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Otamendi99:Your hypocrisy is so glaring |
’ The ruling contrasts with long line of judicial decisions asking courts to exercise restraints in stopping anti-corruption agencies from carrying out their statutory duties, and calls back to mind a 2024 landmark judgement of the Supreme Court affirming the agencies investigative powers. The Federal High Court in Ibadan has restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from proceeding with its planned investigation into the finances of the Oyo State Government, ruling that the anti-graft agency’s request amounted to a speculative “fishing expedition” rather than a lawful investigation based on specific allegations. Delivering judgement on Wednesday in suit FHC/IB/CS/61/2025 filed by the Oyo State Government, Justice Nkeonye Maha held that although the EFCC possesses statutory powers to investigate financial crimes, such powers must be exercised within the limits of the Constitution and the rule of law. FIRST BANK AD Do you live in Ogijo The court consequently set aside the commission’s letter to the state Accountant General on 2 June 2025, which sought extensive financial records from the Oyo State Government, ruling that any request for information must be reasonable and linked to identifiable allegations of wrongdoing. Ms Maha held that Section 38 of the EFCC Act empowers the commission to obtain information only for the investigation of offences under the Act and does not authorise speculative or blanket inquiries into government finances. According to the judgement, the EFCC’s request was too broad and lacked the specificity required to justify such an extensive demand for official records. The judge, according to the statement issued by the Special Adviser on Media to Oyo State Governor Makinde, Sulaimon Olarewaju, said the EFCC’s proposed investigation into Oyo State’s finances was speculative and amounted to a fishing expedition. “His Lordship noted that the constitutional rights of the plaintiffs to fair hearing could not be trampled upon under the guise of investigation,” Mr Olarewaju said. “The Oyo State Government instituted the suit after receiving the EFCC’s letter to the state Accountant General on 2 June 2025, demanding, among other things, copies of all contracts involving the state and details of all transactions and payments made to contractors from 2021 to the date of the letter.” The plaintiffs, the Governor of Oyo State, the Attorney General and the Accountant General argued that the commission’s request was oppressive, unreasonable and excessively wide, given the volume of government contracts executed during the period. Represented by the Attorney General, Abiodun Aikomo, the state maintained that while the EFCC has investigative powers, those powers are subject to constitutional safeguards and cannot override citizens’ right to fair hearing. The government further argued that anti-corruption investigations must be evidence-driven and based on identifiable allegations rather than broad requests covering several years of government transactions. According to the statement, court documents showed that before approaching the court, the state government had written to the EFCC asking it to identify the contractors or companies under investigation so that relevant documents could be produced. “The government subsequently wrote to the EFCC, requesting the commission to specify the contractors or companies under investigation so that appropriate documents could be provided. When the EFCC failed to respond, the state filed the suit.” In its defence, the EFCC relied on Section 38 of the EFCC Act, arguing that the provision empowers the commission to demand information from any person, public authority, corporation or organisation without hindrance. EFCC’s lawyer, I.G. Ojibor, argued that the provision entitled the commission to obtain the requested documents as part of its investigative mandate. However, Ms Maha rejected that interpretation, holding that the commission’s powers are not unlimited and must be exercised within constitutional boundaries. The judge further held that the constitutional right to fair hearing cannot be undermined under the guise of investigation and that law enforcement agencies must demonstrate a legitimate investigative basis before compelling the production of documents. “In conclusion, Justice Maha ruled in favour of the Oyo State Government, set aside the EFCC’s letter dated 2 June 2025, and declared that any request by the commission must be reasonable and tied to specific allegations.” No previous court judgement, more allegations by groups The ruling comes despite the absence of any known past charges or court findings against the Oyo State Government over financial misappropriation. Although the EFCC reportedly sought access to the state’s contract and payment records dating back to 2021, it did not identify any specific contractor, transaction or alleged offence under investigation, a key issue that informed the court’s decision. Recently, the Makinde administration has faced political allegations over its management of public funds from opposition figures and pressure groups, while some civic organisations have criticised the state’s fiscal transparency and public access to financial records. The state government has consistently denied allegations of financial misconduct and maintained that it publishes its audited financial statements and other fiscal reports in line with legal requirements. READ ALSO: Makinde seeks UN scrutiny of Oyo school abduction, demands full account of 56-day kidnap New twist to state officials’ objection to EFCC probe Wednesday’s judgement contrasts with a long line of judicial decisions urging court not to stop statutory bodies from performing the functions for which they are established, as probe does not amount to a criminal conviction. It also introduces a new dimension to the arguments over the limits of EFCC’s investigative powers, coming two years after a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court affirmed that federal anti-corruption agencies, including the EFCC and the ICPC, can investigate and prosecute persons for crimes committed at both the state and federal levels. In the judgement prompted by a suit filed by 19 state governments including Oyo in 2024 principally seeking the scrapping of the anti-corruption agencies, the Supreme Court rebuked the plaintiffs, saying their legal action was driven by selfishness. The suit, which activated the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction, followed a now familiar pattern whereby officials rush to court to seek protection from probe at the slightest move by an anti-corruption agency to open investigation. In the 2024 judgement affirming the establishment of the anti-corruption agencies and their investigative and prosecutorial powers, the Supreme Court held that the first plaintiff (Kogi State) “opened the can of worms and skeletons in its cupboard” of its selfish intention with its clai that the EFCC had invited and investigated officials of the state government. The court said the claim was the height of “the selfish reasons of the plaintiffs’ suit,” adding that Kogi offered itself as a “puppet” for corrupt practices by leading the charge against the anti-corruption agencies https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/897561-court-stops-efccs-planned-probe-of-oyo-finances-faults-fishing-expedition.html |
Judemarco31:Not just their founder, but also their Grand Patron. |
Hussein035:Why wait until after the 2027 general election? What is stopping Tinubu from revisiting Atiku's corruption case and scrutinizing it today? |
Parachoko:Let me get this straight: you're implying Tinubu handed over $460,000 to the U.S. government as a charitable donation, not because the funds were alleged to be tied to narcotics trafficking? |
Tenses:Absolutely. 💯 |
That's a knockout punch. Truly, if it were China and Tinubu had been found with funds that were proceeds of narcotics trafficking, we wouldn't be talking about Tinubu today. He would have been long gone. |
Ttalk:What is stopping him from restructuring Nigeria today? He still has approximately 10 months left in his tenure. Why should restructuring be premised on winning the 2027 election? |
Former presidential aide, Laolu Akande, has said President Bola Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar both face long-standing corruption allegations that are unlikely to give either side a decisive advantage as political campaigns ahead of the 2027 general election gather momentum.https://dailytrust.com/2027-both-tinubu-atiku-have-corruption-baggage-akande/
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Amotolongbo:Good question |
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BATified2023:One can only teach sense to another person if the person doing the teaching has some sense to begin with. |
LegendHero:Tinubu don spôill your life by removing your brain. You no fit think properly again
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BATified2023:How old are you? |
Otamendi99:Have you also called out the Tinubu administration for the non-implementation of local government financial autonomy, especially in Osun state where the local government funds have withheld for over two years and counting If you haven’t, then accusing others of selective accountability while ignoring current actions is exactly the hypocrisy, blame games, and shadow chasing you claim to oppose. Accountability should not be applied only to previous governments when convenient. Government is a continuum, and every administration must answer for its own decisions, policies, and failures Do that and you will be taken seriously |
Guestmale:The irony is that you are accusing me of defending the indefensible while actually doing exactly that , defending a regime’s attempt to rewrite history and shift responsibility through blame games and shadow chasing. Holding one person or one administration responsible while conveniently ignoring three successive governments and 16 years of opportunity to implement the pension reform act is not accountability; it is selective memory and shadow chasing The real question remains: why is this Tinubu government still spending more energy searching for who to blame than explaining what it has done with the powers and resources it inherited? |
Guestmale:That is exactly the question you should be asking the successive governments between 2007 and 2023 before Tinubu took over. Are 16 years under Yar'Adua, Jonathan, and Buhari not enough time to implement, improve, or amend the Pension Reform Act if it had shortcomings? Government is a continuum. You cannot ignore three administrations and 16 years of responsibility, then suddenly make Atiku the only person accountable for the none implementation of the pension reform act I am not holding brief for Atiku, neither am I absolving him of responsibility. I am simply exposing the hypocrisy, blame games, and shadow chasing that have become the Hallmark of Tinubu's regime |
sonofthunder:It's obvious you lack the mental capacity to comprehend my comment. I never said Atiku and Obasanjo had no responsibility. My point is simple: government is a continuum. If they should be blamed for implementation between 2004 and 2007, why did you conveniently skip Yar'Adua, Jonathan, and Buhari, who had 16 years to implement, improve, or amend the law? The irony is that you Tinubu supporters credit every achievement in Lagos by successive governments to Tinubu's blueprint because government is a continuum. But when it's the Pension Reform Act enacted in 2004 by the Obasanj/Atiku regime, that principle suddenly disappears. So answer the question: why did you skip the three administrations after 2007? |
Fake agency originated from Buhari government—Budget Office explains PFIPC allocation •Explains how PFIPC was allocated money in the budget The Budget Office of the Federation (BOF) yesterday explained that the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), which the presidency declared as fake and is currently being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, had its origin in the last administration of late President Muhammadu Buhari. The Director-General of the Budget Office, Mr. Tanimu Yakubu who provided the explanation in a statement, after appearing before members of the House of Representatives, in Abuja said the PFIPC’s institutional origin was premised on the Presidential Economic Advisory Council inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 9, 2019. He also explained how the fake agency was allocated money in the 2026 budget. His words, “PEAC/PFIPC did not enter the 2026 Budget merely because it asked for funds. The Council had its origin in the Presidential Economic Advisory Council inaugurated during the administration of the late President Muhammadu Buhari on October 9, 2019. By the time preparation of the 2026 Budget began, official instruments had already been issued by the institutions charged with those functions. “The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation had assigned an administrative code to the PFIPC. The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation had approved an authorised establishment and a recruitment waiver. The applicable public-service salary structure also existed. These instruments did not come from the Budget Office. They came to it. “The Budget Office did not create the Council. It did not assign its code. It did not approve its establishment. It did not grant its recruitment waiver. It received official instruments and did what the law required of it: it measured their fiscal effect.” Mr. Tanimu further explained that the Council submitted a personnel estimate of N3.850 billion for the 2026 Fiscal Year and that his Office had to reduce that figure to N802.978 million, using the authorised establishment, the approved recruitment waiver, the applicable public-service salary structure and the extant costing methodology According to the D-G, “Council later submitted a personnel estimate of N3,850,935,000.00. That estimate did not form the basis of the Budget Office’s recommendation. The Budget Office disregarded it and made an independent calculation using only the authorised establishment, the approved recruitment waiver, the applicable public-service salary structure and the extant costing methodology. “That calculation produced N802,978,783.00. This was not a concession to the Council. It was the Budget Office’s own fiscal judgment. It was the amount placed in the Executive Budget proposal and later appropriated. Financial Clearance closed gate against Council Mr Yakubu said that the Council could not receive the approved funds for personnel because its promoter, Prince Adeyemi Adeniyi could not secure Financial Clearance, an instrument that confirms that necessary fiscal and regulatory had been met. He said, “Financial Clearance is the point at which a personnel provision may begin to acquire legal force as expenditure. It is not a routine letter. It is the confirmation that the fiscal and regulatory conditions for recruitment have been met. Until it is issued, the figure remains in the budget. It does not create staff. It does not open payroll. It does not produce salary. The Budget Office did not issue Financial Clearance for PEAC/PFIPC because the conditions were incomplete. “The 2026 Appropriation Bill did not become law until Presidential Assent on 31 March 2026. Before that date, the Budget Office could cost the proposal. It could not grant final Financial Clearance against a bill that had not yet become law. “After assent, a further condition remained outstanding. The National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission had not confirmed that the proposed staffing and remuneration arrangements complied with its prescribed template and the approved public-service compensation framework. “The Budget Office could calculate the cost. It could not open the gate. There was therefore no Financial Clearance. There was no lawful recruitment. There was no payroll enrollment. There was no salary payment.” The D-G added, “The personnel provision was N802,978,783.00. It represented 61.63 per cent of the total appropriation of N1,302,978,783.00. It has sometimes been described as though the Council could have received the whole amount and spent it at will. That description is false. “Personnel appropriations are not paid to agencies as lump sums. After every legal condition has been met, salaries are paid month by month. The money moves electronically into the designated bank accounts of verified employees enrolled on the Federal Government payroll. “The institution does not receive the annual personnel provision as cash under its control. Even in a lawful process, the Council would not have received N802,978,783.00 in one payment. The money would have gone over twelve months to individual employees. That process never began. No Financial Clearance was issued. No recruitment took place. No payroll record was created. No salary became due. Not one kobo of the personnel provision could lawfully have been drawn. Not one kobo was drawn. There is no personnel expenditure to recover because there was no personnel expenditure.” The PFIPC controversy became public on June 11, 2026, when the Chief of Staff to the president, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, declared the Council as fake and petitioned the law enforcement agencies. However, at a press conference on June 26, the Director General of the PFIPC, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi faulted the presidency’s disclaimer. He alleged that Gbajabiamila received N400 million through a proxy and demanded an additional N200 million to secure his appointment — an allegation which the Chief of Staff denied and has sued him to court claiming N15b as damages for defamation. Adeyemi is currently in custody after he was arrested by the police in connection with the PFIPC scandal and alleged forgery. Before his arrest, Adeyemi claimed he personally approached officials of the budget office to seek the inclusion of the Council in the federal government’s budget. Recently, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) confirmed that it opened two domiciliary accounts linked to the PFIPC on the directive of the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF). The apex bank, however, said the accounts, one denominated in United States dollars and the other in British pounds sterling, were never funded or operated https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/07/fake-agency-originated-from-buhari-government-budget-office/
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jmoore:The laptop he is using is old, rusty, and faulty. Those are obviously pre-2015 Amaechi/APC-donated laptops. |
BATified2023:Calling people wailers doesn't change the facts. Governments have always executed projects, and contractors have worked day and night long before Tinubu became president. Celebrating overnight construction as if it was invented under Tinubu is comedy, not an argument. |
Justnation:He is not just dumb; he is a man completely detached from reason. Every governor has the right to support whoever they choose. What is undemocratic is arrogating to yourself the authority to speak for an entire region and claiming that everyone has resolved to support a particular candidate. That's not leadership, it's arrogance masquerading as consensus. |
Op is obviously typing rubbish |
seunmsg:seunmsg, sometimes I genuinely wonder how you reason. The Pension Reform Act was enacted in 2004 under the Obasanjo administration, when Atiku was Vice President. That administration left office in 2007. Since then, Nigeria has had three presidents, Yar'Adua, Jonathan, and Buhari, before Tinubu. Curiously, neither you nor the APC blamed any of those administrations for the shortcomings you're now attributing to Atiku. Now that Tinubu is president, your argument suddenly becomes, Atiku enacted the law but failed to implement it. If implementation is your standard, why did you skip the three presidents after 2007 when Atiku as vice president left office? Stop this ridiculous blame games its becoming stale |
The OP was obviously born under the Tinubu administration. Otherwise, he wouldn't be celebrating contractors working day and night as though it's the first time in history. |
The presidential flag bearer of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has waved off the recent insinuation and innuendo by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in respect of Federal Government Pension backlog, as unnecessary ghosting and futile political shadow chasing by an inept APC-led administration.https://independent.ng/we-enacted-pension-reform-act-2004-stop-shadow-chasing-atiku-tells-tinubu/
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Nigeria Democratic Congress Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Abdulmumin Abdulsalam, slammed ex-APC chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, for dismissing the NDC joint ticket of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso. Abdulsalam told Punch that Ganduje had lost popularity and relevance in Kano and was technically sidelined in APC, adding he once served as Kwankwaso’s deputy. Abdulsalam said Obi’s about six million votes in the 2023 presidential election showed national appeal, and he expects Obi to win more northern votes in 2027. The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has responded to the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, over his dismissal of the presidential ticket of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso. Naija News recalls that Ganduje had claimed that Obi and Kwankwaso lacked the records to challenge the incumbent adminstration in the 2027 election. Reacting in an interview with Punch, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the NDC, Abdulmumin Abdulsalam, dismissed Ganduje’s comments as inconsequential, saying the former APC chairman had lost political relevance in Kano. He said, “I think Ganduje is just blabbing. But we in NDC believe that when we get to the bridge, we shall cross it. And we also believe that politics is about proof of your popularity. “Ganduje, as of today, is no longer popular in Kano. In fact, in his own party, he has been technically sidelined and has started losing ground in the ruling party. “Don’t forget, Ganduje was his deputy back then, meaning that he was instrumental to Ganduje becoming the governor of Kano State. “So no child can claim to be a bigger father than his father. No matter how highly educated and highly connected, he cannot have the wisdom of that father. “So, if Ganduje is now claiming to be wiser than Kwankwaso, I think he is just playing to the gallery. He is not being serious as a politician. “We are not here to banter or exchange words with him. What we believe is that when the election comes, we will display our joker and win the election in Kano any day because of the way we organise ourselves.” He also argued that Obi’s electoral performance in the 2023 presidential election demonstrated his national appeal and predicted that the former Anambra governor would attract even more votes in 2027. “Now, coming to the NDC joint ticket of Kwankwaso and Peter Obi, the whole world is aware of the six million votes or thereabout that Obi garnered in the last election. Again, the state of affairs in the country wasn’t as bad as it is today. “The masses voted massively out of anger in favour of Peter Obi. So I can assure you that with the current state of things in the country, more votes will be recorded for him in the northern part of Nigeria,” Abdulsalam noted https://www./2026/07/23/bigger-wiser-kwankwaso-ndc-ganduje/ |
Governments the world over are judged by how their citizens fare. Have people's lives and standard of living improved? Are fuel, gas, food, and essential services more affordable? How many jobs have been created? Has electricity improved? Are Nigerians safer today? Those are the yardsticks by which governments are measured. Yet here we are, celebrating promises that haven't even been fulfilled as though they were achievements. SMH. |
The dead tell no tales Xx |
NIGERIAJAGAJAGA:This might be the lover.
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