Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dismissed claims that its chairman, Ola Olukoyede, met with an incumbent Governor and his predecessor 48 hours before they defected to All Progressives Congress (APC).
Gatekeepers News roports that the claims were made by Paul Ibe, spokesman to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday.
Ibe alleged that the meeting occurred at a government lodge in a South-South state and was attended by the Solicitor-General of the Federation. However, he did not name the Governors involved.
In response, Dele Oyewale, Olukoyede remains strictly non-partisan and has consistently reiterated the Commission’s commitment to political neutrality.
He said, “ However, his allegations of the Executive Chairman EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, and Solicitor General of the Federation’s alleged meeting with an unnamed governor forty-eight hours before his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are patently fabricated and in bad taste.”
“Olukoyede has stressed it at several fora that he is apolitical and the EFCC totally wired against partisan tendencies.”
Kamarudeen Ogundele, media aide to Lateef Fagbemi, the attorney-general of the federation, also dismissed the claim, saying they are based on Ibe’s imagination.
The statement reads, “Although he (Ibe) failed to mention their names, the discerning members of the public know those he could have been referring to.”
“However, we wish to state categorically that the allegation is from the pit of hell, and at best, a figment of the imagination of Mr Ibe.”
“We know as a fact that the EFCC chairman and the Solicitor General of the Federation never met any serving or former governor as alleged by him.”
