Help! My party members have hijacked EFCC - Governor Yari declares
- Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state has been in the eyes of the storm over allegations of diverting $3m from the Paris Club loan refund
- The governor who has now reacted, accused members of his own party, the APC, of hijacking the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
Embattled Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state has cried out saying Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been hijacked.
The New Telegraph reports that the governor, who was recently accused of diverting the sum of $3 million from the Paris Club refund into the construction of a 100-room hotel in Lagos, said those who lost out in the last governorship election in Ondo state were behind his travails.
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According to him, those who lost out in the election held in November 2016 were behind the alarm about the alleged missing fund.
Yari says the battle is against Buhari's anti-corruption drive
He said those raising the alarm were not actually targeting him, but the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari.
NAIJ.com learnt that the governor recalled how the NGF clashed with former President Goodluck Jonathan during the last administration.
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According to him, the governors who caused the rift between Jonathan and the NGF were those who went to the former president with information meant to cause problems simply because they wanted undue advantage.
“Some governors were going to tell the former president all sort of things, truth, lies and what have you, thereby making the former president angry with some other governors,” he reportedly said.
NAIJ.com had reported that the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Monday, May 15, said no money was stolen or embezzled from the Paris-London Club refunds to states or from any other source.
The report said that the Head, Media and Public Affairs at NGF Secretariat, Abulrazaque Barkindo, said this in a statement in Abuja.
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