Moment President Tinubu Orders Yahaya Bello To Submit Himself To EFCC For Probe; See What Shettima Discloses
Kashim Shettima, Nigeria’s vice president, has revealed President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s stance on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) activities.
Speaking at the second edition of The Chronicle Roundtable in Abuja on Thursday, May 2, the vice president stated that Tinubu is resolved to combat corruption in the country without fear or favouritism. The vice president also stated that the administration was doing all possible to lower the country’s unemployment rate According to Channels TV, the event focused on how Tinubu’s administration wanted to alter the country through its economic and social policies. Mohammed Idris, the minister of information, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Shettima’s special adviser on political matters, and Shamsudeen Usman, the former minister of finance, budget, and national planning, all attended the event.
This comes amid calls for President Bola Tinubu to shelter Kogi state’s former governor from the EFCC Investigation. Segun Showunmi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, recently urged the president not to destroy ties with the North by allowing the anti-graft agency to Investigate the APC’s top leader. Showunmi asserted that Yoruba politicians were accused of exploiting and dumping politicians from the North, and that only former President Olusegun Obasanjo had kept his end of the agreement.
However, in an exclusive interview with Legit. ng, Oladotun Hassan, a Yoruba elder, opposed Showunmi’s proposal, claiming that Obasanjo screwed up Yoruba values by pursuing a third term in violation of Nigeria’s constitution. He said: “I want to defer on the premise of Showunmi that we have value for relationships, and nobody should guide us without notion.”
Speaking on the claim that Obasanjo met his side of the bargain. Hassan said: As far as Obasanjo is concerned, he messed our values up by not standing on the constitutional bargain of the country to spend almost 31 years.”