistant on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, in a chat on Friday, March 11, noted that there was no secret agreement between the present and past presidents to exempt Jonathan from the list of corrupt people to be probed by this administration.

“The President does not teleguide the EFCC in any way,” Adesina said while answering questions on whether the EFCC would seek the consent of President Buhari before probing Jonathan.

Speaking in the same vein, Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, told The Punch that, “there is no secret pact between President Buhari and any past President.

“If you know or understand him, President Buhari is not the kind of person who will go into secret agreements. He is open about everything he does.

“The war against corruption is open-ended. Nobody knows how it will end.”

Shehu explained further that the war against corruption in the country is not a witch hunt.

He said: “But the President is not on a witch hunt. If you remember his acceptance speech after being announced as the winner of the 2015 general elections, he said without any equivocation that he would not victimise or subject anyone to witch hunt.

“One thing very clear from the way he has carried on with the war against corruption is that past officials of government have a window to return looted funds to avoid investigation and trials which may be drawn out and sometimes inimical to the exercise.

“People can help themselves and help the country without being noisy about anything.

“The President is aware that he is under watch, locally and internationally, in his handling of the war against corruption.

“Whatever international support he will get will depend on how open and effective his government is in carrying out the anti-graft war.

“To that extent, the war against corruption knows neither friend nor foe.”

The body language of the anti-graft agency had initially suggested that they may be reluctant to bring in ex-president for questioning over multi-billion dollar corruption allegations, especially the $2.1billion arms deal.

http://www.punchng.com/corruption-efcc-free-to-probe-jonathan-presidency/

Nigerian are watching in 3D

Ok now

Probing Jonathan?? It seems APC wants to bury their whole body alive Nationwide.

I wish them good luck as Gej remains the only one that can tell the world how the arms deal was a proposed scam and a cover up agenda to hoodwink the world that APC Is fighting corruption.

I believe Jonathan is preparing very well for the day to come. We gonna know who gets the shame.

Well let's see how this goes..

Probe.....probe....probe

And its almost a year already
Nothing on ground
No economic plans
No project to commence
Just junketting around

Zombies will applaud this wild goose chase
Sai baba is working
Lubbishhhhhh

Hehehehe Buhari no like imsef o

Bubu is on a ghost chase

about time. the skin head has been walking around like a god and his fans have spraying spittle everywhere almost going ecstatic at the mere mention of his name.

I hope he is found guilty and jailed for a long time.

haaa to probe who? Southern abacha?
chai

mak i rush comment because dis one must mak FP.
gud riddance to bad rubbish of GEJ!

May or may have not??

Call me when you are sure.

Nigeria and speculative journalism

is that ok.......

That ebele bastard deserves it sha! Ride on mr magu!!!

Probe being given 100% concentration while the economy gets worse while power generation slides to all time low such that the demand for candle and kerosene lamps have increased.

Of what importance is this day-to-day probe when it's not of any benefit at the moment??

Barack Obama didn't spend his first year probing looted finds but focused on revamping the US economy.

Why is this dullard hell bent on impoverishing Nigerians?

Remember the difference between you and Jonathan in 2015 election was just mere 3 million which u rigged in your North.So Jonathan still have 12million fans against your 15million.We are watching.

Political talk!

Baba get the lever?

If them try any stupid tin, they should be ready to finance that budget with cocoa and tomato farming. By the time the whole oil from SS is blocked them go know say 5% people are more important in this country. Just drop in oil price, we are already down economically, only God knows what will happen if the whole pipelines are blasted.

I see the end of Nigeria

Buhari can't probe Jonathan while sparing other past presidents.

Buhari lacks the balls. is Lula da Silva not facing same in Brazil? Buhari is a pretender!

Mohammed mosi of Nigeria will soon hit the rock.

If he likes he can keep on probing till 2019

EasternActivist:
Probing Jonathan?? It seems APC wants to bury their whole body alive Nationwide.

I wish them good luck as Gej remains the only one that can tell the world how the arms deal was a scam and a cover up to hoodwink the world that APC Is fighting corruption.

I believe Jonathan is preparing very well for the day to come. We gonna know who gets the shame.

Abeg wetin no be scam for ur syd.. .everything na scam,witchunt....you can as well say there was no corruption during the last regime and that all international bodies saying nigeria was corrupt was lieing

Na probe we go chop?
Abi na probe wan solve our monumental problems in this failed country?
What are the results from the previous probes? (nothing meaningful)

Buhari and his team should start working and producing tangible results already, and stop acting like cretineous dunderheads!

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90% of those who commented above never read the article, else they would have observed that there is no where in the article where PMB has told the EFCC to probe GEJ. How does Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina saying that PMB had not had a secret pact with GEJ translate to PMB giving EFCC go ahead to probe GEJ?
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The writer or OP may have been mischievous in coining the Title, but the readers are even more indolent & pathetic. Victims of prejudice & poor education.

It is clear from all revelations so far that Jonathan was very corrupt. I knew it would come to this in the end.

Buhari has no such powers to probe Jonathan.

Ioannes:
about time. the skin head has been walking around like a god and his fans have spraying spittle everywhere almost going ecstatic at the mere mention of his name.

I hope he is found guilty and jailed for a long time.

Bitter! GEJ is already the Hero home and abroad. Probe ko buhari ni. What are people turning this obviously non performing buhari to sef? Wake up bro direct your pain to buhari.

omofunaab:




Abeg wetin no be scam for ur syd.. ..you can as well say there was no corruption during the last regime

Gej ran the least corrupt government in the history of Nigeria.

Buhari has not yet started we are hearing of budget padding...
Meanwhile how many billions again did he use to maintain his presidential private jet for just a spec of six months?
Who initiated the TSA that buhari implemented?

Leave that thing the truth can never be subdued till eternity. It must raise its head someday and I feel the truth about APC being a party of scam is about to surface. Why not stay thrilled.