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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Campaign for Democracy has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to immediately effect a change of leadership at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, saying it has demonstrated lack of capacity under the current leadership.<\/p>\n

CD, a frontline Civil Society Organization in Nigeria, said it was unimaginable that the former governor, who the same EFCC had placed on watchlist, who the Commission enlisted security agencies in Nigeria and Interpol to help fish out, walked into the EFCC premises, waited for about three hours and no arrest or interrogation happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, they told him to go, that they would get back to him only to issue a laughable statement that he was still a wanted man,\u201d the President, Campaign for Democracy, Comrade Ifeanyi Odili, said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to him, EFCC\u2019s excuse that they couldn\u2019t arrest him because a sitting governor accompanied him to their office is the main reason Olukoyede should be asked to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people had castigated this man for long even though many others believed the case was mainly that of persecution. In all of this, CD did not dabble into the matter. Now that the matter has taken a dramatic turn, one that touches on democratic principles and affects the country\u2019s image, it is pertinent for well meaning Nigerians to lend their voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssociates of the former governor had been raising the alarm that his life is at risk. With the events of yesterday (Wednesday 18th September, 2024), any right thinking person would conclude that his life must be truly at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou said you couldn\u2019t arrest him or interrogate him in your office because his governor was there, yet you went, at night, to the official residence of the same governor in Abuja to start firing gunshots as if Nigeria is a lawless society. This is unacceptable,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

The Campaign for Democracy said, in saner climes, the EFCC boss would have been fired the next morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man, Yahaya Bello, has fulfilled all righteousness. With the turn of events that culminated in a show of shame last night, it appears the EFCC has an ulterior motive definitely different from the fight against corruption,\u201d the CSO submitted.<\/p>\n

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